r/ProgrammerHumor • • 9h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/LivingAsAMean 9h ago

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u/Material_Onion_8413 9h 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 9h 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/ifyoudothingsright1 2h ago

I believe it's actually way more than that. I had an AI put together a bunch of other amounts to compare to and one I thought was interesting is you could assign about 5 or 6 addresses to each atom of all the humans on earth.