u/W7ENK

Okay, so as an IT guy, this bothered me...
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Okay, so as an IT guy, this bothered me...

I cannot – for the life of me – figure out what internet protocol (IPvX) they're using in this Universe. When we started our public "World Wide Web" in the early 1990s (I was there, I saw it happen, I was one of the first pioneers! Trolling for preds on prodigy.net bulletin boards was my jam at 14 years old. All those copycats you see on YouTube now, I literally invented that shit! Beside the point...) we used a 32 bit addressing system (later labeled IPv4) that allowed up to 256 unique address "blocks' in sets of 4. So basically 0 thru 255 per block, up to 255.255.255.255.

If you look at the image I posted, you'll see an IP address that breaks that system with an IP shown of 475.355.76.178

Let's say in the new timeline they doubled the capacity of IP protocol by going to a 64 bit addressing system. That being the case, the addressing protocol would still have exceeded Base-10 numbering, which would have forced them into Hexadecimal addressing (similar to current, newer IPv6, which is 128 bit).

So is this just another case of 'The Net' (1995 Sandra Bullock film) error, or is there something here that I'm not wrapping my aging IT/MIS brain around?

>!The stupid bot is forcing me to redact something as "spoiler" before it will allow my post to go through.!<

u/W7ENK — 3 days ago