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IPv6
I mean, why the hell is IPv4 still a thing??
Try to remember a handful of them
damn if only we had a service that like, obfuscated and abstracted these hard to remember IPs that aren't very user friendly, and turned them into something more usable. That would be cool i think. Someone should make that.
Some kind of name system surely.
perhaps one that were to operate on like, a domain level, maybe.
gah, i'm just not too sure there's a good term for this though.