This is a seminal day in the history of the internet. We have reached the IPcalypse - the 4.3 billion IP addresses created in the current adderessing scheme (IPv4) have been used up. This mean, like it or not, we must move to the new addressing scheme (IPv6) is we want the internet to be able to expand. With any luck, we won't have to do this again - the new scheme supports 340 undecillion (3.4 x 1038) addresses. You can learn about the new system here, but for those of us who grew up on the old system, you can call it ::1 but there's no place like 127.0.0.1
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