YouTube
YouTube is an online video platform where users can upload, watch, and share videos. It is owned and operated by Google.
In 2014, Psy's "Gangnam Style" overflowed YouTube's view counter. YouTube stored views as a 32-bit integer, capped at 2,147,483,647. When the video passed it, YouTube switched to a 64-bit counter. Contrary to the myth of a panicked rewrite, Google had foreseen it.
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At the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, Justin Timberlake tore Janet Jackson's costume, exposing her breast. The demand to share this video led to the creation of an easy video-sharing platform—now known as YouTube.
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