It's Tuesday, April 24, 2007, and other than Beyoncé & Shakira singing Beautiful Liar on the radio, nothing much is happening.
For someone called haroldlky, whose real identity is currently unknown, at least part of that day was spent opening a channel on YouTube, a video site that was yet to celebrate its second birthday.
On that day more than 17 years ago, the fledgling YouTuber uploaded three videos that appear to have an engineering theme. The total running time for the trio, a modest 42 seconds.
Whether 'haroldlky' was content with less than 400 views in total over the next 17 years, or whether he even visited YouTube ever again, is completely unknown. If he visited today, he might be a little surprised.
After suddenly bursting back to life two weeks ago, three new videos were uploaded to his channel. All of these uploads were movies (Eragon, The King, and The Green Knight) dubbed in Hindi, and have since been viewed 376,000 times.
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