On Thursday, the internet as we know it ran out of space

nothing that really should concern anyone..just an interesting fact and bit of history. This wont happen again till we colonize the solar system..or stars

 

Lulz loving the number of undecillion

 

dammit! James Cameron is naming numbers now too?

 

Lets just hope this number is unobtainium! Get it? Get it?

 

thats awecillion!!!

 

hahaha man why don't they just say infinity because they will be "foreseeing" these running out eventually as well and will have yet another huge as set of addresses.

 

Not unless we all kill eachother before that!

 

I'm not sure they can run out eventually. We'd have to have an enormous population spread over multiple galaxies to touch that number of devices, even if pretty much everything was connected to the internet.

It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to use a 128-bit address, but it'd be pointless to avoid a problem we may or may not see in millions of years' time. Providing the capacity for an infinitely long address is... possible, but similarly pointless. You'd have to have a reserved sequence to mark the end of the IP field, which makes segment headers even longer.

 

The intarwebs will never run out of space. If we ruin this planet with IP server we will then polute space

 

Well if all our appliances, vehicles, personal electronics, etc.. end up with some type of WiFi, we'll run out again.

I want a fridge with wifi that can track when I'm low on certain foods and place an order for me automatically with that new groceries to your door service.

 

That sir would be awesome. I hate it when I run out half and half and then I don't have any more.

 

That's actually... a pretty cool idea. ._.;

 

No, we won't run out based on that alone. We'd have to make enough computers to fill a space the size of Antares to run out of IP addresses.

50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 devices per person alive today.