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Here's to all happy campers: I have the feeling I will run my website on IPv4 forever and never add an AAAA record. I wouldn't be surprised if IPv4 stays arou

by TekMol 4y ago

Here's to all happy campers: I have the feeling I will run my website on IPv4 forever and never add an AAAA record. I wouldn't be surprised if IPv4 stays around for another 1000 years. Railroads have been around for over 2000 years and are still going strong. Despite cars and planes. Postal service has been going on for 4000 years. Since the times of the pharaos! And It's still going strong too. Despite phone, email and whatsapp. I still use VIM to edit my code, Django for the backend and no framework for the frontend. HN and Wikipedia still use tables for their layout.

rhn_mk1 4y ago
Counterpoint: railways often get abandoned out of lack of use. Europe no longer has a reasonable network of night trains. Horses used to be the main mode of transportation for centuries. Now they still exist, but as a tiny niche. Sending letters by post was a mainstream thing. Now it's only travel cards for a minority who cares. FreeDOS is still developed. So is BeOS/Haiku. But good luck finding anyone using that on a laptop in a cafe. I wouldn't be surprised if a few enthusiasts still used IPv4 in legacy software in 1000 years. I would be very surprised if it remained mainstream.