Will Enhance the Online World on the System News web site. By Greg Papadopoulos Millions of people navigate the Internet today with relative ease. Unlike early netizens, they don't have to rely on news groups, bulletin boards, and word of mouth to find their way around. Gone are the days when using the Internet required learning arcane commands to copy files or send e-mail. Each entity on the Internet, for instance, needs a unique address.
Trouble is, like phone numbers, they're getting used up.
But that's really just the beginnning. And then, sure enough, along comes the first breakthrough application, the Web browser. Together, they helped make the Internet so popular that we're running out of addresses. So it's one of the many additions included with IPv6. These days, people are more mobile.