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by mananaysiempre 1829 days ago
IIUC the IPv6 weirdness here is simply due to very unfortunate timing: IPv6 was being finalized at a time (first half of the 90s) when the Web (and with it URLs) was already nearly frozen but still not obviously important.
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The colons also make IPv6 addresses unambiguous to IPv4 notation.