Don’t discount just putting together a basic webpage that can be accessed at home too- something he could put together in a basic HTML editor (drag and drop) and put his favorite things on or whatever he may be focusing on (cars, animals, space, you name it).
A Minecraft server is the classic.
Don’t discount just putting together a basic webpage that can be accessed at home too- something he could put together in a basic HTML editor (drag and drop) and put his favorite things on or whatever he may be focusing on (cars, animals, space, you name it).
I definitely agree on a vanilla Minecraft server.
It’s really simple but you can go very deep in what you could do with it. Also it’s a game and brings a playful fun aspect into the technical world.
It’s pretty much how I started to learn everything about networking years ago.
Heimdall is a great self hosted start page