Get ready for the biggest geek party since Pi day. On June 8, more than a hundred organizations, including Google, Akamai, and Facebook, will jettison the aging Internet Protocol 4 and take the more robust IPv6 standard out for a one-day test-drive. (IPv5 never caught on.) It’s the most exciting thing to happen to servers since Y2K! But this special occasion shouldn’t be limited to those who own rackspace. Here’s what you can do to ring in the new protocol.

• Bake a Cake
  Serve a cake shaped like Vint Cerf and Bob Khan, who saddled us with the IPv4 standard in ‘73. Slicing them up and eating them is the perfect way to say thanks for all the address-space exhaustion, jerks! Decorate the cake with 128 candles—one for each bit that IPv6 accommodates.