User:Jorgenev/Wadsworth constant
The Wadsworth constant is an internet meme that originated on the social media website reddit in October 2011. The constant is 30% which is alleged to be the portion of an internet video that can be skipped at the beginning without missing anything important.[1][2][3] Shortly after its conception an engineer at Google added an easter egg to YouTube where appending &wadsworth=1 to a video URL would start it 30% of the way in.[4][5]
References
- ^ Kevin Collier. "How the Wadsworth Constant will give you 50 percent more time". Daily Dot,.
- ^ Whitson Gordon. "Skip Past the Boring Intro on YouTube Videos with the Wadsworth Constant Bookmarklet". Lifehacker, 10/13/2011.
- ^ Kevin Collier. "How to watch 30 percent less YouTube". Daily Dot,.
- ^ Gary Cutlack. YouTube Adds Intro-Skipping "'Wadsworth Constant' to Player". Gizmodo, 10/20/2011.
- ^ Tim Meijerink. "tl;dr".