The well-known YouTuber Tom Scott started an experiment four years ago: a video that changes its title automatically. But at some point, it is going to break – and that’s also the point. We explain the background.

What is the purpose of the video? The millions-of-subscribers YouTuber Tom Scott released this video in April 2020 for one purpose only: A program he wrote regularly changes the title. Currently, it translates to: “This video has 72,119,798 views.” The goal is to always provide the most up-to-date view count as a number.

Therefore, in the linked YouTube video below, you will read a different number.

So does the title change with each view? No, not exactly. Because neither does Scott’s program query the views that regularly, nor does YouTube update the view counts every second. But the number does match, as you can see from the title and the views, more or less.

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What is the purpose behind Tom Scott’s experiment?

Why is Tom Scott doing this? The background of the video is easy to explain. Tom Scott wants to show that eventually every code becomes outdated as technology advances. Then it needs to be adapted or completely discarded. In this video, the latter will happen.

Will the video eventually be inaccessible? No, as long as YouTube exists and Tom Scott keeps it online, it is very likely to be viewable. But at some point – if Scott is correct – the automatic title change will fail, and the title will remain the same eternally.

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Why will the code stop working? Software is constantly changing, especially large code environments like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and others undergo continuous changes. And a program like the one from Tom Scott relies on querying data from the provider and modifying it. Once this capability is altered or even completely removed, it will no longer work.

Similar events have occurred in the past with other so-called APIs. He also talks about this in his video.

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Archaeologists unearthed a treasure 60 years ago. Meanwhile, we now know that humans must have already used iron from a meteorite thousands of years ago, and this was significantly before the actual Iron Age.

In 1663, archaeologists discovered the treasure of Villena: This is one of the largest hoard finds of gold objects that had been excavated from the ground. The collection consists of 59 artifacts that were unearthed near Alicante in Spain.

However, what is special about the treasure are two small objects made of gold and oxidized iron: a hollow hemisphere and a bracelet. Three thousand years ago – which is the estimated date of the treasure – iron was not yet widely used. Instead, iron was regarded as a precious metal and not yet as a material for weapons or tools.

Humans used metal from meteorites for their jewelry

What is special about the metal? In 2007, the treasure was re-examined, and microscopic samples were taken from the objects in the form of rust flakes. However, the investigations did not yield any new insights.

At the end of 2023, German and Spanish researchers investigated the metal again; this is reported by the magazine Greekreporter.com. Here, it was found that apart from iron, a high nickel content is also detectable in the jewelry pieces. And this precisely indicates that the pieces were made from extraterrestrial iron:

Meteorite iron occurs in certain types of aeolites, which, because they come from outer space, consist of an iron-nickel alloy with a variable nickel composition of more than 5 weight percent.

They also contain other chemical trace and minor elements, of which cobalt is one of the most important. However, the nickel content in terrestrial iron is generally low or very low and often undetectable in analysis.

What does the discovery mean? This discovery allows researchers to date the treasure significantly later. Currently, it is suspected that the objects must originate from the end of the Bronze Age. A time when no large amounts of iron were produced or used on Earth yet. This did not happen until 400 years later.

The study led by the Spanish National Archaeological Museum suggests that the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula possessed more advanced metalworking techniques than previously assumed.

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