Will YouTube Ever Run Out Of Video IDs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8

Interactive, Publisher, Tom Scott, Video, YouTube

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.

30 March 2016 Edit: 12 November 2017


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