UsernameblankfaceFeb 4, 2024

in your opinion, what would meet the definition of "broke the Internet?"

https://lemmy.world/post/11555815

in your opinion, what would meet the definition of "broke the Internet?" - Lemmy.World

The term is quite over used in my opinion, it is very often used in hyperbole. Whether it is in terms of popularity and driving traffic to a website or a threat said to break the Internet, it doesn’t seem to live up to the meaning of the term.

Show threadRikudou_SageFeb 4, 2024
Gangnam Style - not quite the internet, but it got so many views that YouTube had to change the code used for displaying views count because it had more than 2,147,483,647 views (some of you may recognize it as the maximum number a signed 32 bit integer can store).
Show threadinvertedspearFeb 4, 2024
Did no one before that look at the schema and question the use of a signed int for a counter? That’s just bad design.
Show threadRikudou_Sage

I mean, yeah, it is a bad design but you have to remember that YouTube wasn’t always a Google owned service, this sounds exactly like the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a hobby project because no video ever will have more than 2 billion views, right?

So yeah, bad design but really easy to forget about for a video view counter.

Feb 4, 2024 at 8:21pmWeb