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13. Skinner and EarlG started the site together

On Inauguration Day back in 2001 (George Bush*'s inauguration), they stood outside the Today Show with a large banner that said democraticunderground.com - and that was the launch of DU. And it's obviously grown exponentially ever since. I didn't find DU until about two years later, but I've heard the story.

And posting photos isn't that hard - I learned how to do it right here on DU. I started using Photobucket - since that's what was suggested to me at the time - but you can post any photo if you have the right url. If there's a pic you want to post, right click on it and copy the image address. Then you can paste it. Not every image address works - you want to use one with a .jpg or .png extension. And I always preview any photo I post to make sure it works and that it's not too large. And I am definitely tech challenged myself.

I had a dentist appointment on 9/11 - just a cleaning I think - but it seemed like I sat there for hours, watching the TV the dentist had turned to CNN, seeing that second plane hit, over and over and over. I walked out of there scared witless, thinking the world was about to end. I was with my mother and we stopped to vote on the way home - it was primary day here in New York - but the place (school) was deserted.

I'd always voted, mostly for Democrats, but I realized then that I needed to know a whole lot more about what was really happening in this country - and the world. So I started reading and looking things up - and I eventually found DU, was told about it by a friend who was more politically savvy than I was.

Since then I've learned so much from the smart and well connected folks here. I worked for my congressman on two political campaigns and I'm addicted to news shows that would have previously put me to sleep. And I have learned that my oldest friends - some I've known since I was a kid - are fellow liberals and equally proactive. And if anyone wants to know anything - I have one newer friend who had never voted before the 2016 election - they certainly know that all they have to do is ask...