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 threadmesa
The guy who made that code has probably loooong gone. And it worked before.
Feb 5, 2024 at 3:22amWeb