![]() But we are rapidly approaching a point where more than 4 billion devices might access the Internet at once, and all of them need an IP. In fact 94% of Internet traffic uses IPv4 to track the location of devices online. When this was created, scientists didn't think we would need more than the approximately 4 billion permutations that that sort of scheme allows, and it's lasted quite some time. It applies to both public and private connections. IPv4 is the first deployed version of the Internet Protocol and uses a 32-bit address scheme that generally looks like this: 192.168.1.1. ![]() When the Internet was first conceived, nobody could have guessed how popular it would be, or what an important part of our lives it would become.
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