The world will run out of Internet addresses “within weeks”, according to one of the Web’s founding fathers, a report said Friday.
Vint Cerf, who helped create the Web by connecting computers using Internet Protocol addresses, said it was his “fault” that the 4.3 billion addresses created were
running out, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “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 1977, Cerf created the Web protocol IPv4, which connects computers globally, as part of an experiment.
—AFP