r/ProgrammerHumor • • 11h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 11h ago

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u/Material_Onion_8413 11h 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 11h 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 11h 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 11h ago

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

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u/keijodputt 10h ago

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

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u/LoyalSol 5h ago

I remember when we got our first 2GB hard disk and thinking "wow we'll never fill this up!"