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Peter Oakley (20 August 1927 – 23 March 2014) was a pensioner from Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. He was better known by his pseudonym geriatric1927 on the video sharing website YouTube.〔(What to watch on the web: Video Blogs ), BBC News, 27 November 2006 . Retrieved 29 December 2006.〕 Making his YouTube debut in August 2006 with ''Telling it all'', a series of five- to ten-minute autobiographical videos, Oakley gained immediate popularity with a wide section of the YouTube community. Amongst the autobiographical details revealed in his videos are that he served as a radar mechanic during World War II, that he had a lifelong love of motorcycles, and that he lived alone as a widower and pensioner. His unforeseen rise has been widely reported by international media outlets and online news sources and blogs.〔(Pensioner tops web video clips ) Alex Kumi, ''The Guardian'', 14 August 2006〕 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 Two on 16 February 2007. By mid-2006, Oakley was the most subscribed user on YouTube. His rise to the #1 position took place in just over a week. In the process, he displaced users who had been around since the site's launch over a year before, including NBC-signed Brooke Brodack. In November that year he had 30,000 subscribers. By June 2012, Oakley had recorded over 350 videos. Oakley was later diagnosed with cancer which was too far advanced for treatment. He posted his final video on 12 February 2014, and died on the morning of 23 March 2014. ==''Telling It All''== After Oakley's introductory video, , which has been viewed over 2 million times, he began producing his very successful autobiographical series, ''Telling It All''. These pushed him into Internet celebrity almost overnight, gaining mention in various media, such as BBC News and GMTV, as well as prompting the creation of websites bearing his user name. In , Oakley repudiated those sites, saying he was in no way affiliated with them and had no say or control over their content. 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 Norwich〔 posting 29 November 2013〕 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, which occurred as a consequence of the aptitudes his superiors detected in him. This role kept him out of combat, for which he is grateful because he did not have to witness "the horrors of war", but 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. In early 2010, entertainer Al Chantrey - a friend of Oakley's and a fellow YouTube user - wrote and recorded a song for him which Oakley featured in several videos. The song, entitled 'Telling It All' (based on Oakley's video series) talks about Oakley's life. On 5 March 2014 Chantrey posted the song on his own channel on YouTube, accompanied by video footage of Peter as a tribute following the announcement of his illness.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A tribute to Peter (Geriatric1927) - Telling It All )〕 The videos all begin with what has become his catchphrase, "Hello, YouTubers", or "Good evening, YouTubers", and end with his thanking viewers for watching, and saying "Good-bye" in his soft voice. Oakley was featured in a recent installment Yahoo! Current Buzz (which chronicles the top searches on the Internet), entitled "Retired and Wired". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Oakley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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