We’ve finally hit the breaking point for the original Internet
washingtonpost.com
We’ve finally hit the breaking point for the original Internet
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Re: We’ve finally hit the breaking point for the original Internet
#2The sense of panic in this article is quite the thing to behold. Lost it at "Entirely new technologies we haven't dreamt of might never have emerged. We'd have been stuck with the Internet that we now have, forever."
Re: We’ve finally hit the breaking point for the original Internet
#3A sensationalist headline for a simple fact we already know—the world is switching gradually over to IPV6, and has been for some time now.
Re: We’ve finally hit the breaking point for the original Internet
#4"and now, it's activated the end-times protocol that will see the few remaining addresses out into the night."
Jeesh.
The sensationalist rhetoric might have been bearable if the article didn't contain statements whose inconsistency should have been immediately obvious to the author:
The original designers of the Internet thought they'd only need around 4 billion unique combinations...
the unique numbers that we assign to each and every smartphone, tablet and PC so they can talk to the Internet.
So either the author believes there are fewer than 4 billion computers/smartphones/tablets in the world (...), or else is just exceptionally careless.
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#5"and now, it's activated the end-times protocol that will see the few remaining addresses out into the night." Jeesh. The sensationalist rhetoric might have been bearable if the article didn't contain statements whose inconsistency should have been immediately obvious to the author: The original designers of the Internet thought they'd only need around 4 billion unique combinations... the unique numbers that we assig…
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Re: We’ve finally hit the breaking point for the original Internet
#6"and now, it's activated the end-times protocol that will see the few remaining addresses out into the night." Jeesh. The sensationalist rhetoric might have been bearable if the article didn't contain statements whose inconsistency should have been immediately obvious to the author: The original designers of the Internet thought they'd only need around 4 billion unique combinations... the unique numbers that we assig…
What is your complaint?
The article is seemingly sensationalist for the sake of sensationalism?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is your complaint?
The article is seemingly sensationalist for the sake of sensationalism?
And, moreover, that the author seemingly put so much effort into producing click bait rhetoric that he failed to even produce an accurate description of the problem.
Re: We’ve finally hit the breaking point for the original Internet
#8i have been reading this same type of article since i was in school..and that's before the y2k !