DU has been my 'go to site' for 20 years

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Well done guys.........

[blm]

1. ✔️

[Demovictory9]

13. 👍

[OAITW r.2.0]

28. Hiho!

[Hoyt]

2. Came here during a deep funk after 2004 election. Saved whatever sanity I had left.

[redstateblues]

4. Same here

[Mickju]

20. Me too

My low post total is because I was working two jobs for 20 years. Now I'm old and half senile.

[cilla4progress]

19. Me,

as well! 👍

[byronius]

21. Yup.

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. Cheap group therapy.

A side benefit.

[Bettie]

49. Me too!

The time when it was down after that orange pustule was installed....OMG, it was awful.

Glad to be here, even when I argue with people!

[BCLiberal]

54. Same here

I'd quit American politics after the 2004 election, so depressing. Within two days.... election tampering???
Searching led me here and it's been my daily go-to ever since. Great people here.

[EarlG]

3. One of the things I appreciate most about DU

Is that whenever we have technical fuck-ups everybody is always super-nice about it

Sorry things are a bit screwy tonight, hopefully we’ll have it fixed tomorrow.

Thanks for being here

[applegrove]

9. Oh it runs seemlessly 99.9% of the time.

[SidDithers]

10. It's been the best messageboard on the interwebs for a long time...

Sid

[OAITW r.2.0]

25. Hats off to you guys.

I've witnessed the EVO of DU.

[Blue Owl]

5. I don't know... that new social media forum by Mike Lindell looks pretty cool...

[live love laugh]

16. I was just about to scream into my pillow

[Blue Owl]

27. Bwah!

[Chautauquas]

6. DU has been my go-to site since around 1950

ok, maybe not quite that long.

[OAITW r.2.0]

35. DUAI nailed you immediately! DU did not exist before 2001!

[Bettie]

50. Yeah, those last four years did feel

really, really long, didn't they!

[left-of-center2012]

7. You joined in 2017?

Did you quit and come back or were you just reading?

[Celerity]

11. I think this was their original account.. Old and In the Way

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=109102

[Claire Oh Nette]

12. World class lurker

Lurking and browsing since '02/03.
Had enough of the former guy to go public.

Taking great joy in Karma's 2021 US Tour!

Greatest news aggregate/Social Media/Kindred Spirit site eva'

[OAITW r.2.0]

17. Nope, I was Old and In the Way on my original sign on. 2001? 2002?

Don't matter. The smartest folks I know hang out here.

[panader0]

44. Was your avatar Pigpen from the Dead?

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55. Indeed it was....when I re-signed on, the avatar wasn't available....

[Aristus]

8. Mine, too!

Twenty years in September...

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. Almost that long for me.

Discovered it sometime in 2001 or early 2002 and just lurked and read posts. Finally joined in 2003. I get more info from DU than all the other political sites I've visited combined.

[OAITW r.2.0]

36. Thing is, we encourage divergent thinking.

Never have been interested in a "justlikeme" worldview.

[live love laugh]

15. Me three! (Name changed last opportunity doesn't reflect all my time here.) Thank you DU! nt

Well almost anyway...I started during the Bush debacle around ’02.

[hibbing]

18. 17 years of refuge for me n/t

[Hekate]

23. Yep

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. Has it really been that long?

I've been here in two or three different incarnations, and this is the very best.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

29. Same ...

Though I wasn't around that much for the Obama years cause things were so ... calm.

My first acct was 2002.

[LittleGirl]

26. I want to thank Bill O'Reilly

for leading me here. He mentioned it on his show way back when and I thought, hmmm, I should google that.
Been here ever since and stopped watching O'reilly soon after.

(Disclaimer: I didn't realize I was a liberal until I agreed with most everything on this site. Thanks for showing me the way).

[judesedit]

30. Me, too. Although, I guess I didn't set up an account at that time

I was just on here a hundred times a day and night lol. Kudos to all involved in keeping the site up and running, except for that one unfortunate time it was hacked during the election. We're lucky. From my recollection, that was the only time, aside from maintenance. My current sanity is due to skinner, earl g and company over the years. Thank you so, so much.

[bamagal62]

31. 17 years for me.

[Tracyjo]

32. Isn't it great?

I've been here a while. Not as long as you, but close. My favorite place on the internet. I don't do well without it. I love this place.

[OAITW r.2.0]

37. Thanks for posting!

This place makes you think. And comment!

https://music.

&list=RDAMVM75rZm9FPrL8

[Tracyjo]

39. OMG that is so funny

My mom used to tell me that when I got in trouble! Love it!

[Greybnk48]

33. This is my 17th year here too.

I check in every morning to see what's up. I would be lost without DU.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

34. I am older than I appear

My old name was underground panther and all I know is I've been around a long ass time. Lost my old account when DU got hacked. I went to the big in person du meet up in DC, it was so cool to meet people I posted with in person.

[OAITW r.2.0]

38. Nice story! Love the connections!

Age is strictly a mental construct...within reality constructs.

https://music.

&list=RDAMVM75rZm9FPrL8

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

40. Member since: Sat Feb 22, 2003, 03:00 AM

And what a wonderful trip it has been.

[GPV]

41. Same

[Lochloosa]

42. 18 for me. I would be lost without it

[Elessar Zappa]

43. I started reading in 2002

and in March 2003, I signed up in my first incarnation. DU has always been fun and informative. If I’m not mistaken, there used to be a lot more flame wars here. So that aspect has gotten much better.

[panader0]

45. I can't remember how I found this place--signed on 9-11-2005.

I have learned so much here, not just about politics, but about myself as well.

[Tom Rinaldo]

46. 18 and counting. So much has changed on the internet over that span...

It seemed like at least half of the people on it did so through AOL accounts back then, and Amazon was mostly thought of as a river. So much else has come and gone, but DU remains the top news source on the internet in my opinion. We have thousands of members searching every corner of the web for important and/or useful information to share. We get fresh perspectives from really thoughtful people, often we do effective political organizing. We get breaking first hand news accounts. And then, on top of all that, we get an amazing and enduring community. I am so grateful to everyone who makes DU work, starting with, but not limited to, the core of Administrators who started DU and have kept it alive and vibrant.

[ProfessorGAC]

47. Closing In On 20 Years, Too!

This summer some time, I hit 20 years.
Still here every day.

[AwakeAtLast]

48. May 2004 for me

Then I was WakeMeUp.

Still just as good today as it was then, maybe even better. The flame wars were epic though!

[kentuck]

51. Officially, 20 years ago this month for me, also.

There are a few survivors left.

[PatSeg]

52. Same here

I discovered Democratic Underground in 2002, though didn't become a member until 2004. It is one of the first sites a visit every morning.

[Talitha]

53. Barely 3 years for me, but I gotta tell ya - DU saved my sanity.

Found you guys through an online search. The first time I saw the words "Fuck Trump" I knew I was home.