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Look how easy was the whole procedure. You just sent an email and boom next day your application's port was registered by IANA. Nowdays you must have a team of academics backed up by Google to apply for that.

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I remember applying for a Class C block of IP addresses back in 1993 was as simple as sending in a preformatted email template to InterNIC and getting your address space about twenty minutes later in a reply.

I've still got that Class C registered, but it hasn't been used in years, and I'm not entirely sure what to do with it.

You could sell, or even better lease it out

The internet was a sort of toy used by 10000 people.

Nowadays you should need 2 teams of academics backed up by 4 companies and 2 governments to change anything.

I'm not kidding. The internet of today should be like democracy: really hard and slow to change because sudden change is very disruptive.

Yeah, that's my point. It was like a playground of technologists and hackers. I wish I was born earlier to experience this magic place.

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