It is Y2K all over again as the Internet is hit by another disaster. When McDonald’s surpassed 99 billion burgers, or is it like the McApocalypse, when the market was really going to crash over the price of repairing all those signals.

It looked like a lot in the time, nevertheless they ran out in Europe and Asia a couple of years back and are running outside in America thanks to the proliferation of connected devices from telephones to refrigerators to my light bulbs.

Asians and the Europeans changed to IPv6, a replacement standard consented on back in 1998. Luckily, unlike your old phone number, you do not have to memorize it.

If everyone has understood this was coming for years, why was nothing carried out to prepare for it? It seems to be the American Way. Look at credit cards; everyone understood the remaining part of the world changed to them years ago, but American banks did not need to pay the price of the conversion as well as that chip and pin cards were safe. It took a huge data breach at Target to convince everyone that maybe paying for better security is recommended.

It seems that the same thing is occurring here. As stated by the WSJ:

The upgrade isn’t expensive. Research firm Gartner says a companywide migration prices about 7% of the yearly IT budget of the business. Companies using a large Internet presence have an incentive to put it away for so long as possible, although everyone on the Web must make the jump.