How does the URL on YouTube videos know that the unique part of the URL is case-sensitive?

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Whenever I go to YouTube or any website at all, it doesn’t matter if I write the website name in lowercase letters or uppercase letters, I will land on the same website. But whenever we go to a video and even replace 1 letter with lowercase or uppercase, the link doesn’t work.

How does the URL know that one section is not case-sensitive while the other section is case-sensitive?

I can understand why that’s the case. To keep the URLs unique. just in case something similar comes up. But what’s happening behind the scenes?

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Everything is case sensitive because the binary representation of upper and lower case letters is different.
It’s a deliberate choice to create a program or operating system that does not distinguish between lower and upper case.

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