Re: IMG_0416

At last, I’m writing something in reaction to an article I had put aside for a long time now. It’s called “IMG_0416” and was published in November 2024. If I remember correctly, I stumbled on it via Hacker News. In his article, Ben writes about a now long defunct feature of the earliest versions of iOS, called “Send to YouTube”, which allowed iPhone users to upload videos to YouTube in one touch, likely without realizing it. It was active between 2009 and 2012. An interesting thing about this feature was the names given to the files of the videos recorded by the iPhone, which also turned out to be the title of the video once uploaded on YouTube. Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, where XXXX is a unique sequence number. The first image you take is named “IMG_0001”, the second is “IMG_0002” and so on. During the Send to YouTube era of 2009 and 2012, the title of one’s YouTube video was defaulted to this naming convention.…