[dave_universetf]

I can help here: these definitely aren't cursed, because curses aren't real. I was exagerating for comic effect, because this was just a twitter rant that got out of control :)

That said, many of those representations no longer make sense in the modern world, and I'm actively choosing to not support them. That doesn't mean I don't understand why they came about in the first place, au contraire! I'm explicitly deciding that their historical reason for existing no longer applies.

[proactivesvcs]

Thank you for the clarification, it does sound like you've done more background research than the linked blog entry may explain. Was this the result of simply reading the RFCs or did you come across other resources that expand on the obsolete IP address representations?