![Goodbye YouTubers': Grandfather who became an internet sensation with his home-made videos telling heartfelt and funny anecdotes about his life passes away | Daily Mail Online Goodbye YouTubers': Grandfather who became an internet sensation with his home-made videos telling heartfelt and funny anecdotes about his life passes away | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/26/article-2589699-1C93599A00000578-554_634x656.jpg)
Goodbye YouTubers': Grandfather who became an internet sensation with his home-made videos telling heartfelt and funny anecdotes about his life passes away | Daily Mail Online
![Peter Oakley dead: The 'Internet Grandad', whose YouTube channel was once the most popular in the world, dies aged 86 | The Independent | The Independent Peter Oakley dead: The 'Internet Grandad', whose YouTube channel was once the most popular in the world, dies aged 86 | The Independent | The Independent](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/03/25/15/peter-oakley.jpg?width=1200)
Peter Oakley dead: The 'Internet Grandad', whose YouTube channel was once the most popular in the world, dies aged 86 | The Independent | The Independent
![Sunnie Huang on Twitter: ""Internet grandad" Peter Oakley died at 86. #geriatric1927 http://t.co/XW4KIuMOIY http://t.co/2obYnTAVov" / Twitter Sunnie Huang on Twitter: ""Internet grandad" Peter Oakley died at 86. #geriatric1927 http://t.co/XW4KIuMOIY http://t.co/2obYnTAVov" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjwZM9UCAAAAlac.jpg)
Sunnie Huang on Twitter: ""Internet grandad" Peter Oakley died at 86. #geriatric1927 http://t.co/XW4KIuMOIY http://t.co/2obYnTAVov" / Twitter
![The Duke of Edinburgh (left) with You Tube star Peter Oakley, 81, from Derbyshire, who uses the web name geriatric1927, and has posted more than 100 video diaries at Google's British headquarters, The Duke of Edinburgh (left) with You Tube star Peter Oakley, 81, from Derbyshire, who uses the web name geriatric1927, and has posted more than 100 video diaries at Google's British headquarters,](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GB6C2P/the-duke-of-edinburgh-left-with-you-tube-star-peter-oakley-81-from-GB6C2P.jpg)
The Duke of Edinburgh (left) with You Tube star Peter Oakley, 81, from Derbyshire, who uses the web name geriatric1927, and has posted more than 100 video diaries at Google's British headquarters,
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![Goodbye YouTubers': Grandfather who became an internet sensation with his home-made videos telling heartfelt and funny anecdotes about his life passes away | Daily Mail Online Goodbye YouTubers': Grandfather who became an internet sensation with his home-made videos telling heartfelt and funny anecdotes about his life passes away | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/scaled/2014/03/26/article-2589699-1C94B42600000578-262_636x382.jpg)
Goodbye YouTubers': Grandfather who became an internet sensation with his home-made videos telling heartfelt and funny anecdotes about his life passes away | Daily Mail Online
![You Tube star Peter Oakley, 81, from Derbyshire, who uses the web name geriatric1927, and has posted more than 100 video diaries at Google's British headquarters, in Buckingham Palace Road, central London, You Tube star Peter Oakley, 81, from Derbyshire, who uses the web name geriatric1927, and has posted more than 100 video diaries at Google's British headquarters, in Buckingham Palace Road, central London,](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GB6C1R/you-tube-star-peter-oakley-81-from-derbyshire-who-uses-the-web-name-GB6C1R.jpg)