Why have we not run out of ip addresses?

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With the massive growth in internet devices, shouldn’t we have used up all possible ipv4 numbers?

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Think about it like this, imagine your in a house and you call out the name Aaron, despite the fact that there are thousands of Aarons that exists on planet earth, only the Aaron that lives inside the house knows you’re talking to him. It’s a similar concept with IP address. Two devices are allowed to have the same IP address so long as they exist in the same local area network (LAN). And because two devices are allowed to have the same IP address, you are less likely to run out of IP address.

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