Youtube is down! Begin speculation

http://www.youtube.com/

nothing happens nor do embeded videos on sites work. Wonder how long it'll last...

OK, it's back up but it was down for quite a while before I made that post. Amazing that such a big company can go down and not have suitable backup...

Might be your service provider having DNS issues. Did you run a DNS Check?

Good point but other people I know had the same problem too.