Would you like to share a DU memory?
I guess I am feeling nostalgic as a long time DUer about the "good old days", although I know we faced very serious challenges from the day the forum started.
I started thinking about when I first started posting here. Everything was new (even the internet) and it felt so empowering to communicate with other progressives.
Here's my memory: California Peggy once posted that she replied to everyone who responded to one of her OPs. And she really did. For a while, I felt that that was the coolest thing, and I tried to do so as well. Of course I didn't follow through for too long. 
There's only one CP.
So many funny and significant things have happened here over the years. What do you remember?
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Thanks to yardwork for the heads-up. It took a village to raise a mixed animal. 
every single time, it makes my day.
Thank you for hours of enjoyment! 
...most of it was stolen from sites that are/were popular with alt-right chuds and gamers (but now I'm being redundant!). There were idealized images of far-right European leaders, obsessions with "white genocide" and non-existent racial "no-go zones", etc. My favorite image was Trump holding the severed head of Osama Bin Laden. Hmm...who actually was President when Bin Laden was taken out?!
Whoever made the video (out of mostly stolen material) was probably a regular at 4chan/8chan/8kun/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-now. 
And Will Pitt
Anyone remember the epic Olive Garden thread? 😬
Hard to think of many people who brought more joy and laughter to this community.
MFM - - - - - pinboy3niner
and the door buzzard thread.
I miss a lot, but her name popped into my mine just the other days; I enjoyed reading them immensely.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/plaidder/
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Oh, I really miss Bob (so stop saying that!) Boudelang, too
https://www.democraticunderground.com/bob/
I posted back and forth with him a few times. He died sometime back. 
R-I-P
And, as others have mentioned, Equal Time with Bob Boudalang. And Grovel Bot. Good times.
The two forums at the time, GD and GDP, were changed for those who wanted to vent their feelings, one for those who were angry and wanted to sound off and the other for those who were miserable and needed sympathy. I posted in the latter. 
I remember watching the returns that night, Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer, and they kept saying that Al Gore won Florida, then he didn't - it was an anxious night. 
I felt sick about it for a week, kept going back and forth with my friend about it since she felt the same way - and she eventually joined DU as well - which was a good thing.
My introduction post got a reply from Skinner!!!!!!
Didn’t have a clue at the time.
Some of the other DUers clued me in.
Including (our Dear) CP!
Great post! 
Met with many DUers there, including Skinner himself!
RIP Kephra
Also known as Kendra. I will miss that woman forever.
Damned cancer.
Usually, "bullshit, there's no way you know those people (I did)," and "what makes you so special (nothing) that Howard Dean would tell you that? (He and I talked regularly)" and "why would someone like that tell something like that to someone like you (maybe because he didn't have your phone number?) "
On the morning of the day Obama was to announce his pick for VP, I was in Cape Cod, Mass. The announcement was scheduled for around 4 PM that afternoon. My nephew called me up from northern Virginia at about 7:30 in the morning and told me it was Joe Biden. I asked if he was sure. When he told how he knew, I realized he was 100% sure, but I also knew it would be a few years before I could reveal WHY he was so sure.
Not sure how to post the news, I crafted a carefully worded OP, saying I had it on pretty good authority that it would be Joe Biden, and had anyone else heard the same thing?
You'd thought I had cursed the name of Mao at a Chinese prison that carried out executions.
I got an onslaught of angry posts telling me why it would never be Biden, why it would be anyone BUT Biden, and who was I of all people to know such a thing, and, of course, the inevitable LINK?!?!?!?!?!?
When Obama's pick of Joe Biden was announced later that afternoon, exactly ONE poster came back to apologize, understanding that I still couldn't explain HOW I knew, but at least acknowledging that I really did know.
Years later, I figured there would be no more fallout for the "guilty" parties, and I revealed how I had known, but almost no one was left at DU who had trashed me at the time.
For the curious, here's how I knew. (If you don't care, feel free to stop reading here 
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My nephew was 18 at the time, but was somewhat small for his age. he had a young face, and had a young and wiry physique. In addition, he is somewhat reserved, and has strong Asian features. My brother's wife is from Japan. He used to go to a local indoor swimming pool in northern Virginia very early in the morning, before he went to his summer job, interning with Matt Angle at the Lone Start project in Washington. At 6:30 AM, the only other people at the pool were two female office staff of then-Senator Joe Biden's office. They looked around before talking, but saw only some 12 year old (they thought) Asian kid, who never said a word, and probably didn't understand English in the first place. The kid, was my 18 year old nephew, who understood every word, of course. They felt free to excitedly discuss, out loud, the fact (still secret) that their boss had been picked by Obama to be his Vice-President. After all, it was still a secret if the only other person who heard the news was some young Asian kid who didn't understand English, right? He never said a word, and let them leave, still thinking their secret was safe.
So, right after he got home, my nephew called me up and gave me the news. For all my good intentions, I have been rarely so trashed for a thread on DU, and if there's anyone left here from those days who was one of those who gave me grief, no, I STILL don't have a link!!
some were high post count, years long members. some still plague MIRT to this day. probably my all time favorite was the loony darkangel. got a lot of hides due to her. 
…of the White House Press Room.
When she got the buckets of roses she sat among them for a photo looking rather stunned at our accolades — and gave most away to hospitals (of course)
What a great lady. 
What a great community at times as well.
And I am sure I am not the only one who thinks you live up to it.
Someone started a post saying I am not afraid and posted their real name, a bunch of us including me did the same, for years if I googled my name DU came up, because my first name was my name here, when they offered to change names I did as the internet became less safe.
That thread has always above all others meant the most to me because we were all so honest and raw in our grief.