Peter Oakley (born August 1927) is a pensioner from England. He is better known by his pseudonym geriatric1927 on the popular video sharing website YouTube.^[1] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... An example of rack mounted servers. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog,[1][2][3] is a blog that comprises video. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... As far as we can tell from the hugely informative Little Britain pensioners are disgusting people who piss all over the floor. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ...

Making his YouTube debut in August, 2006 with a series of five-to-ten minute autobiographical videos entitled Telling it all, his posts gained immediate popularity with a wide section of the YouTube community, a leading member of the much-heralded Web 2.0 generation of web sites.^[2] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Web 2. ...

Amongst the autobiographical details revealed in his videos are the fact that he served as a radar mechanic during World War II, has had a lifelong love of motorcycles, and that he currently lives alone as a widower and pensioner in England. This long range radar antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... MotorCycle is the title of a 1993 album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total...

His unforeseen and meteoric rise has been widely reported by international media outlets and online news sources and blogs, gaining YouTube much publicity along the way.^[3] After resisting all media attention for a long time (including requests for interviews, photographs, and attempts to identify him), insisting that he only wished to converse with the YouTube community in an informal and personal way, Oakley finally gave his first interview for the BBC's The Money Programme which was aired on BBC 2 on 16 February 2007. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... This MONEY PROGRAMME is a scam trying to encourage young scots to pay as little as 300 pounds a fortnight and, they say it is for your pention but it is not. ... BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and...

By mid-2006, geriatric1927 was the most subscribed user on YouTube. His rise to the #1 position took place in just over a week. It is noteworthy that in the process he displaced users who had been around since the site's launch over a year prior, including NBC-signed Brooke Brodack. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Brooke Brodack Brooke Allison Brookers Brodack (born April 7, 1986, in Putnam, Connecticut) is a viral video maker, believed to be the first performer to have been discovered on the YouTube website and offered a contract from the mainstream media. ...

Oakley had 30,000 subscribers as of November 25, 2006, and over 40,000 subscribers as of April 6, 2007. He is currently ninth overall on the 'Most Subscribed List' and he is the eighth most subscribed director. is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Telling it all

After Oakley's introductory video first try (which has been viewed 2,659,094 times as of July, 25 2007), he began producing his very successful autobiographical series, Telling it all. These pushed him into Internet celebrity almost overnight, gaining mention in various newsmedia, such as BBC News^[4] and GMTV,^[5] as well as prompting the creation of web sites bearing his user name. In Telling it all 7 Oakley repudiated those sites, saying he was in no way affliated with them and had no say or control over the content. An Internet celebrity is a person, who has achieved fame on the Internet. ... BBC News is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporations news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ... GMTV (Good Morning Television) is a national British breakfast television station owned by ITV plc (75%) and The Walt Disney Company (25%). It has held the license for the breakfast Channel 3 franchise since 1993, when it outbid the previous 6am-9. ...

In the series, Oakley describes some of the major events and periods of his life, including:

• Growing up during World War II, and living as a young teen in a city that was bombed by the Luftwaffe.
• His experience in the primary and secondary education system of England in the 1930s, and his fortunate (in his eyes) selection to have his education 'extended' past the age of 14, a privilege during the period reserved for children deemed to be intelligent.
• His conscription into the British Army, and again his fortunate selection to be a Radar technician, occurred as a consequence of the aptitudes his superiors detected in him. This role kept him out of combat, for which he is grateful, as he did not have to witness "the horrors of war", yet was nonetheless imperative for the war effort.
• His return to civilian life and the job he had left behind.
• A period of tertiary education in Leicester, England, where he met his future wife, and developed his passion for motorcycling.
• His employment in Leicester as a public health inspector.

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Response from the public

Oakley's videos have received mostly positive public response, with such replies as "I wish you were my grandfather" and "Your stories are interesting and enriching. Keep at it!". Negative and rude responses have generally been frowned upon by the YouTube community. Oakley has been called "the coolest old dude alive" due to the fact that he is very computer literate for someone his age, and because of his use of personal Internet videocasting, which is fairly new and popular among the young. He is also praised on his warm, "grandpa-like" style of storytelling which many viewers consider refreshing. YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... A community is a social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. ...

The videos all begin with what has become his catchphrase, "Hello YouTubers..." or "Good Evening YouTubers..." and ends each video by thanking the viewer for watching and saying "goodbye" in his soft spoken voice.

Oakley was featured in a recent Yahoo! Current Buzz (which chronicles the top searches on the Internet) installment titled "Retired and Wired."[1]

Involving the media worldwide

On August 17, 2006, Oakley uploaded the next installment of his series, entitled Telling it all 7, in which he made an important statement about how much attention he received from the media over the past couple of days. Unlike previous videos in the series, Telling it all 7 was not an anecdote of his life, but focused solely on the media response he had gained. He mentioned that this is not what he sought or wanted. This video was leaked out to the media because somebody reportedly intended to publish these videos - without permission from Oakley - for their own benefit. Also included in this upload was a clarification that any web sites using his username (geriatric1927) are in no way affiliated with him.^[6] is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

During the Telling it all 7 video, he stated that he received many messages from advertising companies, telephone companies and newspaper companies that wanted to interview him. Oakley, however, was not interested, preferring to speak only to his fellow YouTubers, whom he considers to be his friends.

A reluctant farewell

On August 22, 2006, Oakley uploaded a video entitled Telling it all part 11 which began with the words "A reluctant farewell" on the screen. Unlike the previous 10 videos, Oakley did not appear in this 11th installment, instead showing a still shot of the now-empty black office chair from which he created his videos each day. In this audio-only creation, Oakley explained that he would be "quite busy in the near future," and would not be creating any more videos for upload to YouTube. Although specific reasons were not stated for his sudden departure, Oakley did mention an incident earlier in his life in which he suffered a heart attack. In Oakley's words, "...loads of old people have had heart attacks, and uh, we survive...we take our pills, and it's not the end of the world," but continuing that he became fatigued easily and felt it was time to take a break. In his final sign off, Oakley assured his loyal viewers that he would still be around, watching their videos, reading their thousands of comments and messages, and watching their video responses to his. The video ends with his signature "Goodbye," and "The Great Pretender" playing in the background as the following message crosses the screen: "PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT ANY WEBSITES THAT EXIST OR ANY THAT MAY BE POSTED ARE NOT MINE AND DO NOT HAVE MY APPROVAL." Although it was a reluctant farewell, Oakley returned again when he posted Telling it all part 12 in which he gave a quick hello to all his fans around Youtube and told them that he was still with them and reading all of their mostly positive comments. Oakley did say that he will make videos in the future according to the suggestions his fans gave him. is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Returning to YouTube

Oakley returned on August 30, 2006 with Telling it all part 13. is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In part 13, Oakley mentions his experience of World War II and says that a chill still runs down his spine whenever he hears the siren which was prevalent in those times to signal an air raid. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

In Telling it all 14 (part 1) part 2, he mentions about the attention the media is giving him and said again that he does not want all the publicity and would simply like to make videos to his beloved fans or "YouTubers". He said that he will continue with making more videos.

In Telling it all 15 and 16, he talks more about his life and in 16, particularly, says thanks all of his fans and all of their support.

As of July 25, 2007, Oakley has 85 videos on YouTube under the pseudonym geriatric1927.

Influence on others

The success of Oakley on YouTube inspired other older people, particularly men with vast life experiences to share, to begin posting vlogs on it. A notable user influenced by Oakley was a World War II veteran, Martin Harris (born 1920), who under the name MHarris1920 started to post his own blogs. Martin however passed away in October 2006, and received an outpouring of tributes from other Youtube users. His widow has since taken over his blogs. YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

List of videos by geriatric1927

Media

On the 16th of February 2007 geriatric1927 made his first television appearance on a special episode of The Money Programme called Coming To Your Screen: DIY TV. It was produced by the BBC, who coincidently became incorporated in the same year as Oakley's birth, 1927. The program was filmed back in the Autumn of 2006. This MONEY PROGRAMME is a scam trying to encourage young scots to pay as little as 300 pounds a fortnight and, they say it is for your pention but it is not. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He has also featured in a radio interview for BBC world service, listen here. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...

On March 14th 2007, Oakley announced that he was working on some television programmes about silver surfing [2].

Oakley also was part of a BBC documentary where he was recruited as one of The Zimmers a group of pensioners who the documentary maker Tim Samuels brought together to sing The Who's classic My Generation to highlight the plight of OAP's in modern Britain. The single was released in May 2007 to raise money for the charity Age Concern. Cover from The Zimmers single My Generation The Zimmers are a British band, and thought to have the oldest members in the world:[1] the lead singer, Alf, is 90, and the oldest member, Buster, is 100. ... Tim Samuels (born 3 October 1975) is an award-winning British documentary-maker and presenter. ... The Who are an English rock band that first formed in 1964 and grew to be considered one of the greatest[1] and most influential[2] bands in the world. ... This article is about the song. ... Age Concern is the name of a number of charitable organizations specifically concerned with the needs and concerns of old people. ...

It has been recently released on the Zimmers MySpace page that Peter will be recording a version of the Alan Parson's Project's song "Old and Wise", further information to be provided as the date of recording draws near. 68.81.29.236 10:16, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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• http://www.myspace.com/thezimmersband Official MySpace Page

See also

• Fame beyond YouTube

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Notes and References

External links

• All videos by geriatric1927 can be found here.
• The official site of Peter Oakley (geriatric1927)
• Reuters UK
• Washington Post
• CNET News
• The Daily Mail