In the URL of each YouTube video is the 11-character video ID, unique for each video. Can they ever run out? Just how many videos can YouTube handle? To work it out, we need to talk about counting systems, and about something called Base 64.
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Funny thing, after 9 years:
-we have more people on the planet
-we have more gadgets per person (not only PCs, but smartphones, tablets, dash cameras, etc.)
-we have more than one account to google and youtube (usually)
-we have AIs, agents, LLM that can create videos…
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after another 9 years we'll probably have a real AI and more video sources, so even quadrillions of Base64 will become obsolete.
youtubes doesnt check for bad words btw
4:11 Tech Limbo video
vimeo does just fine numbering videos.
Nice with the cam movement
After 9 years, I can confirm there are still many video IDs avalible
cant believe i could let myself get rick rolled like that
"One Take!" at the end got me
Thank you, now Im sure that my favorite videos with cats wont be deleted.
u can use incremental numbers if you are not dumb af
Are you back Buddy…???
We are gathered here, 9 years later, to watch this video.
what is gocwRvLhDf8 yapping bout
am i the only one who recognised the url at the start its rick roll
Cemento Armato
1:48 theres a sock on the ground yes
4:08 the limbo technical incident
so peak
the funniest was that the url was litteraly never gonna give you up
Youtube : "Oh no we already on max capacity video ,73,786,976,294,838,206,464 video !,oh well"
*Youtube add 1 more character
Can anyone explain what's that sock on 1:48
Great video.
0:07
i typed the url in …
who else cheked the link at the beggining
you could have just said that last part from the start
Spitting out these numbers in one take is as incredible as the info in this video
not gonna say it, but im gonna say it. im 6 seconds in the video, looking at the url, no question, no hesitation, that url leads to the most prized video in the world that lies here in youtube. def plug that into your search bar and watch it. wont regeret it
This video looks like a walk in the park
I have made a fictional base 67 system, the same as 64, but with equals, underscore and minus.
4:07, anyone remember that one Geometry Dash video with the N-Word written in all caps right at the end of the url?
جالب بود
3:20 ouch scratch
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idk why but this is my favorite tom scott video. the way he delivers it is so good, it gets me so hyped up like wow I FREAKING LOVE NUMBERS!!!!
I wonder if the really check it's not in use.. or if they do, have they ever matched?
If they run out just increase it from 11 to 12, or just add symbols like %$#@!^*+]=)",