How the Internet Works 18 October 2013

Friday Fun: An IPv6 Pumpkin At Tomorrow's Keene (NH) Pumpkin Festival

By Dan YorkChief of Staff, Office of the CEO

Tomorrow, somewhere among the 30,000+ pumpkins displayed at the Keene Pumpkin Festival 2013, will be this pumpkin stating proudly “IPv6”. Probably most people won’t have a clue… but it will be a fun little thing for the geeks and technology folks out there.  Living here in Keene, New Hampshire, as I do, you wind up carving a lot of pumpkins because the pumpkin festival is really our largest annual community event.  After a while, you get tired of carving just simple faces, so it’s always fun to do something different.  If you look at some of the photos (more links to photos here), 30,000-ish pumpkins is a huge amount of pumpkins… and somewhere in there will be one saying IPv6! 🙂
Pumpkin carved with IPv6

What about you?  Are you going to carve any “IPv6 pumpkins” this year?  I thought about carving “::1”, but I thought even fewer people would know what that was! 😉

Disclaimer: Viewpoints expressed in this post are those of the author and may or may not reflect official Internet Society positions.

Related Posts

Internet Policy 5 September 2025

Your Internet Access Is at Risk. We’re Speaking Up

The US Supreme Court will soon consider a case that could fundamentally change how you access the Internet and...

Open Standards Everywhere 16 April 2025

The Open Fibre Data Standard

The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) is an open data, open standards initiative supported by the Internet Society.  

Supporting a Secure and Trustworthy Internet 6 September 2024

US Government Networks Get a Security Boost: White House Roadmap Tackles Routing Vulnerabilities

The White House's Roadmap to Enhancing Routing Security is an important step toward strengthening routing security in the United...