Let's address the YouTube thing first. I joined YouTube in November 2005 when I was still living with a platonic female friend and ex-roommate. In December, I bought a Fender Jaguar, during that time, I was looking at this new "platform" and noticing a distinct lack in "offset" videos as they are called now, as well as a total lack of anything on video games, or vintage computers. So I saw a niche, and I rolled with it, but not with the intentions someond today would have.

YouTube of 2005 was founded by 3 guys in 2005, Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steven Chen. It was NOT owned by Google, or any corporation for that matter. It was just a young upstart that hosted videos for fun - get it, YOU Tube, your own little "channel" on the internet to post whatever stuff you wanted, no matter how ridiculous, silly, or whatever. Back then, there was no money to be made, no partner program, no advertising, and almost all the what we now call "content creators" just made crap on USB webcams in their bedrooms, garages, basements, or xferred stuff off their Camcorder. Your videos were rated by "stars" - 1 (shitty) to 5 (great) - I usually averaged 3 4.5 stars at that time.

So that March, I moved out of my room mates house into my first apartment on my lonesome and had a lot of free time on my hands. I was 23, single, bored, working on getting my I.T. career started, and was living in Seattle - which if anybody knows of Seattle, the "Seattle Freeze" - yeah, it's a thing. So my way of being "Social" was to post some videos on YouTube and just see what happens. I used the name CreepingNet intended to build it eventually into a retro-computing channel for 8088-80486 PCs as I was kind of over the music thing at the time, and felt that was sort of my "calling card" anyway in my humble little niche by myself.

But after struggling to find a folding table for my intentions, I decided just to "put myself out there" and started going Guitar Videos. That's where I got popular, was in the guitar community very, very, early on. My whole point of my "offset videos" was to show that you did not need to use a specific guitar for a specific genre. I also made some small waves in the "Game COrruption" (Game GEnie Krazy Kodez - intentionally misspelled BTW) community, retro-gaming community, and dabbled a bit in some other things like lawn mower repair and auto mechanics here and there.

I almost quit in 2010 as life was getting pretty busy, and for awhile, my videos hit a lull. The uptick was in 2018 though when I posted a guitar I built and suddenly I get a bunch of hits and likes I wasn't expecting. So I decided, in 2018, I would keep this going until the 20th Anniversary - which is April of Next year. With that, I've been making my "retirement plans" known.

Thing is, YouTube isn't what I want to be doing anymore all the damn time. It's a lot of work, even with my lazy-ass approach that makes the AVGN look like a workaholic. And I feel like if I keep uploading on a schedule, it's just going to drive me crazy. Like I said. When I started, I was 23, single, my career really hadn't started yet, I had no pets to look after, only one car, a studio apartment, and all the free time in the world, and not a lot of IRL friends to chill with, so few oblications and commitments. Next year, assumign things stay the same, I'll be 43, married for 12 years, have two cats to take care of, two cars to maintain, yet another apartment with lazy maintenance staff who don't do shit that I have to cover for, and have been working at the same place for about 7-8 years at 40+ hours a week including on-call and projects. I also have myself to take care of more since I'm not exactly "Young" anymore either.

So the plan will be to leave up all my videos, and then, if I feel like it, maybe once in awhile, I might post something, possibly of higher quality than I used to, otherwise, I want to continue the lassiase faire, do as you wish feel of the original channel, and want to leave it upas a testament to how much better shit was before Web 2.0, before Google bought out YouTube, and before the internet turned into a bunch of narcisscistic wannabe internet celebrities instead of a bunch of fun hobbyists and intellectuals enjoying the things we enjoy socially to some extent. These changes will include a new highlight trailer, and so on. I'm also changing the name of my musical project around that time as well. The last "Album" of material, will probably come out sometime that year as well. I also want to lay the "CreepingNet moniker to rest finally, since I don't feel it fits things anymore.