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Birth of IPv4 in 1983
Just randomly came across this report about the 1983 migration from 8-bit internet addressing to IPv4 and thought it was a good read, so decided to share it here.
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2016/09/final-report-on-tcpip-migration-in-1983/
Comments
That was a good read, thanks for sharing!
This is also good, because IPv4 started in the late 70s
https://blog.powercram.com/2015/04/history-of-internet-addressing.html
Yeah, I think this 1983 event was precipitated by "we're turning off the old thing now, so if you want to stay connected..."
Ironically, just today I got a nice new shiny 500Mbps fibre upgrade at home. And this ISP doesn't offer IPv6 which is somewhat annoying as I was transitioning my servers to primarily use IPv6.