And just like all those, in November 2005, I started a account on YouTube, back when it was run by two guys who originally wanted to make it some kind of Hot or Not style internet dating site thing using videos, but when that failed, they decided to use the tech just for allowing people to post their own video content. I found out about it without knowing this, I just knew it was new, and saw it on a car forum I frequently visit to take care of one of my vehicles. I thought "cool, maybe I'll play with this at some point", like I Do all new internet tech things that are free. IF I like it, I'll stick with it.

THe original intent was to create a vintage computing channel based around the 8088-80486 PC, that was the origina plan. I came just a little while before LGR started his channel, but I never really got to the computer stuff, because at the time, I was also raising hell on guitar forums trying to show that Offset Fenders were legitimate instruments for playing hard rock and heavy metal music, especially the vibrato part of the equation.

I named the channel "CreepingNet" because YouTube wouldn't allow the name to be a long title like "The Creeping Network" - this shows my intentions right off the bat. I was a little soured on playing in a band, though I Was a bit fantastical about it....fantasies are fun, but I was going to show how to use a 486 or early Pentium as a daily driver in 2006. The plan was I would get a cheap folding table at a thrift shop, and basically teach vintage A+ Certification level techniques on old computers, while I made money working on modern ones by day.

But my shoestring budget was an issue. First off, NOBODY made money on YouTube back then, we weren't even "YouTubers" yet, we were just people in their bedrooms, garages, our wherever, making videos for fun. And I did not have money for a nice webcam. I was using a cheap Logitech QuickCam on a Pentium III in a 386 case that I'd put together myself, with the most expensive bit being my first LCD on top - a Samsung SyncMaster 710MP TV/Monitor combo. All my videos wewre made using the Logitech Software, with my guitar run direct into the SoundBlaster when I did guitar videos, or recorded on a older Flight 386 SX PC I'd put a AMD K6 motherboard into and used a Dazzle Snazzi PCI capture card to capture the NIntendo when I did some of the first corruption videos on the platform in late 2006.

It was from there, that I started to garner an audience, which was surprising, as I was not motivated to do this for any other reason, than to see the process, and see how it would go, not that I did not appreciate the comments and praise and whatever that I got. It was just that that wasn't expected. It was a very honest transaction: I post videos, I let them sit, people watch them, they comment, I reply...it was a good way to keep some socialization as I was already going down a less social path already due to a lot of hurt and pain in my past - even then.

I knew that this gravy train of new free video making would not last and decided to enjoy it. I think the first limit was 3 years, but soon I noticed I had 500 subscribers, then 1000 subscribers....my channels viewership kept growing, and all I was doing was posting candid, unedited videos of me doing things I enjoyed. That's what it was all about, community and sharing, and that's about it. And I was cool with that. Sure, there were some serious flame warriors out there I had to have some fights with, like the infamous QuantumCarl stalking me over a comedy cartoon video where a violin sounded like a Trumpet....lol, or getting into the periodic scuffle with Hipsters and Nirvana Relgious Followers in the comments over my playing hair metal on a Jag-Stang or Jaguar, or my rampant, Kirk-Hammett-Like abuse of the chorus pedal.

In 2008, Google bought YouTube and I knew why and what was up. YouTube had several high-profile outages due to running out of space, running out of bandwidth, or just being taxed hard by all the newcomers to the platform over 2006 and 2007. It was quite fun to be a part of something that new in such a large capacity, even if I wasn't the most popular thing you'd find on there. I knew since a major Corporation was buying them out, it would change, even if they promised to keep it the same, it would change, and change it did, indeed.

By 2010, through one of Google's changes - the Partner Program - a program that guaranteed if people clicked on ads on your video you'd get payment (and I Was a part of it for a few years), I knew the writing was on the wall, my kind was not going to continue to be riding the gravy train of fun that we had been. This was going to eventually grow to be a COMMERCIAL platform, with a focus on whose the most productive "Content Creator" making the most watched videos that generate the most revenue from the most ads. And I was, in 2010 - 100% RIGHT ON! By then I was 27, in a relationship, and had my career going, and was in some fairly successful local bands that were doing pretty well.

What I Did not expect was the multiple vectors that kept me coming back....

I'd quit RetroComputing in 2011, only to come back in 2012 when LGR Started posting his videos. It inspired me to get up and keep going with some vintage PC content (though I struggled a LOT at first), evne though those were my lowest viewed, lowest charting videos on my channel to that point. All of a sudden now, it was cool to be playing with 8088's and 486s, not a "loser hobby" for guys with "too much time on their hands". Honestly, hoo-boy was I right on in the 2000's when I said this stuff would become retro, because it sure did, it's so retro now, they're making new 386 laptops to play DOS games now.

As the retrogaming thing came back, I reluctantly got into a new game which had become popular, Five Nights at Freddy's, I decided to have a little fun with that around 2015-2018. I really hated the game for I tried searching for a band I was in years after the fact - Murderock - and the lead singer was named Fred, so I looked up "horror band fred" and got a description of the game that sounded like a Furry Sleepover: Spend the night with Freddy and his Friends in this chilling mystery of a pizzaria" or some such dreck. Only to find out it was a fun survival horror game.

Then things were calming down AGAIN, then in 2020, I decided to build a guitar - a reprise of the first electric guitar I built in High School, in tribute to Edward Van-Halen. And my channel exploded - everything from former bandmates to former viewers came flocking back to see this Offset Bumblebee guitar I'd basically built from scratch on my apartment patio. I couldn't believe it, because I was planning to quit the next year.

So I got Dragon Warrior IV and had the quartet - THAT is where my final retirement took shape. I decided to play the last 4 Dragon Warrior Games, and then in 2026, Dragon Warrior IV would be the final recordings you would see from me. With one final video in 2026 that's on schedule other than the Dragon Warrior game I'll be finishing (so every Sunday will be Dragon Warrior IV in 2026 until I beat the game).