The fact they considered an IP address to be ONE number grinded my gears..

dm2 · on July 14, 2014

Hahaha, in the right setting (on The IT Crowd for instance) that would be hilarious. "What is your IP address?" "Twelve."

The fact that they were being serious and the that it has very little to do with HN made me flag this post. Nothing to see here.

NSCFType · on July 14, 2014

Well, technically, IP addresses can be represented by a single integer:

2130706433 == 127.0.0.1

shdon · on July 15, 2014

And the cool thing is, you can just put http://3626153261 in your browser address bar and end up at slashdot.org (news.ycombinator.com is behind CloudFlare, which doesn't allow IP-based access for obvious reasons)

gweinberg · on July 15, 2014

Technically, anything you can name can be represented by a single integer.

staz · on July 15, 2014

Yeah but technically in the protocol it's just one number, we show it as 4 numbers because it's easier for humans to manipulate