Why "24" if the worst show ever (Canonical Rant with Straw Man)

I have a certain amount of tolerance for the nonsense technospeak that they do on TV shows. But 24 is really the worst. It is as if there is someone on the writing staff that knows how to say things just wrong enough to really irk people.

Last night Tony Alemeida discovered to his horror that his wife was being held hostage by terrorists. I was horrified to discover that he typed in an illegal IP address to see the streaming video.

"But... But... But..."

But nothing. If the writers know that IP addresses are four octets, they ought to know what that the valid ranges are.

"its like when they start telephone numbers with 555"

No... it isn't.