In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 2.01 "TRANSCRIPT": ... Alou Macalou was the primary developer of The UBP ... in December 1994 I wrote KB's first business plan ... Alou contacted me that month about commercializing The UBP ... our strategic alliance was formed ... we put business plan together ... Dr. Vince Carter and Dr. Gary May became advisors (Gary May is Chancellor of UC-Davis ... not Cal State ...03m48sec ATDC story ... Dwight Holter ... 4-legged stool (Management, Market, Technology, finance) ... 06m40sec I am "key man" ... 07m58sec we raised $20K ($6K) ... 08m50sec no cash flow => cracks start to show ... 09m30sec this is like a marriage, and we got twisted when things got topsy-turvy 09m51sec Microsoft chooses us for diversity recruiting ... Internet advertising is a "thing" ... 11m50sec we had advertising revenue by mid-1996(?) ... we had momentum, and could have done more ... 12m54sec ... we did not pay ourselves salaries ... I was VPSS, Alou was CEO, Larry was CTO 13m30sec I entered with my exit plan - to launch KnowledgeBase 13m58sec I raised all the investment $$ 14m34sec ... I recouped all the investment $$ ... Netgate was our site host 15m11sec ...