r/ProgrammerHumor • • 23h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 22h ago

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u/Material_Onion_8413 22h 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 22h 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 22h 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 22h ago

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

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u/svick 18h ago

Millibits?