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in 2006, Goel received an email from an old student who had noticed him on YouTube. He did not take much notice of it, but many such messages followed and he became known even on campus as "the YouTube guy". As of end-December 2007, the video had had 440,000 views on YouTube. Although Goel was
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Goel had collated the humorous quotes into a series of slides. During one of his lectures, he showed these slides to his students and later uploaded the video of the lecture to NTU's e-learning website, from where it found its way to YouTube.
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