Talk:Update 1.1.7/@comment-26821502-20170917095638/@comment-28905095-20170917102943

For short it's an alternative way to address stuff on the internet, and if you're really into the long version read something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6.

A somewhat un-precise description is that IP-addresses ran out of space with the previous IPv4 protocol, which used addresses like, so they needed an alternative and hence the IPv6 protocol was created, with addresses like   which could be simplified into. Most people never need to actually type in these addresses, though, and only uses the DNS names like minecraftpocketedition.wikia.com instead.