Title. Just imagine the possibilities of having your own “homemade internet”!
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Does your computer have a floppy drive? You might be able to find a copy of this at a secondhand store:
Take two wireless access points, connect them together, tada, you have an internet…
The thing is “the internet” is really only the sum of its parts, it’s interconnectivity is what gives its intrinsic value.
Or a LAN. Could do a WAN which itself can be interconnected over a wide area. Usually by routing over the internet but you could use something like satellite uplink or miles of dedicated cables.
But the interconnection of multiple LANS and WANS is what would make an “internet”.
So maybe 2 universities joining their own networks would be moving towards a private “internet” but I think we’d still call that a private network or a WAN.
It’s interesting to consider where the definitions change.
Could you give more details about what you mean by “homemade internet”? The first thing I thought of was just a LAN or Intranet which I see many people have already suggested but I feel like that may not be what you’re actually talking about
This could have been a really interesting question if OP hadn’t been so vague. As is, there’s too many interpretations to answer. Do they mean the physical connections? The protocols and services like IP, DNS and BGP? The world wide web, with its sites, links and search engines?
Does OP consider the Dark Web its own internet? Or a large corporate network its own internet? What about self-hosting a huge number of services in your own home?
With hookers and blackjack?
I think what you’re talking about is called a “LAN”/“Local Area Network”.
https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html?m=1
It’s doable, just needs a fair bit of hardware, time and money
Well, the Internet is connected together using routers/switches. Your own home network is a “private internet” until you pay to connect it to the big one. So if you want, nothing is stopping you from running cables to your neighbors and hooking together. But then you won’t have access to anything useful except whatever servers you guys run
Was that your question?
Can you give an example of a possibility you think of? In its simplest form it’s exactly your house wifi if you disconnect your internet uplink. Anything bigger is also exactly a subset of the current internet disconnected from the rest, plus you having to maintain infrastructure.
@See VPC, VPN, LAN, etc…
Corporate intranets (intranet essentially being “internal network” while internet is essentially “global network”) have existed for a long time.
But there are intranets all around us - everything on your side of your router can be treated as a local intranet and you can even set up a local DNS server (this is commonly used for ad blocking and I believe pi-holes use this technique though they might just use address blacklisting).
So, TL;DR you already do! A hacker is you!
You mean like an independent mesh?
I thought about that as well, some sort of “pirate radio”/mesh/distributed wireless where one could host a website kinda like the Internet of old and did some light research, but all I could find are Meshtastic (Messages only, no internet) and LoraWAN (seems more focused on IoT)
Use an overlay network and run dns on it.
