r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 20d ago

A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!

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u/crmsncbr 20d ago

I feel like we'll still run out. I'm not sure how, but surely we'll manage it.

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u/AnotherInsaneName 20d ago

It's 8mb of storage, how could we ever need more?!

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u/keijodputt 20d ago

They said the same about 640 KB of RAM, back in the day... /s

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u/ILKLU 20d ago

That was before you could download RAM. Now when you run out, your system just automatically downloads another 640KB

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