The Internet is Full. Please Move On.

#1: It means nothing
The reason the Internet is running out of addresses is because the current format for addresses, IPv4, has simply run out of numbers. A new format called IPv6, which can handle more than twice the number of addresses as IPv4, has long since been developed to deal with this problem. So we'll simply transition over to this new format over the next few months and years, which shouldn't be that big a deal, again unless you're one of those awful people who have to work with computers. Most of the software we already use is capable of supporting IPv6 addresses, and there are similar hardware solutions in place that will allow both addressing systems to work in parallel during this transition period. The Internet, and the cat related image trading that drives it, shall go on.What You Need To Do: Nothing. (Nothing regarding Internet usage that is. You will still need to eat and poop.)Related: Kills 99% Of Germs: 6 Ad Phrases That Mean Literally Nothing
#2: We'll have to learn to share

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#3: Nobody new gets to use the Internet
Another option on how to allocate limited IP addresses is to simply stop letting new people online. This is pretty troubling from an ethical standpoint, as it would mean poor people and Africans would be discriminated against. But also no grandparents. It's what ethicists would call "an OK deal."What You Need To Do: Presumably you're in OK shape, because you're online already, reading this. But what if you're not? What if you're reading this on a printout found in a restroom, while you wait for something interesting to start happening on the other side of that gloryhole (our webstats indicate 1.5 percent of this column's readers are actively using a gloryhole). If that's you, and you don't have Internet access already, then you'd better get on that immediately. Or you could finish up there first. Yeah. You'll be in a bad mood all day if you don't finish up there first.Related: 5 Scientific Ways the Internet is Dividing Us
#4: Cold Turkey

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#5: Oh Yeah? Well maybe we'll just start our own Internet!
Way back when the Internet was a lot uglier a few eggheads got together with the intent of making a better, sexier Internet. And, thanks to an absolutely laughable lack of creative abilities, they decided to call it Internet2. (The correct name for an Internet sequel? Laser-Mesh.) Internet2 was going to be a separate but parallel Internet operating atop a different and supposedly superior architecture, which would allow all sorts of incredible egghead things to be done, without all of those distressing nip-slip pictures cluttering it up. The idea did not prove popular.But, as we lurch into 2011 with Internet Classic full to the brim, the door for Internet2 may have finally opened up. Users who find themselves shut out of the original may choose to flock to the new version, promoting a healthy sense of rivalry between the two networks, allowing the faerie magick of free-market competition to cause both networks to improve.Related: 5 Sci-Fi Medical Procedures We'll Have in Our Lifetime
#6: Skynet
One of the primary reasons the Internet ran out of IP addresses so rapidly is the massive amount of small hardware devices which have demanded dedicated addresses to themselves. One potential solution would be to segregate these hardware devices to the second, lamer Internet (the one with the eggheads, and I guess also the poor people and grandparents). That way the rest of us sweat-leaking Internet users could remain on the original Internet and laugh it up as per usual, with our recipe trading and cyber-bullying and Buffy fanfic reviewing.The downside to this, as history tells us, is that segregating robots to their own corner of anything is a recipe for a war that destroys the sky.