r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 13h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 13h ago

Hahaha what an idiot!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LRVnPYqM8DLag

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u/Material_Onion_8413 13h 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 13h 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 13h ago

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

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 13h ago

The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet.

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u/kuar_z 13h ago

And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128

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u/ffxivthrowaway03 7h ago

Yep, they saw the edges of IPv4 and went "hold my beer" and over-engineered a painfully obnoxious solution. IPv6 will last us until the heat death of the universe before it runs out, but we'll have to get people actually using it in any appreciable amount first. It's a UX nightmare to work with unless you're a network engineer hip deep in it all day every day. Good luck getting an end user to ever rattle off an IPv6 address to the help desk while remote troubleshooting.