Posy

Michiel De Boer, better known online as Posy, is a Dutch YouTuber and musician who create videos inspired by and about various topics such as technology and devices, with some having an accompaniment of musical scores composed by himself. Posy is his artist name since 2005, and is not attached or related to the content published in his YouTube channel.
==History==
=== Early Days ===
De Boer was born c. early-mid 1980s. As a child, he was fascinated by sound & played with it. On his 11th birthday, his parents got him a Cosmel Mini System. Posy - "Crap HiFi" Video This system allowed him to record cassette tapes with different dubbing speeds & even in reverse. It was his first experience getting to record & play with sound, which would influence him in his later work.
In 1998, his family got a computer that could be used to make digital music, in which he could digitize his cassette tapes & still does to this day.
De Boer would begin his ventures online ~2013, with the creation of his websiteMichiel's Website, his Bandcamp, and his YouTube channel on March 8th. 3 days later, he would upload his first video, which is a remix track based on the Star Trek series, titled "Some Kind Of", a reference to how the dialogue in Star Trek would often use the phrase "some kind of" when describing whatever characters see in the show.
On September 15, he would release his first song on streaming/Bandcamp, "Office Space" featuring BoB.
=== Popularity ===
His most popular video about the history and development of and his take on segmented displays (titled "Segmented Displays") has garnered more than 3 million views since its publication on April 30, 2022. His previous popular video on the platform is about the history of mouse cursors and the reason he created a custom set of cursors (titled "Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)"), that has accumulated more than 1 million views since it was posted on November 6, 2018.
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Tech YouTubers
Category:Dutch YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013