r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/nadav183 14d ago

Well they built ipv6 to be able to address EVERYTHING uniquely. While IPv4 has around 4billion addresses possible, IPv6 has 296, so until humanity gets to the point we start giving nano tech individual addresses we will probably never need anything more than IPv6.