When Vint Cerf and his friends at DARPA concocted a system that allowed for 4.3 billion IP addresses , it was never conceived that everyone’s computer would be able to access the internet — before the age when your telephone, fridge and air conditioning unit would too. The IPv4 system officially ran out of addresses last year, but fortunately the moment was prepared for: June 8th 2011 was ” World IPv6 Day ,” where a host of sites including Google , Bing and Facebook quietly tried out the new system for 24 hours to make sure it wouldn’t cause the internet to explode
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June 6th 2012: IPv6 goes live
