[digi_owl]

Hollywood and the like early on learned to not put real phone numbers into movies etc. Putting in non-functional ip addresses are just as sensible, especially when some teen can point a DDOS at it in a second.

[Bob-Thomas_III]

RFC 5737 - IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation [1] would be a good fit for use in TV series and movies.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737