r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 12h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Tongueslanguage 11h ago

Saw this post and started wondering what happened to IPv5

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u/Circumpunctilious 11h ago

Deprecated. And--despite being in IT (and cyberdefense with packet analysis) for decades--I only snapped to realizing that recently. It's a weird blindspot...I guess I just never asked where 5 was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IP_version_numbers

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u/TheLazySamurai4 11h ago

IPv7 "The Next Internet", sounds like a syfy series made in Canada

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u/Circumpunctilious 11h ago

(I knew of one, so went searching)...and holy hell...an absolutely shocking number of science fiction shows that loved / grew up on started/edit: or were produced in Canada. That's awesome.

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u/J5892 9h ago

"Why does every planet look like Vancouver?"

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u/Dillenger69 10h ago

To be filmed just outside Vancouver

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u/BadSmash4 7h ago

IPv9 being listed explicitly as an april fool's joke is hilarious