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what's up everyone John retina from TechnoBuffalo here yesterday we hit a huge milestone we uploaded our mm of video on the John four Lakers YouTube channel first video went up in June of 2007 it's been almost five and a half years and my life and my world has been forever rocked for the better because of YouTube I think going back to first video that I ever did the unboxing of the MacBook Pro I was so nervous I watched every video that was out there on technology so I knew how to present stuff if you look in the video in the background you'll see an Xbox and a Wii that we had just come out I positioned everything just right so it was visible try and give myself a little bit of tech cred even though I knew nothing I was so nervous in the follow-up videos talking about the he was the Mighty Mouse at the time my wife still makes fun of me for that I remember looking at the camera looking around like hey guys I just got back from dinner here's the mouse hey guys just got back from dinner it's John here and I saw that I had a request from one of my subscribers just seeing how I've changed over the past five years in front of the camera as a person the confidence that you guys have given me I say this all the time in giveaway videos and in general you guys changed my life you guys given the opportunity to live my dream those that don't know my story back in 2007 I was running a marketing department for a software development company it was a fine job but I absolutely hated going in everyday it was miserable experience the the people what I was doing was monotonous got to the point where I hope did I get in a minor car accident each day so I wouldn't have to go in not where to hurt anybody but it's maybe like you to stop sign and I have excuse to not go in I started making YouTube videos for fun I was looking to get a new computer I had a giant HP at the time it was broken and I wanted to get a math but I didn't know anything about the operating system when I started searching online for how to use Mac OS there really weren't any videos out there really at the time in 2007 YouTube was mostly guys getting kicked in the nuts and cat videos so in a lot of ways things haven't changed all that much so it was an excuse for me to get a new laptop research to get a camera and start filming if we're gonna document my experiences from switching to math actually how this whole thing got started and I fell in love with it my first videos were films with an old tape camera then I moved to use the webcam on the old MacBook Pro there was a Santa Rosa MacBook Pro I was so proud that I had that I had saved up for months and months and months to finally afford it I was so excited and then when the YouTube Partner Program came around I wrote a 2-page the letter to the head of the partner program saying why I should be submit and I couldn't believe that I got accepted I'm actually gonna make money from doing these videos it was a dream come true I got to talk about technology my passion I used to and still do I just walk around Best Buy just to relax there I had a stressful day at work and that's still what I do I love technology and then one day I was almost had income parity with what I was doing a job I hated with making videos that I loved and it was a very easy decision to leave my job and focus on making videos and eventually start TechnoBuffalo I'll never forget sitting I was at a Thai restaurant with my girlfriend at the time who was is now my wife and telling her you know we're starting to talk about marriage that this is 2009 and when the economy was like really at its worst that I was leaving my job in a bad economy to make videos for a living I would have paid money to have seen the look on my mother-in-law face when my wife told her what I was doing but she had faith in me she had confidence and she knew that I had to give it a shot and my life has forever been changed because of it and it's something that I will never take for granted I promise you you guys give me the opportunity the TechnoBuffalo staff the opportunity to live our dreams I wake up every day to smile on my face even on the worst day possible when things are going awful I still get a play with technology I still get to talk about phones tablets laptops it is a dream come true even a bad day at work is a good day anywhere else in life and you guys give us an opportunity and I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart I'm a tech consumer just like you I love technology when I used to work in my old job I would spend probably four or five hours a day just reading tech sites and now I get to read and write and contribute the tech sites for a living and it's it's incredible I never could've been pageants my life going this way back five and a half years ago or longer never in a million years could I imagine I've had the opportunity to do what I do today and it's all because of you guys for watching for your feedback for your constructive criticism and overall just for your incredible awesomeness guys from the bottom of my heart the entire TechnoBuffalo staffs heart thank you thank you for supporting us for 2,000 videos thank you guys for watching for reading and just for for being yourselves here's to another mm here's to a Greek 2013 and beyond we have a lot of awesome stuff coming I just want to take the opportunity to say thank you guys from just really again from the bottom of my heart I'll see you the next video you