David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

That's how everyone put anything online until 10, 12 years ago when the cloud sort of took over.

So the expertise is there and can be rediscovered.

You too can learn how to operate a Linux computer.

Oh, they're beautiful.

Calming.

Amazing.

Computers are really fun.

This is actually something I've gotten into even deeper after we moved out of the cloud.

Now my next kind of tingle is that if you could move out of the cloud, can you also move out of the data center?

Personal servers have gotten really scarily quick and efficient, and personal internet connections rival what we connected data centers with just a decade or two ago.

So there's a whole community around this concept of home lapping, which is essentially installing server hardware in your own apartment, connecting it to the internet, and then

exposing that directly to the internet that harks back to those glorious days of the 90s when people building for the internet would host the actual website on their actual computer in the closet.

And I'm pretty fired up about that.

I'm doing a bunch of experiments.

I've ordered a bunch of home servers for my own apartment.

I marvel at the fact that I can get a 5 gigabit fiber connection now.

I think, do you know what?

5 gigabit, that could have taken Basecamp to...

multiple millions of MRR in the way that back then I ran the whole business on a single box with 2004 technology and probably a hundred megabit cable, like the capacity we have access to both in terms of compute and connectivity.

is something that people haven't readjusted to.