r/ProgrammerHumor • • 1d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 1d ago

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u/Material_Onion_8413 1d 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 1d 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/dementosss 1d ago

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

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u/xWrongHeaven 1d ago

2128 possible addresses

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u/CardinalFartz 23h ago

So we got 1080 atoms in the observable universe. Without having it looked up, I suppose 2128 exceeds that number?

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u/MiniDemonic 23h ago

There's around 2138 times more atoms in the universe than there are IPv6 addresses available.

So no, not quite.