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End of the Internet as We Know It - MIT Technology Review

[IPv4] has been the basis for communication between devices since 1981, and it allows for nearly 4.3 billion addresses. The new system allows for around 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses — nearly 50 octillion for every person on earth. 

Image: Pv4 by country: The share of the world’s total of 3.7 billion IPv4 addresses.