Posted on: Saturday, 22 January 2011, 06:50 CST
Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the web, said that the world will soon run out of Internet addresses, blaming himself for the coming shortfall of the some 4.3 billion addresses, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Friday.
“I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion would be enough to do an experiment,” Cerf, who is Google’s vice president and “Chief Internet Evangelist,” was quoted as saying in an interview with the Australian news source.
“Who the hell knew how much address space we needed?” he asked.
In 1977, Cerf created the web protocol IPv4, which connects computers globally, as part of an experiment while working with the US Department of Defense. He said he never thought the experiment would turn into what it is today.
“It doesn’t mean the network stops, it just means you can’t build it very well,” he said.
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