basireid

a few days ago, i read online somewhere about the coming shortage of available ip addresses as i did some searching at the time regarding a php file i was working on, for a fun project, and to learn, i made a file that generates random ip addresses, to then click on... anyway, the numbers are in groups of four and only go as high as 255... does anyone know more as to why they only go so high? at the time, years ago, they must have figured there would be plenty, until the development of handheld devices that also use ip addresses... so my question, why not drop the limit of 255 for each subgroup and go higher, even to 999? maybe there are some here who will decipher what i am trying to say here and for the code i worked out, i am still not sure what forum section to post it under thanks for the time and for the forum, too much to read here and not enough time

thanks, i will try to read more before posting

have only been a member for a few days here just now while looking through one of the forum threads, i could not see the reply button... it was in the PHP Freelancing section, as one thread had caught my eye enough to reply, there is no reply button... do i need to have a certain number of thread replies etc to be able to reply? sorry for the newbie question

Hello name is Brian... aka basireid, new to this forum, found after searching some stuff on regular expressions have experience with c#.net a few years ago... fairly experienced with html and some javascripting new to php, yet find it is easy to read and follow when viewing source code... currently looking to rewrite a program i made using c# using php, the code is gone, have to do it from scratch, much more fun this way a stupid question can pages be written primarily using html, and saved with .htm extension, include php expressions and commands?