Invidious

Just a few weeks ago, I reached another milestone –- crossing 200,000 subscribers on YouTube. This feels surreal, exhilarating, and humbling.

To every single one of you, I want to say... Thank you.

Thank you for watching my videos.

Thank you for liking/subscribing.

Thank you for sharing my content with your peers.

Thank you for all the positive comments you have left.

The comments are a stream of positivity and encouragement (and the occasional inside joke 😁).

Through approximately 150k~ subscribers, I read & replied to every single comment; after that it became too difficult to keep up. But still today I _read every single comment_ and reply when I can. Your comments energize and inspire me to continue building Practical Networking.

That said, I still vividly remember the challenging, early years on Youtube -- back before I had any meaningful number of subscribers. Putting so much effort into creating videos, and receiving so few (if any!) comments. It was a soul-sucking, disheartening grind that I am so grateful to be past... so again, THANK YOU.

Therefore, in recognition of that grind, just like when I passed 100k, I want to take this moment of passing 200k to shine some light on other creators that are making great educational content.

I recently polled all of you for recommendations, the only rule was they had to have less than 200k subs on Youtube. Below is a list of creators that are making or sharing high quality educational content for you.

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👉 Art of Network Engineering
youtube.com/c/TheArtofNetworkEngineering
artofnetworkengineering.com/
twitter.com/artofneteng

👉 Packet Pushers
www.youtube.com/channel/UC7vA...
twitter.com/packetpushers
packetpushers.net/

👉 John Breth (JB) - CyberInsight
youtube.com/c/cyberinsight
twitter.com/JBizzle703

👉 Keith Barker
youtube.com/@KeithBarker
twitter.com/KeithBarkerCCIE

👉 Nick Russo
youtube.com/c/nicholasrusso
twitter.com/nickrusso42518

👉 Deirra Footman
youtube.com/@CCIEBY30/
twitter.com/ccieby30

👉 Tracket Pacer
youtube.com/tracketpacer
twitter.com/TracketPacer

👉 Chris Greer - PacketPioneer
youtube.com/@ChrisGreer
twitter.com/packetpioneer

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Each of these creators have created or shared content that I have personally benefited from. If you're looking to round out your network of quality people to follow/subscribe to, these should all be on your list.

On to 2024, and the road to 300k subscribers. Thank you all again for joining me on this journey.

<3

1 year ago | [YT] | 280

@abcdef15142

Congratulations Ed 🎉 you deserve much more subscribers. I have benefited from your free tls lesson and then I enrolled to it. Thank you so much ☺️ Keep up the good work 🙏

1 year ago | 0

@almarkduma-op4802

As a super mega ultra beginner kid in networking, you are literally my savior! I can't imagine learning this lot in a short span of week on a topic I'm completely unfamiliar with! Can't express how thankful I am to you that I discovered your channel! From the bottom of my heart... THANK YOUUU!!! You deserve a lot more subscribers!!!

1 year ago (edited) | 0

@a1s2_ca

By far the best Networking channel on YouTube and to be honest you do a better job teaching than any instructor I've seen on INE or any other place like that. Great job, thank you!

1 year ago | 1