Hiawatha Bray, writing in the Boston Globe Business section today, explains that the "Online Universe is About to Grow." He is talking about Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Basically, we are about to run out of Internet addresses in the current format, known as Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). Back when the Internet we know was being designed, nobody imagined the commerce and public uses that would explode after graphical interfaces developed. The Internet was a pokey place that was a bit… [
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