YouTube's First Video Is 20 Years Old: How Things Have Changed

We went viral in the early days of YouTube - here's how it's changed our lives

It’s now 20 years since the first YouTube video was uploaded (Picture: Getty) Charlie and Harry are at university now studying law and business. They’re preparing to join the workforce, but you probably know them as the toddlers in one of the most viewed videos of all time. They are the two children who accidentally went viral, after their dad tried to share a candid – hilarious – moment with family in the early days of YouTube. Today is the 20t…

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