Routing Memes

OH MY GOD, it's the most exclusive bus in town! Instead of going to boring places like "Downtown" or "Main Street," this bougie green monster is headed straight to the PRIVATE NETWORK NEIGHBORHOOD! 🚌 That route number "192.168.10.1" isn't just ANY address - it's the sacred local IP address that network admins worship like a deity! You literally CANNOT get more local than this! It's the "I never leave my basement" of transportation! And of course it's route 94... because this bus only communicates through HTTP! I bet it refuses to upgrade to HTTPS because "it's too mainstream." Such a hipster bus. 💅

When your IPv4 address gets tired of being just 4 bytes and decides to become a bus route number. That's not a destination—that's a full TCP handshake with room for cookies! Somewhere, a network admin is frantically checking if someone accidentally routed the entire internet to Sweden. The driver probably needs GPS just to remember where this monstrosity is supposed to go.

The great IPv6 conspiracy finally exposed! After decades of network engineers forcing us to memorize hexadecimal nightmares like 2001:500:2f::f , someone's finally calling out this madness. Remember when IP addresses were just four simple numbers? Then these networking folks decided "let's add letters and colons because clearly that's more user-friendly!" Meanwhile, NAT was sitting there the whole time, perfectly capable of solving our address shortage without making us type hieroglyphics. The diagrams at the bottom really sell it - complex network schematics that might as well be ancient runes to most of us. Twenty years of "IPv6 is the future" and we're all still running IPv4 with NAT because, surprise, it actually works. And yes, there's no IPv5. It was experimental, never deployed, and now exists only in networking folklore - like documentation that's actually helpful.