For the longest time I had no idea what a router was despite configuring Linux for years. This is not about a hipster who is configuring his WIFI at Starbucks so he can watch the latest news while sipping on an Espresso. This is about me, a different sort of hipster, and about the '90s when Linux was all the rage, unlike these days when it's so passe that even my grandma knows how to somewhat wield it - and I did teach my grandma, I kid you not. At least how to make new folders in GNOME and so forth. But back then I had no clue what a router was even though I was configuring IP Masquareading and adding routes to the routing table. Reason being, nobody had more than one computer in a home at a time hooked up to the modem, nobody! I still remember how elite it felt when I bought my first 4-port Ethernet NIC - I thought I was God or something. Like wow man, I can make a Linux box that can serve computers in other rooms of our family home? This was a mind blowing radical idea. Today it seems so childish and many a modern "geekstresses" might mock and bully me for this moment but it is a fact. I love 4-port NICs. It's a fetish of mine I suppose. And then one day I got a job with billion dollar equipment that serves thousands of ports of Gigabits a second.
