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I'm sure many smaller companies had their own internal Y2K moment as they scaled and became a big hit, and realized they used a wrong datatype like int instead of long or something and shit was gonna break by XYZ date if they did nothing heh.
Imagine if you were the guy who made the call on IPv4 addresses…
Give it long enough and somehow the person who decided on IPv6 will feel the same as every piece of matter we want to interact with can be networked.
I guess the MAC address guy is up next. 48 bits may not go so far if every light bulb is going to want its own.
Apple won't like that doomsday event lol