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Re:IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ by phicoh on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:21AM (#28328988)
When the web was young, millions of people have learned how to type www.example.com. People would often spell out the 'http://' on the radio.

No doubt, browsers could let people type fe80::1 and make it work.

It will take a while before people are used to the double colon, etc. But it also took a while before people where comfortable typing IPv4 addresses.

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Re:IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ by lazide on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:04PM (#28329502)
People did that because they had no choice - here people are just not opting in to v6 because they can still use v4, which is easier. Very different situation.
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Re:IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ by FroshKiller on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:25PM (#28329717)
They could use AOL keywords, too, but they still advertised and used Web URLs.
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