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"The original engineers of IPv4 thought that 4.29 billion IP addresses would be enough for the whole world. Computers were expensive, after all, and only military and educational systems connected to the Internet. It’s not as if every person in the world would one day own multiple networked devices.
Oops."
@mwlucas can I ask, what is this af3e thing?
@mwlucas I remember Vint Cerf speaking at RIT on this. He originally thought about making addresses 64 or 128 bit, but had some pushback on it being excessive, so he relented.
Cerf pauses and looks at the audience.
"I'm sorry."
:D