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>>1vuio0+(OP)
> someone on HN tried to argue with me that IP addresses will never stay the same for very long

Deeply deeply agree with you. Not whoever was arguing. :) My "dialup" VM in the cloud I use for assorted things has had the same IP for at least 7 years, probably longer. (Thanks Linode!) After a few years, it's honestly not that hard to remember an arbitrary 32bit int. :)

  $ w3m -dump http://846235814   # ;)

>>loxias+eg
That's another myth that always iritated me: IPv4 addresses cannot be memorised. I have a few memorised, mainly some TLDs and Internic. With those I can "bootstrap" using DNS/FTP to get any other address. IPv4 are no more difficult to remember than phone numbers. Maybe people are not memorising phone numbers anymore because of mobile phone contacts storage but it does mean we are incapable of doing so.

Thank you for stating the truth.

>>1vuio0+8i
Literally nobody thinks its impossible to memorize 4 8-bit numbers. A bad user experience, sure.

> I have a few memorised, mainly some TLDs and Internic. With those I can "bootstrap" using DNS/FTP to get any other address.

Pretty sure that's true of 90% of everyone here, since all you really need to memorize is a public dns resolver, and 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1 .1 is a particularly easy address to remember.