The Internet has run out of iP addresses

Yes, it's true: the Internet has run out of addresses.

iP addresses have, until now, been in ample supply.

But the Internet connects a lot more than just computers nowadays: PlayStations, smartphones, Xboxes, Blu-Ray players, stereo systems, all these things have to have an address on the web to communicate with one another.

Hence the four billion iP addresses have now been taken!

That system was called IPv4.

To solve this problem, IPv6 was created. It grows the number of available addresses from a measly four billion to:

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

Which is quite a large number really.