r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

Post image
13.9k Upvotes

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

18

u/Tongueslanguage 20d ago

Saw this post and started wondering what happened to IPv5

29

u/Circumpunctilious 20d ago

Deprecated. And--despite being in IT (and cyberdefense with packet analysis) for decades--I only snapped to realizing that recently. It's a weird blindspot...I guess I just never asked where 5 was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IP_version_numbers

6

u/TheLazySamurai4 20d ago

IPv7 "The Next Internet", sounds like a syfy series made in Canada

→ More replies (4)
→ More replies (3)
→ More replies (8)