For The Love of Internet

Two decades ago, when Indian ISPs had adequate IPv4 addresses, they were allocating free public IPs. I remember how exciting it was to host my own website from home and be able to access it from anywhere. Gaming was seamless with public IP. Peer to peer apps just worked. But as Internet users grew ISPs decided to deploy NAT. No more public IPs, no more free hosting. And it’s been like that for two decades now. Take a look at table below. It shows countries, their population and % IPv4 address allocation. I have ommitted most countries which have adequate IP addresses except United States which has excess of IPs. You can view the full table here. # Location IP addresses % Population 1 United States 1,611,297,420 43.71 343,477,335 2 China 343,125,576 9.31 1,422,584,933 3 Japan 189,145,768 5.13 124,370,947 4 United Kingdom 134,054,832 3.64 68,682,962 11 Netherlands 48,112,552 1.31 18,092,524 12 Australia 46,444,728 1.26 26,451,124 13 Russia 44,859,860 1.22 145,440,500 14 India 41,624,148…