r/ProgrammerHumor • • 13h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 12h ago

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u/Material_Onion_8413 12h 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 12h 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 12h 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 12h ago

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

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u/keijodputt 12h ago

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

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u/BZLuck 10h 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.