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Wikipedia dropped this UUID in 2014. Now it's everywhere

550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Recognise it? GitHub's code search reckons it's in about 303,000 files. That's twice as many as 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000 , the other example UUID you've probably seen, and more than any other I tried apart from the all-zeros one. A fresh random one t…

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  1. 2026-11-03 16:38 · DEV Community — AI
    Wikipedia dropped this UUID in 2014. Now it's everywhere

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