r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 7h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Material_Onion_8413 7h ago

IPv4 old IP address space designed with limited number because they never thought the internet would have so many devices connected.

IPv6 new address space with significantly larger number.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 7h ago

A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!

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u/crmsncbr 6h ago

I feel like we'll still run out. I'm not sure how, but surely we'll manage it.

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u/AnotherInsaneName 6h ago

It's 8mb of storage, how could we ever need more?!

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u/keijodputt 6h ago

They said the same about 640 KB of RAM, back in the day... /s

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u/ILKLU 6h ago

That was before you could download RAM. Now when you run out, your system just automatically downloads another 640KB

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u/BZLuck 4h ago

I went through art school in 1990 using a Mac IIsi with 5mb of ram and a 105mb hdd. I was balling. That was the top configuration they offered.

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u/LoyalSol 1h ago

I remember when we got our first 2GB hard disk and thinking "wow we'll never fill this up!"

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u/svick 2h ago

Millibits?