Will YouTube Ever Run Out Of Video IDs?
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2016
- In the URL of each CZcams video is the 11-character video ID, unique for each video. Can they ever run out? Just how many videos can CZcams handle? To work it out, we need to talk about counting systems, and about something called Base 64.
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Filmed by Matt Gray, who's at mattg.co.uk
or @unnamedculprit on basically everything everywhere.
"If they did, they can just add one more character."
Why is the top comment for me one with 3 likes, no replys, and one that was posted 20 hours ago (get ready for a lot of notifications of "👍 someone liked your comment)
The youtube algorithm truly is a mystery
@@DiscordMistake This video is 4 years old and I think I'm one of the few that watched it and commented this late, so I guess that's why it's the top one😂
ONE TAKE!!!
1 TAKE!!!
POV: You are on your way home and some dude following you lectures you about number systems.
Underrated comment lmao
LMAOOO
AHHAHAHAHAHWHAHAHAHAHQHAH
With a cameraman next to him.
AHAHAHA
I love how Tom's just standing there stoically at the end, but then keeps the bit of him jumping around in circles in the video
"I paused and gave myself time for my reaction so that we would have a clean cut later."
"Nah, we'll leave it in!"
I literally came here to like the vid for Tom's victory dance!!!
0:05 bench
0:11 flag
0:56 castle
1:46 glove
2:11 cone
2:26 lantern
2:52 staircase
3:10 bush
3:18 bin
I just replied to be a part of history
Ok
What the point of it ?
Glove hehehehe
bush
4:25 was damn impressive, amazes me how Tom manages to remember all this in one take
Never expected you here, even after 4 years.
Yo wassup
WebKeyLock Nope yh damnnn
Prob a letter at the camera ofc
Hi
1:46 moment of silence for the person who lost their glove tho
*and this to the the limit*
Agree 🤣
At 2:11 there's a weird plastix thing on the ground, like why are there random objets ond the ground of this video?
Xeno Seven it was taken in one shot
Xeno Seven those things are to guide people along a track, it are basically smaller traffic cones.
Adding just 1 more character brings this up to about 4,722,366,482,869,640,000,000. This is enough for everyone to upload a video every minute and still last ~1,152,000 years.
we still need one more
All the number stuff is cool and all, but seeing Tom get so thrilled over doing this in one take is just adorable.
It's impressive that this was taken in one take.
- Floppy - I think that's an understatement
whats impressive about it?
except for all the junk laying around in the shots...
Lemme guess, you got rick rolled?
@darklordster 2 years later...
0:06 I know that id from a mile away
cQ. cQ.
Ya.
@RevolutionaryGhost Never gonna run around and desert you
Rickroll flashbangs
Eat your cereal kid
I'm not sure if I'm more impressed by the one take, or the memorizing of 64^11. Well, no, I'm deeply impressed by both.
He would have used cue cards
I love the last part. He just stands there awkwardly then all of a sudden starts yelling, "One take! One take!" while jumping vigorously. 😂
0:04 that's the ID of "Rick Astley: Never gonna give you up"
I could recognize it everywhere.
Corallu saw that too xD
Same here. I was looking for anyone who also noticed.
Doubt it
Same got rickrolld
Same lmao
When you recognize the url you can never be rick rolled again
Sound Breaker
Unless they use a different video
Ever heard of reuploads
wish i read this before typing it in...
dQ
N o p e
yep, knew it once it showed up
4:13 yter geometry dash video had the n word today as the url 😅
Man I KNEW there were going to be people coming from Tech, I was instantly reminded of this video the moment I saw the URL
4:13 Technical after beating limbo
"no word will appear up there, particularly anything rude"
the 1 in 992M chance that a certain word would appear in the link, all caps, not separated by anything:
Tom: yes one take!
Camera guy: Wait what is this black cap on the lense again?
😂
XD
Imagine how pissed Tom would be
😂
XD
haha sand
4:57 I can understand how proud you are when you said all that in 1 take, even that huuuge number you memorized.
N4r0 I believe it’s a teleprompter
me: _laughs in 3.141592653589793238462643383279508841972639397520582097494459230782640628630898628034825342117067_
@@oxybrightdark8765 the drone shot at the beginning. It might have been ab libbed
@@hobogrifter drone shot? that's just the camera person walking.
@@oxybrightdark8765 I don't think it is. An Osmo was mentioned at the end, and there would be no way to mount a teleprompter to an Osmo.
Coming in from the future to inform you that Yout|Tube does not run urls through a dictionary and are in fact not filtered
Examples?
@@runefaustblack google "technical limbo url".
@runefaustblack look up "technical limbo link" and go to images. second result.
Tom's "one take" dance is literally the cutest thing youtube has to offer 🤗
So this is how Elon musk named his child
elon planned ahead
I’m dying of laughter
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mm yes that’s a nice url
Æ-011
Let's just appreciate the fact that this was filmed in one take.
He's just too lazy to cut anything
@@backfisch_op6297 Are you serious?
One walk at that.
@@lok4890
Of course not you moron.
@@rouge5140 To be honest, the stupidity levels of people in the internet is off the scales right now. I just cant tell
4:17 typing the url in shows “this video is not available *anymore.”* i wonder what it was
Tom’s excitement at one take is the wholesome ending I needed.
That last part really hit me. The fact that even if we do run out of URLs all they have to do is add one more character and that would be enough to do 64 times the amount of time it would take to fill the last amount of videos
same with passwords.
If a technology comes around, that can bruteforce my 12+ alphadecimal character password, well, I'll just add a character. Or, just for the fun, add two.
My master PW has 17 btw, so overkill, but I remember it.
@@skoniramont if you're using anything less than a 200 character password then you're not doing it right. I don't even think quantum computers would be capable of brute forcing a 200 character password in any reasonable amount of time. Not for a while anyway
@@the_undead how would i remember such a password?
@@DaxterKing get a better memory. It's not that hard
@@the_undead no
After 5 years ive only just noticed that the URL at the start is a rickroll ..... Well played Tom!
hah it took 5 years but we got it
Lmao
great spoil
i immediately recognised it but couldnt figure out why
I watch xQc on Twitch a lot, and I know the end of 'Never Gonna Give You Up' video URL is XcQ which is similar to xQc - so I never get caught out.
What a way of closing the video, blowing out your mind!! Even more, love it
Tom Scott: Makes video almost perfectly
Sock: Let us introduce ourselves
When i saw the "XcQ" at the end of the url i immediately thought, "this is a rickroll, this is a rickroll" and i still decided to put the url in knowing damn well i was gonna get rickrolled.
dQw4 is memorized in my head
@@p_rry
Same haha
@@p_rry for me it's dQw4w
When two Q = rickroll
I memorised dQw4w9W
This was a West Wing worthy one take walk and talk scene
This.
Aaron Sorkin would be very impressed.
One take Bartlett that’s what Jack Warner used to call me!
@@michaellynch4073 Two takes Bartlett, thats what Jack Warner used to call me...
One of my favourite scenes of the entire show.
All those numbers 😳😳😳....
I couldn't do them in ten takes 😂😂😂!
I haven't felt that amount of genuine joy since about ... 2003 or so...
It should be noted, you can do an incremental counter system, as long as you require a key to access it, which can be something as simple as the original title of the video. Many websites do this, where the url path will start with the ID number but have a slash after it that requires the title. So unlisted videos are safe, but you don't have to worry about ID collisions.
But is extremelly easy to just use UUID, which uses time to garantee uniqueness. Most DB's already has the algorithm or if not, you can just add into the DB or generate by code. Usually is an one line of code change.
4:25
Can we appreciate how they took this entire video in a continuous take, and have him do this?
top 10 rappers eminem is too scared to dis
Funfun
@@swiftarrow1174 diss*
@@nickxenix diss nuts
💀
4:24 this dude memorized 64^11 and I can't even remember my buddy's cellphone number
I can't even remember my own.
Yes im with you
I can't remember my own 😔
#1. Probably someone behind the cameraman is holding giant cue cards.
#2. In this day of age, nobody remembers phone numbers.
All important numbers are saved on our phones. Many people barely even call. I don't even remember my girlfriend's phone number yet we talk on the phone often.
Haha self deprecating idiots
Wow. I've wondered this for years and I'm so glad it came up on my recommended . Great video. 👍🏾
well, in the intro, you gave the limit of 11 characters and at that point, I knew the number possible IS finite. After watching the video, I didn't realize how large that finite number was. Thanks for the video.
Will this guy ever run out of video ideas?
technically yes, practically no
@Nildtz fax
Technically yes
Practically no
well yes but actually no
@@Nildtz wh.. what
This camera man is really good, walking backwards down stairs... moving the camera out the way of people walking nearby etc. Tom, you're also good at not losing concentration and acknowledging the camera mans intent :P
It was a drone filming. I'm pretty sure, however it depends on his favourite methods.
agreed
Wow, what sorcery got you to respond in
errr would you not hear if it was a drone ?
+Jack Miller (dayday246) Not a drone
Well, thank you Tom for reminding me of some stuff we learnt last year when I finished both my Maths, Further Maths and Computer Science A-levels. We did the bases mainly in Further Maths and Computer Science though! We went up to Base 128, that was quite hard.
This was honestly extremely satisfying to watch
“Every human on earth to upload a video every minute”
Content farms: “is this a challenge?”
*5 Minute crafts has entered the chat*
*T-series has entered the chat*
*That one channel Tom covered that uploaded a bunch of videos and then left has entered the chat*
"It is ridiculous and unnecessary but... when has that ever stopped programmers?"
Very true.
oOMoepOo I always find myself compressing a few lines of code into a function/method even though I use it once, just to make it look cleaner.
Programmers: UNLIMITED POWEEEEER!!
@@gibbonbasher8171 it's called readability. And it's never unnecessary
Igniter Fuse I can understand readability but when it wouldn’t make a difference in terms of readability it really isn’t necessary.
666
I just saw the link at the beginning and recognized it, but I wasn't sure where from. Then I looked it up. Well played Tom, well played.
Great job on only doing one take, I know how hard that is. Especially the big number at the end :)
That video URL at the beginning seemed..
*familiar*
It's never gonna give you up.
@@Immadeus You know the rules, and so do I
@@mad8967
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
@@flowerbud5139 Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
@@mad8967 Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
1:45 Crossing my fingers this lost glove found a new apartment, had four kids and lived a happy marriage
I'm hopeful.
made me chuckle :)
O
Yo, it's a GLOVE not a baby.
@@sigmasquadleader glove lives matter too 😔✊
Whole video in one take. Its astonishing.
I didn't even noticed it was filmed in one take, great job
Good thing I've memorised the URL for Never Gonna Give You Up
+TheJman0205 I memorized it: dQw4w9WgXcQ
the ID of this video is gocwRvLhDf8 , I will try increment by one and gocwRvLhDf9 worked, but with not comments. why? in other videos worked too.
Probably video player app finds the closest url, but the comments app works only for exact urls!
same and the deez nuts one (im never getting pranked)
make the 8 in he URL a 9
“It’s up there in the url”
Me: **cries in moblie**
Me : Loughs in my latest apple [i.11]
Fredd Colour Green
Imma do it
R/wooosh
Metallisika Android fanboy both are fine
Metallisika do you hate anyone who has an apple
Metallisika well once they get iOS they cant save there data to android
The one take dance he did at the end is why I love watching him.
i just love the bloopers at the end of these cuz hes like completely serious and then bursts out laughing or something
0:06 Omg what ! That was the smartest rickroll ever.
Not really
@@Fahimlol Well it kinda was. But not for the people who memorized the link XD
@@c0met12 still not really. you are heavily underestimating how clever rickollers get.
@@Fahimlol @V1nner smh
@@elirogers1237 ??
0:04 *sees the youtube link id*
me : i understood that reference
Press f for the dude that typed it into their browser to experiment.
F
@@ThundererGamer is that guy you?
I typed it in my browser and as I was typing it I thought, i feel liek this is a rick roll, I called it
I saw dQ and i was like oh..
dQw4w9WgXcQ if you just want to copy paste ;-)
@@DownhillMC i have that engraved into my brain ,i know the rolls of the rick
Tom Scott saves the day with another essential piece of information.
The fact that the link at the beggining is a rickroll and that I recognized it is awesome
Im so proud of myself
Tom Scott: Excited over the entire 5 minutes in one take.
Me: Excited if I could even remember that number.
It's easy. Just say 'five' over and over in your head. Then just hold up all your fingers on one hand. Easy.
"hAHa, OnE tAkE!"
kormannn1 wait, it’s not one take?
@@dotXyore
They mean the number of CZcams IDs possible
@@user-qd7zb4wm9b he's joking
0:04 You can’t fool me, I know that link anywhere.
"302 Redirect would like to chat..."
Rick Astley would like to know your location
Is Never Gonna Give you up
That link is never gonna give you up.
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP!
NEVER GONNA LET DOWN!
I have never thought about them running put of urls but this video was extremely interesting.
can we all appreciate how much work he put into all of his videos?
(a) he probably does a lot of takes, and (b) he uses a teleprompter. He admitted it in a recent interview.
@@ajs41but...
One take! One take!
4:24 top 10 rappers eminem would be afraid to diss
yes
SpectrumYT__ - sounds like a person doing an auction
@@chris07674 haha sand
666 likes i cant press the like button im sorry
It has passed 666 by 2 likes
That abandoned glove on the ground...
+hackum1 Wake me up inside...save mee
1:42
+hackum1 I'm guessing it wasn't actually abandoned and was actually placed there by the people making the video and was being used as a marker.
+hackum1 I was hoping he'd pick it up without a comment and put it in his pocket, then notice a banana and do likewise, gathering more and more odd things without ever mentioning them.
+Tom Scott I've actually found a word in the url many times... including rude ones. But it is rare.
CZcams running out of storage in their servers will be a bigger issue than running out of video IDs
My mind is already blown that this was one take, but then ever more blown that he didn't do 'uhh, umm, aa' and break the continuity of the script.
Everyone is talking about the one take but what about how smooth the camera guy was?
there is a technology called gimbal
@@gagassurya19 Yes. The stabilizer...great piece of technology
Backwards and in high heels
@@mrstaemin7958 😂
sadly not in 60fps
0:06 Haha, very funny joke there, Tom.
rickroll
Imagine not memorizing every possible rick roll in existence
Rickroll obviously
I memorized the link when I saw it
I knew it was a rick roll!
I love coming back to this video just to watch the "Tom Scott One Take Dance"
It's so hilarious
Just in case you ever thought about trying to put in a random 11 character URL to see what video you got, think again. With over 73 Quintillion possible combinations, and anywhere between 5 and 10 billion videos on CZcams currently, this means that on average you could expect to find a random video attached to the random URL you came up with ONCE every 73 MILLION attempts (and that is if there are 10 billion videos on youtube, the generous side of the range).
Thanks I watched the vid tho
_i’m gonna keep trying goddammit_
In other words, it takes a hella lot of effort to get a boomer to get Rick Rolled by url only.
So if you Type a Random 11 Characters and the Video doesn't Exist does it Just Say Video Unavailable? Cause that's What Happened to me.
Lets make 72 Quintilion videos
Tom: "Don't use incremental counters" Me, with no programming knowledge: "Best note that"
haha...me too
But Facebook is USING incremental counters in profil id
@@ferhatbeztout1447 which is bad.
haha, same bro
@@nope1959 yes i mean , they shouldn't , why do they do that ?
0:05 damn, after so many times I've been blessed by that url
Not bad
Love that u memorized that and did it in one take
I've always wondered if CZcams will ever run out of channel ID's, now my life is complete
@@jfizz6140 no
@@jfizz6140 it could in 1000 years
@@woKaa And even then, every human has to upload every minute for that to happen. I doubt there’s _that_ many videos uploaded.
dont die, if you need to figure out how, just ask!
2:11 *someone left their cone for PE.*
LMAO
I would like, but its at 69 likes so I won't change it.
@@Shums5205 There is no point, someone will do it anyway.
@@GamerboyAli I know, but let's make it last as long as we can :)
1:47 and they lost a sock
The rules in the Netherlands require that invoice numbers are consecutive, optionally reset each year and prepended with the 4-digit year number. I’ve always found that a big giveaway about a companies throughput.
It's good to know if you watched a video and you think like "oh that was not wasted time" I appreciate your work really much :)
4:24
Me:That's a big numbet. props for not messing it up. There wasn't even a cut. I wonder how many takes it took to get that right.
4:56
DEAR MOTHER OF GOD...
WONE TAKE!!
It does help that you really knows how Base64, Hexadecimals, and other things important to this subject, so you can talk about it in normal way, in one take. It also helps you remembering the numbers of, or even making up the calculation of the CZcams URL probability correctly as you speak.
It's also how live speakers in conferences presenting their materials. Knowing the material well can help you ramble about it in informative way with little breaks and mistakes in one go.
Probably had it written on an 'idiot board' under the camera ...
XD
Tom Scott Wins the best one take video ever.
Legend has it Tom walked across the country in this video
that pfp is cursed oh my god
@@fighterash1294 bruh..
alexandra palace
@@halloweenlover1031 yours is blessed.
Nb rights ❤️
@@asparagusperson in Hastings ?
Lovely video and explanation. Thanks!!
the fact that this was one take is insane, especially with that huge number
1:45 so we’re just gonna ignore the lonely glove in the corner?
Inserts forever alone meme here
All around me are familiar faces
burned bread s t o l e n
If it fits you must acquit
@M H I also thought it is a sock. :-)
Always come back to see this whole video just to hear Tom scream "ONE TAKE! ONE TAKE!"
xgffhc ffxgxfgxxgdxxgddxdfxdfxdxfxd
Its super precious 😝
This is so sad
Alexa, play despacito
Base 64 - What everything gets converted into when plain text is the only transport method.
This is the thought I have about every system I have used. Purchase order refs at work, the Internet, CZcams.
I actually maxed out the rows of an excel spreadsheet at work once.
Nice views of ally pally!
3:43 "That's already a quarter of a million"
*So guys, we did it*
250,000 subscribers
The fact that we reached this number in such a short amount of time is just phenomenal
We just reached 2.610.000 subscribers
Damn, that Pyrocynical reference. Also, _petscop 2_
Wow you're here
1:45 The handthing on the ground be like:
*Very fcking interesting*
You mean...
A glove?
@@Xarion hell yea
*handthing*
@@-irene-29 yee
- I found a lost handthing; is someone missing their handthing?
After 6 years i've only just noticed that the URL at the start is a rickroll... Well played, Tom!
loved your explanation
4:07
Fun fact: a Splatoon song on CZcams has the F word in the URL. For those interested, the song is titled “Ebb & Flow” and was uploaded by DeoxysPrime.
I will forever thank you for this specifically piece of information
I was expecting the Video ID to be 6hGfUck19Af or something, but turns out it’s even better than that
Damn that's the greatest url I have ever seen
It's literally H3y f*** [Error] 4o4 A
H3yfUcK4o4A
Of all things it had to be Ebb & Flow, that’s amazing
*Puts in ID shown at **0:07* well played sir... well played...
never gonna let you downn
never gonna give you upp xD
ive been waiting, for so long.
minute that url went up i recognised the vid id immediately. mainly because i love that song. also its the only song with that XcQ ending.
CardriderDraw - Level2 you don't need to learn the video id. there was literally ONLY one possibility from the moment I noticed that it was a youtube link
Tom is the BEST
i love how i just know the rickroll url at the top of the screen out of my head
Well done on the ONE TAKE!
The ID at the start is
Never gonna give you up
hahaha nice
It seriously is, i typed it in xD
i did the same
Rick roll
I had it memorized so I knew right away
4:25 Most impressive thing I witnessed in my entire life.
And all in one take, no jump cuts
Reminds me when I was a child when we scribble an endless number of zeros on the wall and randomly make up a name for that value.
You should look up people that can memorize thousands of digits of Pi
@@axelfoley5265 π
@@t.teo_ oof
Iq 9000
The ending is 🔥
That one take celebration at the end was great.
some dude: *discussing math n other stuff*
cameraman: hey uh i’m kinda scared of walking backwards i don’t wanna trip on anything
its a drone my dude
@@xPeopleKindx It's a guy. His name's Matt Gray
@@xPeopleKindx drone would make a lot of noise
@@xPeopleKindx No his name is Matt
@@xPeopleKindx
That's Matt we all love matt
“64 is another of those easy numbers for computers,”
Notch is a Genius
stacc
64 is also the number of blocks it takes to make up an entire cube. :]
Notch and Nintendo 64: *chuckles in square*
You have 64 likes. Won't ruin this moment.
Ivy The Fish 😂
can we just appreciate his efforts 🐐🐐
The URL shown at the start is so well known, recognized it immediately