You don't need to be running a "server" off of your pc in order to be an internet host. You just need to be a "computer" on the internet. Hell, you don't even need to be a computer. In my senior year, I developed software and hardware to put a coffee machine on the web.
All's you need is an IP address and a TCP/IP stack (oh, and since they probably check for the existence of hosts using ICMP messages, you might want to have your host reply to ping requests in order to become part of this statistic).
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You don't need to be running a "server" off of your pc in order to be an internet host. You just need to be a "computer" on the internet. Hell, you don't even need to be a computer. In my senior year, I developed software and hardware to put a coffee machine on the web.
All's you need is an IP address and a TCP/IP stack (oh, and since they probably check for the existence of hosts using ICMP messages, you might want to have your host reply to ping requests in order to become part of this statistic).