the channel "techmoan" was started on may 31, 2009. the first video uploaded on techmoan was a tour of a 2009 piaggio mp3, which was filmed at 480p and had a very basic sound quality. in 2015, he started another channel, called "youtube pedant", to host videos not about technology. in 2016, in a video covering the dvhs format, he uncovered 1080p video footage of new york city from 1993. this footage was uploaded separately to his "youtube pedant" channel where, as of december 2019, it has gotten 3.8 million views, and it has also been widely shared on websites such as reddit and the verge. as of june 2019, the main channel has over 870,000 subscribers and over 180 million views. some videos on the main channel have had over 3 million views.