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Internet Addresses to Run Out in 2010

Everything that connects to the Internet is given a unique number called an IP address. Those numbers are handed out according to a system called IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). Unfortunately, we're fast approaching the maximum number of possible addresses IPv4 can handle -- a limitation of the system created in the 1970s. Running out of addresses could spell the end of the expansion of the ...