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Finally, 359.33.9.234 can be real.


> 359.33.9.234

I searched to see where it's from (CSI: Miami) and found a screenshot of it in a gallery with even more egregious examples, like 67.259.2942.1003 and 8394.83.384.38482:

https://www.root.cz/galerie/pocitacove-nesmysly-ve-filmech/#...


It's a simple way to avoid numbers on-screen from coinciding with any real IP addresses. It's the equivalent to phone numbers always starting with 555.


I'm not sure if this is still the case, but 555-1212 is the number for directory assistance.


NANP [1] has reserved other line numbers for other uses, including specifically entertainment

[1] https://nationalnanpa.com/number_resource_info/555_numbers.h...


In an alternate timeline, using four 16-bit numbers instead of octets could very well have been a solution to the IPv4 shortage. :)


Or in the future, CHAOS-2 could use one 1024 bit decimal number, making IPV6 obsolete, and disrupting the page layout of HN threads!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaosnet

All hail the second coming of Chaosnet, the return of the Tzeentch Control Protocol!

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Chaos_God

>Major Chaos Gods

>Tzeentch: The Architect of Fate, who uses powerful sorceries to alter the future. He was once the greatest of the Chaos Gods and is potentially the most powerful. He's the God of Change, who endlessly plots and schemes, in a cosmic-wide game of subterfuge and manipulation. He became fully sentient in the 2nd millenium, due to mankind during Earth's medieval period. Tzeentch listens to the hopes of all mortals, feeding on their need and desire for change.




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