What year did you arrive at DU?

[kentuck]

Poll question: What year did you arrive at DU?

And how did you find out about it?

[Electric Monk]

1. 2 people have voted "my name is Skinner" already, lol

edit: make that 7

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. 2001 and I don't remember how I heard about it.

[DURHAM D]

5. I clicked a link from Buzz Flash. nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. Also from BuzzFlash... n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

111. January 2001-- clicked a link either from Buzzflash

or gwbush.com

[Rockholm]

180. 2003-Came from Buzzflash too!

Although, can't remember how I found Buzzflash.

[Mz Pip]

186. Me too!

Either that or Bush Watch. They had a link to the Top Ten Idiot Conservatives if I remember correctly.

[Bandit]

8. That is how I got here as well and I heard about Buzzflash on Washington Journal

I was here before 9-11 but only by a few months..

[yewberry]

22. Buzzflash also.

Maybe it was the top 10 that bought me here.

[CTyankee]

25. Wow, so did I. Wonder if Buzz Flash knows what they wrought?

[myrna minx]

32. Buzzflash's link to the Top Ten Idiots is what bright me here.

I finally summoned the courage to sign up in early 2002.

[neverforget]

93. I think Buzzflash link to the Top 10 Idiots brought me here. I loved it and signed

up immediately.

[Kurovski]

110. myrna minx is the reason 32% of all DUers signed up.,

Do not call me a liar, i'm warning everyone...

:loveya:

[myrna minx]

167. Hey you.

:loveya: I think I'm more of a decimal point kind of gal - 33.333% and that's only because of the hours I spent outside the Woolworths with my clipboard, telling the good news about DU. I was sweet on the soda jerk, who would always put an extrey shot of cherry in my coke and complimented the ribbons in my hair so he helped the time pass nicely.

[Kurovski]

173. Well if that just don't sound like you...

You can have my can 'o Spam for this here month right now! Always squeezin' a little more juice outta a situation.

A gal can't help but ta watch out for herself these days! What with that bad Mr. Hitler over in europe and what-all else. It gets us to worryin' about how we are ever gonna set it all to rights again, i can tell you that much for sure!

[Lorien]

69. Same here, but I lurked until 2002. nt

[Kurovski]

108. I think I entered the search terms "Bush+asshole"

[Major Hogwash]

120. Well, I was cutting down this tree when it started to rain . . .

It was 2003, I saw a flash video that Symbolman had made and it made me cry.
It was about the soldiers that had been sent to Iraq and how the Bush administration had failed to give them the proper equipment, and were trying to cut the VA budget, and on and on.

And I thought to myself, "how could the American people vote for a retarded, slurring retarded asswipe like Bush over someone like Al Gore?"

Then I saw a link that Symbolman put up to the DU forum, and now I'm addicted.

[Nevernose]

55. Same here, but it might have been a link from Bartcop

Nt

[trotsky]

170. I also got here from Bartcop in 2001.

But didn't register until January 2002.

[Supply Side Jesus]

61. buzzflash

From a link.....always liked buzzflash

[Bonhomme Richard]

68. 2001 and i don't remember either. n/t

[blondeatlast]

3. '03. Just generally pissed off about politics, I googled "democrat" and "underground"

hoping to find a site for Dems that was unofficial so I could bitch about the party and still be a Democrat. Very pleased with the result even now.

Lurked a while, didn't join, then vcame back from the late, lamented MWO.

[Kurovski]

109. Hey!

Thanks for asking me!

(you do KNOW thet you are using a sexist term, do you not!?!

And here's more sexyism: you are a cutie! :)

[blondeatlast]

151. Aw, shucks, t'weren't nothin'!

and I had the same reaction... ;)

[Speck Tater]

4. 2004 - brought here by fellow Deaniacs. nt

[wtbymark]

6. 2001 and my name is not Skinner n/t

[underpants]

16. Me too and me neither

[Orangepeel]

41. me three and me ... threeither?

:-)

[AlienGirl]

168. 2001, link on Bartcop sent me here! So me four, and...fourther?

[EFerrari]

9. 2004 but not for John Kerry. DU was the best place on the net

for the discussion of election problems that year. :)

[Kurovski]

112. I can't imagine that DU was ever without you.

:loveya:

[RockaFowler]

10. 7 people voted they were Skinner

I love this place. I've been here since 2004. Wow I lasted longer here than at my last job :)

[tridim]

13. I'm not, but I joined in 2001 during the SCOTUS sElection.

[ZombieHorde]

100. Skinner has many accounts. All of the biggest DU trolls are Skinner laughing at us.

;)

[Kurovski]

114. !

I think he once excoriated me for my "jihad" against RimJob under the sobriquet of "MarxBrotha'"!!

[cmd]

11. 2001 and the Washington Journal

I lurked for a long time before my first post.

[Mike 03]

12. 2003, I was fortunate enough to locate this place.

But I would have joined sooner, believe me!

[etherealtruth]

14. I lurked for at least a year

I desperately wanted Kerry to beat that moron .... I had been horrified by the wars for some time.

I officially "signed up" in January 2005

I believe I found DU through Truthout .... I had found Truthout while looking for a link to a Seymour Hersch article

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Late 2003/2004 for Dr Dean. Then left and came back a year or so ago.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

17. 2001

I was heavy into the "selection" issue and found my way here via one of the voter rights sites.

[lpbk2713]

18. '03 ... I had all the BushCo shit I could handle.

Juat as if the Y2K Florida selection wasn't enough to piss me off.

[demmiblue]

19. Started lurking in 2004, joined in 2008. n/t

[surrealAmerican]

62. Same here...

... same years even. I lurked for four years because I was afraid joining would cause me to spend far more time here than I should.

[asjr]

Found DU either from Media Horse or

Buzzflash. Can't remember which.

[HereSince1628]

20. I started lurking in 2002, just after I found Symbolman's

TakeBackTheMedia.com videos.

I joined DU in spring of 2003, and I must say, I STILL MISS DU VER. 1.0, Underpant's dancing underpants, and too many of the old gang who have fallen by the way.

I do not miss the heartaches brought about by SHE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED.

[Graybeard]

21. 2006 - because Mike Malloy was fired.

In a very ugly incident Mike Malloy was fired from AirAmerica Radio. Another AAR host, Sam Seder, directed his listeners to the "Bring Back Malloy" petition that was on DU. I had never heard of DU but once I got here (in the raucous atmosphere of the 2006 election) I was hooked.

[LWolf]

23. The close of 2002. I saw the light long before 9/11. nt

[enough]

24. Arrived 2001, but lurked and didn't join till '02. Don't remember the original link. (nt)

[Kolesar]

57. Me too, and it was either Buzzflash, Salon, or MediaWhoresOnline who sent me here

I remember reading A LOT of websites reconstructing the legacy of the BFEE*
*Bush family evil empire

Edit: DU is the first forum I ever joined. That seemed like a big deal to me at the time.

[Broderick]

26. have no idea

is there any way to tell? I post rarely, but read a lot.

[lpbk2713]

27. Mid 2003

Your User ID is not too far away from mine.


(Hover over your Email envelope to get your UID Number)


:hi:

[Broderick]

34. wow

that long? surprises me. Been around more lately...... Thank you by the way. :)

[BlueCollar]

28. 2001 and I'm here because of buzzflash...n/t

[Paper Roses]

29. After hearing Elizabeth Edwards mention DU in one of her speeches

I took a peek and have been here ever since.

[DrDan]

30. 2001 here

[H2O Man]

31. 2003

[WilliamPitt]

33. May 21, 2001

And yeah, I also think it's weird that I remember the exact date.

[Broderick]

47. lol

It must have made an impact with you.

[WilliamPitt]

49. I went back one day and looked it up.

Cuz I'm a big dork.

[Broderick]

50. I am not smart enough

to figure out how to look... I try not to spend too much time on the internet though. Depressing at times to be honest.

[Hissyspit]

163. A Google search brought up Top Ten Conservative Idiots in late 2003. I read the front page

For about a year before finally joining in the discussion boards.

[scarletwoman]

183. I remember when you had your own web page -- you were still a teacher then.

I can't remember whether I found your web page before or after I found DU, but I do remember going there and reading your essays.

As I said elsewhere on this thread, I came to DU by way of Delphi forums. I suspect I found a link to your web page from Delphi as well, I remember it as a separate event from finding DU.

I know that I liked what you wrote way back then. :)

sw

[Recursion]

35. Oddly enough following a "truther" link brought me here originally

I watched the Dungeon in mute, appalled horror for a few months, then managed to notice the rest of the site.

[Itchinjim]

36. Late 2003...

Followed some links from Fark. Lurked for a couple of months and joined up in early 2004. Until I discovered DU, I thought I was the only person in America who despised W. and the GOP. DU was and is an island of sane in a sea of crazy. (Most the time)

[TBF]

37. Early 2008, my how things change in 3 years. nt

[Rex]

38. I was lost after the 2000 selection, had no idea there where people

around that were lost too, I read more then I posted in the beginning. I think I had to re-register in 2002, but 9/11 will be the event that sealed the deal with me and DU. Only place I could find answers was here and still it.

Found out about DU when I hung out on Bartcops mirc channel...way back when he had the blue backdrop.

[Polly Hennessey]

39. DU saved my sanity

I clicked in from Buzzflash. No one will ever know how I felt after Bush was elected. I stumbled in on a link from Buzzflash. I also remember enjoying someone named Gloria (I think) on Buzzflash who would give us a rundown on the Chris Matthews show, which I could not stand to watch. I remember the "I'm Sorry America" input we had from all over the world. Still, every day I check in to DU. I don't do much interaction, as you can probably tell from the number of times I have written. Usually I respond to animal stuff. You guys are way smarter and knowledgeable than I am. Each day I learn something new, so I will be here forever. Oh, and I remember when the "Breaking News" forum started. In the early days it was so good. Because DU saved my sanity I donate every quarter. It's the least I can do.

[swilton]

40. Referral from the Draft Gore website

[Journeyman]

42. Early 2001. Learned about it from BartCop. . .

joined a few months later. . .

[Kaleva]

43. Joined in early 2008 but lurked here quite a bit in 2004.

[rucky]

44. 2003 Iraq - after Colin Powell lied to the UN

and the MSM didn't question it a bit. I went searching for alternative media.

[NoPasaran]

45. 2003, Probably via a link from Buzzflash

The totally unnecessary war with Iraq depressed me and dragged me back into being politically active.

[proud patriot]

46. spring 2001

I googled something like "bush is an ashole" or something along those lines .
clicked a link "hatedcom" which had a list of many websites . Democratic Underground
rung a bell in my head because I had rememberd the sign from inauguration day .
DU was the first place I clicked , stayed ever since .

[dana_b]

48. 2004 although I took a break and came back

with a different name. :) I can't even remember my old name. :crazy:

[tishaLA]

51. 2003. the CA recall effort and mediawhoresonline

brought me here

[shanti]

52. 2002

i posted on another board where a DU'er told me about the top ten conservative idiots. i've been a member ever since!

[malaise]

53. In 2004 I saw a link and lurked for a while

before joining.

[Codeine]

54. Buzzflash back in early 2003.

I just read the front page and the Hate Mailbag for a while before I discovered the forums.

[ceile]

56. I think 2003, but not really sure.

How can I find that out?

[DemReadingDU]

92. click on your profile option

it says you joined in 2003 before July 6th


edit: I joined Dec 13th 2004, but I started lurking after the stolen election in 2004.

[Webster Green]

58. 2001. It may have been the 1st day the site was up.

I saw the DU banner at chimp's inaugural parade and came here right away.

[Ernesto]

59. Early 2001 Just after the chimp selection disaster

Still remember seeing someone holding up a placard that said: "Democratic Underground.Com" when chimp snuck down Pennsylvania Ave and into OUR Whitehouse.

[Blue_In_AK]

60. 2004 after the election

when I was trolling around the internet looking for some explanation. I was sure 2004 was stolen just as surely as 2000, and I was pleased to find other people who shared my view.

[justabob]

63. BuzzFlash

I used to come read the weekly columnists early on in 2001: Plaid Adder, and I can't remember who else now... plus the Top 10 Conservative Idiots. I didn't join for a while though, and I had another account than this one starting out, so I don't remember exactly when I joined except that it was before the 2004 elections.

[PSzymeczek]

88. Auntie Pinko? n/t

[justabob]

101. yes!

That seems like a lifetime ago. :)

[Kurovski]

118. Bob Boudelang!

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

64. After ** got selected I wanted to find Democrats to work with. I thought the left should

band together. However when I first got here I was tarred and feathered by several people and run out on a rail. Took me a long time but I came back and stuck it out and I am still here. (Obviously :))

[Raine]

65. 2001 but I didn't register and post till 2003

I heard about DU after the theft of the 2000 election in another group. I think it might have been Move On but not sure.

[lazarus]

66. summer, 2001

someone kept posting the top ten conservative idiots on Usenet, so I checked it out.

[kentuck]

67. Does anyone remember the contest when...?

...DU registered the first 10,000 members? (Although maybe half of those had been banned?:-) )

[Lydia Leftcoast]

70. I know I had an article published in March 2001

But I don't remember exactly when I came. I think I was member #1600 or something like that.

[kentuck]

76. You are one of the pioneers, Lydia....

Very few left with lower numbers. I also had posted articles in March of 2001 before I registered for discussion groups.

[City Lights]

71. I've been here since 2001.

I lurked for awhile and finally joined after 9-11. I found DU either through MWO, Buzzflash, or Bush Watch...I honestly can't remember which of those steered me here.

[mitchtv]

72. 2001

I forget how I got here

[kentuck]

78. Wow! You must have arrived the first week!

That's a very low ID # in your author profile.

[mitchtv]

116. don't remember

they erased all the dates one time, back then

[onethatcares]

73. buzzflash too

I was searching for progressive political parties. I read the Hate mailbag, bob boudalang and the plain adder and was hooked.

[kgnu_fan]

74. Lurking since spring or summer of 2001, started to post around 2008

Surfing the net, found DU by accident. I have been coming here everyday, at least 10 times per day.... DU has been a great resource for my research, inspiration and it is the best place to find the most recent breaking news.

And, this is a great place for checking on recent right-winger mole talking points without having to go "there"....

[Hissyspit]

162. How in the world did you hold off posting for 7 years?

I lurked for about a year, just reading the front page.

[delightfulstar]

75. Originally, 2004.

I was fed up with Shrub, and wanted a safe haven. I saw the DU light on a random Google search one day, when I was searching for John Kerry campaign information. I have a new and different handle now, but still love this place more than almost anywhere else out there. It's great to be with like-minded, intelligent people who get it. :)

[hlthe2b]

77. Just about the same time in 2001 as you, kentuck

You were number 103,933 and I am 103,944 :toast:


Oh, and I saw Skinner's sign on inauguration day and lurked until I got up the nerve to register--May, I think.

[kentuck]

We may have been only minutes apart...

Both from Colorado. Wow!

[hlthe2b]

83. You know, I know that number in our profile reflects ...

registration order, but in terms of actual numbers... There certainly would not have been 103,000 plus registrations by May, 2001. So are the first two digits just place holders and yours and my number really reflects 3,900 or so? Do you know? By the way, Will Pitt was just a few ahead of us both (102,890) and he says he remembers registering May 21, 2001... So we had to be just a few days or a week or so after that...

;)

[kentuck]

89. I have found articles I wrote for the home page....

on March 31st, 2001. But I did not start posting on the Discussion Board until weeks later. I think it may be your number when you started on discussion group??

[hlthe2b]

90. Oh, that makes more sense... I thought I had registered earlier...

But, no matter..

[kentuck]

91. I'm surprised so many of the old timers are still here...

If this poll is any indication?

[nadinbrzezinski]

155. Gluttons for punishment!

[scarletwoman]

113. Yes, the first two digits are just place holders. You are member # 3944. (nt)

[Kurovski]

123. Do me! Do me!!

What's my #? I can't find it. Y'know, learned helplessness and all that. And what # are you?

Hello, by the way. :D

[kentuck]

126. You arrived...

about the second week of April in '01. Definitely an old timer.

[scarletwoman]

130. I thought you'd NEVER ask!

You're member #4229.

:D

[Kurovski]

137. Thanks baby!

[scarletwoman]

144. Sweet mystery of love, at last I've found you!

Ah, the memories...

We'll always have the DUzys.

:hug:

[hlthe2b]

132. Ahh thanks... I know we talked about this long ago...

But outside of knowing where to look in the profile, I'd forgotten the rest.

[UpInArms]

122. where do you see the registration numbers?

I came here in April of 2001, I think - and there were fewer than 2500 users then - so ... am curious how you can tell.

thanks!

[kentuck]

128. Right by your name on your post is the small envelope...

for your private messages. Just to the right of that is the "author's profile". Click on that and the last four numbers in the http// window will tell you what member number you signed on with.

[Capn Sunshine]

191. Really?

Cool. BTW, 2001, 9/12 I saw Skinners spray painted sheet at the inauguration. Wrote it down and found it after the 9/11 attacks. I had a diferent name at first, changed it during the crossover of 2003.

[hlthe2b]

135. You are 2294

Did you have another screen name?

[UpInArms]

169. no - never had another screen name - always been UpInArms

knew that I had been here forever - maybe even before April - it was a scary place - freeper attacks on every thread ... and being a complete newbie to the internet (only got online in December 2000 - couldn't get the news anywhere about the stolen election)

sigh

it's been a long decade of despair

[kentuck]

79. delete

dupe

[nemo137]

80. 2002. I needed something to do the summer after my freshman year of HS

Yelling about politics on the internet seemed like the thing to do.

[Violet_Crumble]

81. 2002. My friend Iverglas gave me a link to it...

DU was pretty good back in those first few years...

[kentuck]

82. Perhaps the Admins have the actual numbers?

But the poll shows that about 85% of DUers arrived 2004 and before? Are most members still the old timers? I know DU was very selective in its early days. Anybody that hinted at conservatism was tombstoned. :-)

[DemReadingDU]

94. Interesting question

There would probably be even more old timers, but they no longer are here.

[PSzymeczek]

84. I think it was '02.

A co-worker e-mailed me a link to Top 10 Conservative Idiots.

[Throd]

85. I first heard about DU on the Rush Limbaugh show!

Thanks Rush!

[Kurovski]

125. Rush loves DU!

He thinks it's hawt! I swear, I've seen him trolling. He's quite good with the language.

[stevedeshazer]

86. March 2002, lurked summer 2001.

I love you, DU!

[Hello_Kitty]

87. Lurking or posting? I lurked from 2002 but joined in 04. eom

[Ohio Joe]

95. I don't remember

I know I lurked for at least a year before I joined. I also don't remember how I found it either... heh, how does everyone remember shit like this, I have trouble remembering what I had for dinner last night :D

[ixion]

96. 2002...

after "everything changed"

[teamster633]

97. I was among the "10%ers" from the "selection" onward.

Until I found this place in 2004, I had no idea that there were still a few people in this country that didn't have their heads buried deep in Little Boot's butt. If it wasn't for this place I might have gone right off the edge back in the darkest days of Dim Son's reign.

[martymar64]

98. 2003 - I think I came here via Buzzflush or Bartcop

I came across those while looking for the GOPstopper.

[muffin1]

99. Lurked for years,

and joined in 2006 after we won Congress. Found it through 'dubyaspeak'. DU saved my life, too - I was working for a repuke who LOVED shrub.

[Broken_Hero]

102. May of 2005,

heard about this site from one of my wife's co-workers. I first arrived at the tail end of 04, and read a lot before joining in May of 05.

[Rhiannon12866]

103. Must have been January of 2003 because

I finally saw the light after 9/11 and I was here during the horrible lead up to the invasion of Iraq. x(

My friend turned me on to DU and I've since paid it forward numerous times. I wouldn't have survived the election of 2004 without DU. ;(

[Renew Deal]

104. 2003, but not because of Iraq.

I got here for the primary wars. I was referred here by someone organizing for one of the candidates. He said DU was an important site. I hadn't heard of it before. I came here to vote in a poll and never left. :D

[Skittles]

105. I was disgusted by the Supreme Court election theft

and searched the internet for others who felt the same - read something by William Pitt referencing DU - I lurked for a while, joined in Aug 2001 and the rest is history :D

[Canuckistanian]

106. I arrived at DU with only a single dollar bill in my pocket

And a rant about electronic voting sewn into the lining of my threadbare coat.

Some nice gentleman named Atrios kindly directed me here.

The rest is History. Or was it Algebra? I forget.

[Kurovski]

107. They call me Kurovski...

2001. I lurked for months, in abject terror of all I beheld. And now? And now?

[scarletwoman]

117. There, there, dear man. Nothing to be afraid of.

DU hath charms to soothe thy savage breast.

:*

[Kurovski]

127. Would you please...

stop looking at my breast, madam?

Or not. :*

You know, I rarely use the kiss emoticon. It's not my shade of lipstick. I'm more of an orange-red, not a blue-red.

[scarletwoman]

131. Forgive me. I shall lower my gaze.

:D

[Kurovski]

133. !

:rofl: :rofl:

I'm so glad I wore my "cross-your-part" thong.

[Kurovski]

141. Did you know this bunny?

He joined DU around 2005. He kept voting Green Party because it sounded delicious to him. He is a member of DU's activist thinga-majiggy. He was almost banned for posting sex threads in 2007. Somebunny told him to behave. Then he did so indeed go ahead and behave his widdle bunny sewf.

[scarletwoman]

145. Awwwww!

He's almost as cute as my puddy tat.

:7

[baldguy]

115. 1826

It just seems like I've been here forever.

[astral]

119. Where can I look it up?

I do not see it listed in my profile but I think it was earlier than 2006.

[hlthe2b]

158. We can't look it up because you don't show your profile...

If you activate it, then the number should show up in the URL line....

[scarletwoman]

188. You are member #64762. Hovering your cursor over your mail icon shows your member number.

Subtract 10,000 from the number that shows up and you have your member number.

If you activate your profile, it will show the exact date you registered.

[scarletwoman]

121. I'm member #6679. I'm not Skinner. I registered in late summer or early fall of 2001.

I found my here via an old conglomerate discussion site called Delphi Forums. One of the Delphi political forums posted the Top 10 Conservative Idiots every week. I followed the link and started lurking for a few months.

Eventually I wanted to say something so I registered. I just can't remember whether it was before or after 9/11.

sw

[alterfurz]

165. Delphi!--had almost forgotten...

...but that site might have provided my link to DU also. Not much of a poster, but not many days since registering where #4265 hasn't checked in here!

[scarletwoman]

189. Wow! You're the only person I've ever come across on DU who knows about the old Delphi forums!

I had my own Delphi forum in those days, it was called "Indian Country (something)". Back then I was intensely involved in American Indian treaty issues and cultural preservation and such.

I'm not, myself, an American Indian, but I was living with an Ojibwe tribal historian and we collaborated on advocacy and political activism around all kinds of Native political and cultural issues. I worked as a sort of bridge between our two cultures and mindsets.

He died of a sudden massive heart attack 3 days before the 2000 election. It took years for me to recover from the loss.

Somewhere in that muddled time of grieving I made my way to DU and found a place where I could set aside my personal pain and commiserate with the larger pain of all the shocked and depressed DUers who were gathering here to mourn the stolen election.

sw

[w8liftinglady]

124. early 2005-after my kid's second deployment

[devilgrrl]

129. Found out about DU through MediaWhoresOnline and another DUer on usenet!

:crazy:

[denbot]

134. 2001and my name is denbot

I think I got here via Democrats.com, or Buzzflash.com. I used to think it was right after shrub's swearing in, but my I.D. number is 3021, so I'm guessing that is around spring of 2001.

[Marr]

136. 2001. I had a different name. I think I came over from...

Crooks and Liars... or Media Whores Online... I think. Anyway, it was the election debacle that spurred my interest originally.

[Kurovski]

139. Hedly? is that you?

:)

[MrMickeysMom]

138. I ruined my feet and knees January 2003 marching in Washington...

... and out of exhaustion, started lurking the sites mentioned by Mike Malloy, I'm pretty sure. I lurked for a while, but joined the end of 2004 when I thought I'd lost my mind through that election.

I stayed in GD for quite a while and still haven't realized the full potential of the place.

[butterfly77]

152. I know what you mean..

back then I would tape Malloy and sometimes found myself laughing out loud in public as I listen to the tapes,of his show at night then the games began and they got rid of Mike and I followed him all over the net,he was the best at expressing my anger about Bush/Cheney.

I use to crack up at Kathy singing "Its about oil"

[MrMickeysMom]

182. The funny thing about Malloy ....

He's right about a lot of stuff and he is STILL right about it,

He's a surviver in a business that would otherwise be dead via AM radio.

There is no more AM radio. And due to so called legislations, not much to hope for net neutrality.

I'll stick with Malloy as a subscriber (he says he wouldn't be surprised if his show no longer existed, due to this legislation).

I'll also stick with DU.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

140. Right after the thugs stole the 2004 election...

I needed an outlet!!! :mad: :mad:

[AsahinaKimi]

142. I checked my account

And its says 2008. I remember coming here in 2002 and reading all the time, but I wasn't ready to commit, as I had been thrown off another political website.. Democrats.com. I don't even remember the offense, other then it went against their grain. So I came here and read the comments and watched the videos, and the news. It took me till 2008, I guess to finally sign on. Happy to be here!

[scarletwoman]

143. The first member # of 2002 was 108208. The first member # of 2003 was 120010.

Everybody after that can find their registration date in their profile.

I figured out those earlier member numbers and dates through a rather laborious process by which I wasted several hours one night in late 2008 when I had nothing better to do.

:P

[kentuck]

146. I do recall we were averaging about 1000 members per month...

for a while. We must have hit 10,000 members about Feb or Mar of 2002?

[scarletwoman]

148. I remember it was a big deal when DU hit 10,000 members.

I wish those old archives were available. :(

Pretty amzing, enit, that we've been hanging out here for so many years. I can't imagine my life without DU. It's so totally part of my daily routine for over 9 years now.

:hi:
sw

[mulsh]

147. I found DU in a round about way.

My employer, a subsidiary of Health Net briefly had Free Republic as our office's home page. I started reading posts there, kept reading DU and with in about an hour I did a search for DU and was home. this all occurred in one day in 2001.

I've been here under 2 different names since then. Something weird happened with my home computer and wiped out my first ID. I managed to forget my password by the time I got anew computer and ISP so I registered as Mulsh and have been here ever since. It took me forever to make 1000 posts. I've seen lots of people come and go and survived all sorts of internal battles mostly watching from the sidelines.
I've stayed all these years because I enjoy this place and always learn something here.

[butterfly77]

153. Same thing with me and..

I didn't really know how to work the computer to well at the time..I was taking some classes at college at the time and I use to sneak on the site from time to time,I also told some of my classmates about DU one of them became afraid and said she could never look at the world the same,she never knew all of the things that were going on in the world..

[tammywammy]

149. Lurked through the end of 2004, joined March 2005. n/t

[butterfly77]

150. 2002 under a different name..

dipped in once in a while in 2001,saw the light way before 2002...

Found out through another site and liked the way DU was set up and how easy it was to manuever through pages..

[clyrc]

154. I saw someone talk about DU on Salon really early on

I told my husband about DU, and he came here immediately,but I didn't spend much time here until the summer of 2001. I finally registered late in 2001. I got to meet a great bunch of DUers the next year when my husband ran for a state office, but I haven't seen any of them here for years.

[nadinbrzezinski]

156. 2002 I think

been so long....

Found it a few months after I discovered Malloy and a few other voices on the radio... while hubby was on Pac.

[Gemini Cat]

157. 2003

Started lurking the summer of 2002 and joined on 31 July 2003.

[Poll_Blind]

159. I think I came over here from Crooks and Liars or Media Whores or someplace like...

...that. I was all like "I am about ready to shoot myself with all these fucking polls that are coming out showing how much America loves Bush."

And so, in a fit of pique to respond to something I'd read (probably some news story Keph posted) I came up with the only handle my addled mind would quickly dispense: Poll-Blind. Because fuck all those polls, Bush is a dimwit asshole!.

It was back in 2001, before September 11th, but honestly I can't recall exactly when I made my login because up to that point I had wisely only lurked in any sort of political discussion forums, falsely thinking I would pour unusual quantities of time into them if I did!

:rofl:

Man, getting a little maudlin about Keph. I learned that September 11th was going on from Keph. Not from CNN or NBC or any of those places. The cable channel I was watching had just cut from an episode of Little House on the Prarie to a big puff of billowing smoke and I had no idea what was going on. I actually thought it was some mistake, that it was from a movie they'd switched to inadvertently. No voiceover or anything. I dropped into DU and saw Keph's thread. This has gotta be a joke I thought as I went to CNN...but CNN wouldn't load up. In fact, none of the big places I checked for news would load up. And then I realized why I couldn't get to any of those web pages: Because Keph wasn't bullshitting. I remember going as white as a sheet when the realization hit me.

And even though he's sadly gone, that is still one of the biggest draws about DU for me: Before breaking news hits the air, people have already started fighting about what it means on DU. Since I've been barred by the UN from running my own intelligence service, DU is about the closest anyone can get to having their own.

:thumbsup:

PB

[Kurovski]

160. That's some history right there.

I miss Keph.

[Awsi Dooger]

161. Fall 2002

An internet search on election betting odds led to a DU thread with ridiculous quoted numbers. They were a pundit's guess with no basis in reality.

I looked at that thread for more than a day, certain someone would jump in and laugh at the absurd claims. When no one did, I joined and pointed out the true odds on the races mentioned, plus other races.

[Vickers]

164. 2003, but didn't register/post for another year. I did a Google search

on "conservative idiots" because I was so pissed off and frustrated about the ramp-up to the Iraq War, and was shocked (and awed!) that there was a website with a regular column called "Top 10 Conservative Idiots."

I wish it was still a regular thing.

[Le Taz Hot]

166. 2001 and I'm not Skinner.

:shrug: Saw one of the Administration (I think it was Skinner) on C-SPAN and clicked on the link. I keep thinking it was like November of 2001.

[DemoTex]

171. Mid-May 2001

A friend (who never joined DU) told me about DU in April 2001. I lurked for a month before I joined.

[kgnu_fan]

172. Can not vote on 2001, 2002, 2003. voting link is off...

[ismnotwasm]

174. 2004

After lurking a bit. I found out through Mediawhoresonline, Buzzflash and Bartcop, like so many others

[RedEarth]

175. 2003

[Liberal_in_LA]

176. use to be a regular at smirkingchimp (are they still around), they moved

away from forums. Others on the site recommended DU

[mrs_p]

177. early 2008 - during the primaries

I can't remember how I got here, but I had been reading every alternative news source I could find since 2001. I no longer believed a word the media wrote or said. As we lived in Seattle at the time, I could find and listen to such alternative sources. Then I moved to Colorado by myself (while hubby was still back in Seattle in school) and was desperate to find like-minded people. Somehow I ended up here and couldn't believe all the years I had missed. Though I don't post that much, I am on DU at least 1-2 hours a day. I just wish I had known sooner -- I mightn't have felt so isolated for so long...

[bigwillq]

178. Lurked in 2003, joined in 2004.

Found DU when I searched for "Howard Dean"

I wanted Dean to beat the moran.

[krabigirl]

179. 2003, but I had a different account. I lost the password. :(

[dionysus]

181. 2001

[stuntcat]

184. I was born Democrat :)

didn't get into DU til like 2006 though

[niceypoo]

185. Lurker in 2001

Member in 2002

[Lucian]

187. 2005

I had a different user name then.

[KoKo]

190. Spring 2001 and MY NAME IS NOT: "SKINNER."

What's with you? :shrug:

[RetroLounge]

192. I got here in 2001 but lurked until 2002

I think I followed a link from Buzz Flash.

RL

[highplainsdem]

193. 2004