Maybe the 2000s, yes. This experience in the 90s was reserved for businesses and schools that could afford a T-carrier connection. The rest of us had dialup.

I guess that works for most people except gamers and people who get rate limited because of the actions of others.

Article is correct, IPv4 didn’t die hard.

You create an SSH reverse tunnel (-R option) from a server in your home network to your remote VPS. This gives you a localhost port on your VPS to your server SSH port. Something like:

    ssh -NT -R 2222:localhost:22 vpsuser@yourvps.com

    ssh -J vpsuser@yourvps.com:2222 homeuser@yourhome.com