Happy World IPv6 Day!

If you know what that means, congratulations, for the other 98% of you, today was one big test drive.  The Internet as we use it now is based on IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4).  This is essentially the rules that govern how Internet communications works across the world.  The problem with IPv4 is that we are literally running out of unique internet addresses available for everyone to use.  Every Internet capable device is automatically assigned a unique address on the Internet, along with every website.  After all, how would the yahoo mail be able to communicate with your smartphone if it did not have a way to find it (ie. an IP address).  We are running out of those addresses.  Introducing IPv6, a new communication protocol that will provide an additional 4 billion or more unique addresses for all of us Internet consuming humans to use.  For one day (today), many of the major Internet players, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Yahoo along with many others switched over to IPv6 for today only for a test drive.  So far, so good, the Internet didn't explode....yet