What's Your Physical Address?

What's your address? 173.168.15.10 No, your local address. 127.0.0.1 I mean your physical address. 29:01:38:62:31:58

Two office workers have a conversation about an address. One keeps answering with network addresses—first an external-looking IP, then the localhost address, and finally a timecode-like string—while the other asks for his physical address. The joke is about a technically minded person deliberately misunderstanding a simple question, making this useful as a reaction to pedantic or evasive answers. EN: Two office workers have a conversation about an address. One keeps answering with network addresses—first an external-looking IP, then the localhost address, and finally a timecode-like string—while the other asks for his physical address. The joke is about a technically minded person deliberately misunderstanding a simple question, making this useful as a reaction to pedantic or evasive answers.

• @profunctor_io / 372 2017-11-01