I used to think that maybe they'd grow on me the same way dotted quad did, but nope, never happened. Sort of like memorizing excess digits of Pi. I used to tell myself someday, someday... But who fucking cares.
I think there was probably a shred of utility in the idea that trillions of hosts could all wire into the same address bus, and maybe sending packets to a space colony that your computer could interface with just as readily as it could another continent or the coffee pot in the kitchen is admirable in its scope of ambition, but most people are using devices so tightly controlled and locked down that it's not like most of use are even messing around with NIC cards and RJ45 jacks anymore.
I haven't looked at a tower PC in years, and so it probably just doesn't really matter anymore.
I used to think that maybe they'd grow on me the same way dotted quad did, but nope, never happened. Sort of like memorizing excess digits of Pi. I used to tell myself someday, someday... But who fucking cares.
I think there was probably a shred of utility in the idea that trillions of hosts could all wire into the same address bus, and maybe sending packets to a space colony that your computer could interface with just as readily as it could another continent or the coffee pot in the kitchen is admirable in its scope of ambition, but most people are using devices so tightly controlled and locked down that it's not like most of use are even messing around with NIC cards and RJ45 jacks anymore.
I haven't looked at a tower PC in years, and so it probably just doesn't really matter anymore.