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The internet has run out of space (sort of)
« on: February 03, 2011, 07:53:07 PM »
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/03/int...ex.html?npt=NP1

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The nonprofit group that assigns addresses to service providers announced that, on Thursday morning, it allocated the last free internet addresses available from the current pool used for most of the internet's history.
"This is an historic day in the history of the internet, and one we have been anticipating for quite some time," said Raul Echeberria, chairman of the Number Resource Organization.
But fear not. The group has seen this coming for more than a decade and is ready with a new pool of addresses that it expects to last, well, forever.


A mere 4.3 billion addresses... blink.gif
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