The data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/yesterdays-global-internet-outage-caused-by-single-file-on-cloudflare-servers-unexpected-file-size-caused-catastrophic-error-knocking-out-several-major-websites” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/yesterdays-global-internet-outage-caused-by-single-file-on-cloudflare-servers-unexpected-file-size-caused-catastrophic-error-knocking-out-several-major-websites”>Internet as we know it was born through a series of unexpected developments in networking technology. So it isn’t very surprising that, along its crooked growth trajectory, there were several rather fruitless branches. One such branch was the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol” data-url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Internet Stream Protocol (ST), which is also sometimes referred to as IPv5, as tech tidbits Twitterer Laurie Wired recently highlighted. However, the industry has skipped IPv5, moving directly from IPv4 to IPv6, leaving it as a forgotten protocol.
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