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Oct 16, 2026 18 min

Routers, The Internet and YouTube Offline - Computerphile

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Routers carry the traffic of the internet, we talk to Dr Richard Mortier about how they work and what happened to YouTube when a government censorship exercise went wrong.IP Addresses: http://youtu.be/L6bDA5FK6gs Floating Point Numbers: http://youtu.be/PZRI1IfStY0 The VR Cave: http://youtu.be/STMcWUtQr1Y Busy Beaver Turing Machines: http://youtu.be/CE8UhcyJS0I nb: the prefixes that Dr Mortier did in his head should actually have been 128.243.128/24 and 128.243.0/24http://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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