Neat little video on how youtube generates video ids and why

[mouser]

Neat little video on the video url ids that youtube uses, with side discussions on base64 and why not to use incremental numbering for online url ids:

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

from waxy.org

[Deozaan]

Interesting video. Thanks.

I never realized it was essentially base-64 with the "/" changed to a "_"

[phitsc]

Funny how speaking while walking seemed to be no problem, but saying that really huge number seemed to be rather exhausting