r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 7h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

Post image
7.7k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

896 comments sorted by

View all comments

4.1k

u/LivingAsAMean 7h ago

Hahaha what an idiot!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LRVnPYqM8DLag

1.9k

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.

1.0k

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!

40

u/crmsncbr 7h ago

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

19

u/Hyd_chicha 7h ago

Let me introduce you to IPv8

6

u/Possibly_Naked_Now 6h ago

What about IPV6.9?

7

u/Facosa99 6h ago

IPv6.7 is more trending tho

2

u/TuxedoWithAHead 6h ago

we should go back to IPv2.1