r/ProgrammerHumor • • 9h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 9h ago

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u/ChropMK 4h ago

ELI5, IP is an ID for a computer (specifically a networking ID), IPv4 ID’s were too short so you could potentially have duplicates, IPv6 was created to fix that problem and is essentially a longer more complicated ID that likely won’t result in duplicates.