alt Hacker NewsThere are still ascii dialup bulletin boards out there. and operating model T’s. IPv4 will be around for longer than you or I.
There are still ascii dialup bulletin boards out there. and operating model T’s. IPv4 will be around for longer than you or I.
There are also still Telex and X.25 networks around there, not to forget the whole public telephone network!
But at some point, getting a native connection to all of these started becoming increasingly rare, and now these are largely emulated/tunneled on top of IP. The same can happen for IPv4.