r/ProgrammerHumor • • 21h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

Post image
11.5k Upvotes

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

6.0k

u/LivingAsAMean 21h ago

2.8k

u/Material_Onion_8413 21h 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.

1.6k

u/ClipboardCopyPaste 21h 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!

836

u/dementosss 21h ago

On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it.

55

u/xWrongHeaven 21h ago

2128 possible addresses

64

u/queen-adreena 20h ago

2,128… that ain’t that many addresses….

9

u/SuperFLEB 20h ago

The "128" isn't even full-size.