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

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Original post)

Thu Mar 11, 2021, 01:28 AM

Mar 2021

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

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DU has been my 'go to site' for 20 years [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 OP

✔️ blm Mar 2021 #1

👍 Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #13

Hiho! OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #28

Came here during a deep funk after 2004 election. Saved whatever sanity I had left. Hoyt Mar 2021 #2

Same here redstateblues Mar 2021 #4

Me too Mickju Mar 2021 #20

Me, cilla4progress Mar 2021 #19

Yup. byronius Mar 2021 #21

Cheap group therapy. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #22

Me too! Bettie Mar 2021 #49

Same here BCLiberal Mar 2021 #54

One of the things I appreciate most about DU EarlG Mar 2021 #3

Oh it runs seemlessly 99.9% of the time. applegrove Mar 2021 #9

It's been the best messageboard on the interwebs for a long time... SidDithers Mar 2021 #10

Hats off to you guys. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #25

I don't know... that new social media forum by Mike Lindell looks pretty cool... Blue Owl Mar 2021 #5

I was just about to scream into my pillow live love laugh Mar 2021 #16

Bwah! Blue Owl Mar 2021 #27

DU has been my go-to site since around 1950 Chautauquas Mar 2021 #6

DUAI nailed you immediately! DU did not exist before 2001! OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #35

Yeah, those last four years did feel Bettie Mar 2021 #50

You joined in 2017? left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 #7

I think this was their original account.. Old and In the Way Celerity Mar 2021 #11

World class lurker Claire Oh Nette Mar 2021 #12

Nope, I was Old and In the Way on my original sign on. 2001? 2002? OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #17

Was your avatar Pigpen from the Dead? panader0 Mar 2021 #44

Indeed it was....when I re-signed on, the avatar wasn't available.... OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #55

Mine, too! Aristus Mar 2021 #8

Almost that long for me. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2021 #14

Thing is, we encourage divergent thinking. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #36

Me three! (Name changed last opportunity doesn't reflect all my time here.) Thank you DU! nt live love laugh Mar 2021 #15

17 years of refuge for me n/t hibbing Mar 2021 #18

Yep Hekate Mar 2021 #23

Has it really been that long? PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #24

Same ... Hugh_Lebowski Mar 2021 #29

I want to thank Bill O'Reilly LittleGirl Mar 2021 #26

Me, too. Although, I guess I didn't set up an account at that time judesedit Mar 2021 #30

17 years for me. bamagal62 Mar 2021 #31

Isn't it great? Tracyjo Mar 2021 #32

Thanks for posting! OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #37

OMG that is so funny Tracyjo Mar 2021 #39

This is my 17th year here too. Greybnk48 Mar 2021 #33

I am older than I appear I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2021 #34

Nice story! Love the connections! OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #38

Member since: Sat Feb 22, 2003, 03:00 AM Tom Yossarian Joad Mar 2021 #40

Same GPV Mar 2021 #41

18 for me. I would be lost without it Lochloosa Mar 2021 #42

I started reading in 2002 Elessar Zappa Mar 2021 #43

I can't remember how I found this place--signed on 9-11-2005. panader0 Mar 2021 #45

18 and counting. So much has changed on the internet over that span... Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #46

Closing In On 20 Years, Too! ProfessorGAC Mar 2021 #47

May 2004 for me AwakeAtLast Mar 2021 #48

Officially, 20 years ago this month for me, also. kentuck Mar 2021 #51

Same here PatSeg Mar 2021 #52

Barely 3 years for me, but I gotta tell ya - DU saved my sanity. Talitha Mar 2021 #53