Amaya Toman Do you know the term vaporwave? In addition to the name of a musical style, this is also a designation for software that the company promised to release but did not deliver - this type of announcement is often made to prevent eager users from purchasing software from a competitor. Today we remember not only the day when this term was first used in the press, but we also remember the exhaustion of IPv4 IP addresses.
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What is vaporwave? (1986)
Philip Elmer-DeWitt used the term "vaporwave" in his article in TIME magazine on February 3, 1986. The word later came to be used as a designation for software whose arrival was long announced but never actually saw the light of day. For example, a number of experts reported that Microsoft often and fondly resorted to announcing what turned out to be vaporwave software just to prevent users from acquiring software from competing companies. Nowadays, however, at least some people think of a rather specific musical style under the name "vaporwave".
Exhaustion of IP addresses in IPv 4 (2011)
On February 3, 2011, a report appeared in the media about the impending exhaustion of IP addresses in the IPv4 protocol. The first warnings of this type appeared already in the fall of 2010. IPv4 in the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) registry was at that time the most widely used Internet protocol through which IP addresses were assigned. At the beginning of February 2011, the individual regional internet registries (RIRs) already had a few remaining blocks available for redistribution. The successor to the IPv4 protocol was the IPv6 protocol, which made it possible to assign a practically unlimited number of IP addresses. The day when almost all IP addresses in the IPv4 protocol were distributed is considered one of the most important events in the history of the Internet.
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