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Originally Posted by HOOT
Why didn't they make that many IPs during IPv4?
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In addition to what has been said- keep in mind that IPv4 was brought in during the late 70s and early 80s. At that point there was an IP address for every person on the earth. If you had told anybody in 1981 that 30 years later that there would be this many websites, internet users and internet enabled devices- they wouldn't have believed you.
I'm tempted to save a copy of that Google page where they talk about "to offer the Internet virtually infinite room to grow." Because in 20 years we could be looking at some other protocol due to us running out.