One timeline
We started counting at zero when the non-avian dinosaurs died off. Open this on two screens and both follow the same counter.
Counting since the dinosaurs died off
What did you think this was?
GUID?
The count started at zero 66 million years ago—when the dinosaurs died off. Now one globally synchronized GUID advances one million times a second.
Current globally assigned identifier
The GUID right now
1,000,000 GUIDs / second
- Generated so far
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- Still to go
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- Progress
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Estimated time remaining
— years
Give or take a leap second.
128 bits
That gives us 340 undecillion possible values. It turns out “all of them” is a fairly ambitious backlog.
Zero utility
These are sequential, UUID-shaped numbers—not IDs for your production database. This machine is artfully unemployed.