Keith Nuttle wrote:

I don't know if I am right but I always suspect that when the telephone
went digital in the 1980's, the differnce in the transmission of the
digital conversation and data converged into the same basic system.

I assumed this because of the a telephone number is the same number of
digits as a URL

192.168.01.01
919-333-3636

Is this assumption correct?

wha ???

Aktually, cause they're one digit different,
they couldn't converge them.

Now we have to start over again.

That's why we have IPV6 today, the "telephone mistake".
And because of one stinkin digit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address

"An example of an IPv6 address is:

2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
"

See how easy to remember that is ? I found that
number on a bathroom wall once. "For a good
time, dial... 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334".

OK, now run your telephone theory past me one more time.

2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
919-333-3636-919-333-3636-919-333-3636

Damn! They're still off by one digit. What the...

This is never going to work!

*******

Do you realize how long it would take to explain this ?

In the beginning, it started with two tomato tins and
a piece of string. One tomato tin was "0", the
other tomato tin was "1". And that's where
"numbering plans" came from. "Can I talk to '1' please?"
"Speaking". When they made the string longer, you
had to put a 1- in front (long distance).

Paul