The Nerdy Sixty | (31/60) YouTube’s Robot Uprising | Solution

Check YouTube’s robots.txt file. It contains a humorous comment about a “robotic uprising.” What does it say?

Hint 1: Fetch youtube.com/robots.txt and read the commented lines at the top.

Hint 2: It mentions “the distant future (the year 2000)” and a “robotic uprising of the mid 90’s”.

Solution:

YouTube’s robots.txt has a commented Easter egg: “# robots.txt file for YouTuben# Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after the robotic uprising of the mid 90’s which wiped out all humans…” referencing a faux future scenario.