See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Charlie Bit My Finger, the most-viewed viral video of all time with ...

Before TikTok and before influencers, a chaotic 56-second home video basically invented what going viral looked like. If you were anywhere near a computer in 2007, you saw “Charlie Bit My Finger” ...

While it may seem silly to archive 'Charlie bit my finger' for future generations, it's good practice to treat the internet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the video, one of the first on YouTube to cross over into mainstream culture, 3-year-old British tyke Harry sticks his finger ...

On February 14, 2005, a little media platform known as YouTube came to life. Since its internet inception, YouTube has housed billions of videos, not only making stars out of ordinary people, but also ...

Charlie will soon bite his brother’s finger for the last time. The memorable and meme-able YouTube video “Charlie bit my finger,” one of the most viewed videos in the website’s history, was auctioned ...

But it turns out that the well-known artifact of YouTube’s early days will be staying on the video platform. In the video, which was uploaded in May 2007 and became one of the first on YouTube to ...