digital autobiography draft #1

Luis Puquirre

English 100    

M/W

YouTube

The first time that I used YouTube was when I was 11 years old, I was in six grade. And the first assignment that I had to do in my history class, American history to be more exact, was the dead of Martin Luther king Jr, the instruction of the assignment were clear you can use the book for information or used YouTube to learn more of his assassination, the teacher posted a link that would give me information of the topic. This was the first time that I was going to use my computer for education and not for games. I tried to use the book for information but the information was the same that everybody knew of already and I want my project to unique. I got in my desktop computer and type U Tube, I thought it was spelled like that and either way if you google something, even if it is wrong, at the end it gives you the same answer.

The Martin Luther King Jr assignment I did I ace it with the information I found in YouTube not only information, but I found an old news broadcast were the news guy announce his dead I also learned how the black community felt and what happen next without King .I found videos that had happen years ago in one website I figured it out that in some point YouTube would take over history books, that YouTube can show you what had happen in history in ten or twenty minutes.

Discovering a website that can give you from historical videos to my favorite music videos was amazing! Even though YouTube started in 2005 at the time that I first used it was an amazing experience that I’m not going to forget for the rest of my life. A place where I can listen to music while doing my homework I used to open two tabs in my computer one for home work and the other one for YouTube. Every time that I was using the computer I did the same my parent’s believed that I was focusing in my homework but in reality I was listen and watching videos in YouTube every time they were not looking at my computer screen, I switch screens back in fort from my homework to YouTube. Until I got my first smart phone.