DU Class of 2001, Check In!

[Le Taz Hot]

So, I was just wondering how many of us that joined in 2001 are still here and how you found your way to DU.

I heard about DU from two different sources; Skinner was on CSPAN right about the time one of the political message groups I was in started talking about DU so I got curious. I started lurking about July 2001 and actually joined about November.

So, who else will be celebrating 15 years on DU?

[Uben]

1. Voted most likely to secede!

I found this joint via a link on BUzzFlash. Came here to read what folks with like minds had to say about the election theft. Couldn't find the damned door out, so I just stayed!

[Fuddnik]

2. That's where I found it!

I don't remember my old user name. We were allowed to change it, once, I think back in 2004.

[MsLeopard]

3. Checking In

Been here from the beginning, practically.

[QC]

4. Checking in!

I found DU from a link on Salon's old table Talk forum. This place kept me sane in the aftermath of the Bush coup.

Anybody else remember all of us hanging out here together on 9/11? That was another DU-kept-me-sane time.

[Mika]

5. Been here since day two.

Saw someone on CSPAN, at a Bush/Gore SCOTUS decision protest, with a Democraticunderground.com sign. When I joined there were under 100 registered users.

[SoCalDem]

6. Saw the sign on c-span and joined a few months later

I do not post much these days..too many trollish nit-pickers for my tastes, but I still check in every day to see what's happening

[Maeve]

103. good to see you, old friend! eom

[Heddi]

7. Checking in.... Here since October 2001

Same user name, too,!

[RussBLib]

8. I think it was Bartcop

I was pretty heavy in the Bartcop forum and I'm pretty sure he mentioned DU and that was that.

I keep letting life get in the way of posting, which is why my post count is relatively low.

Now, when I'm here, I spend most of my time in the Atheist & Agnostic group.

[boguspotus]

19. I heard about it through Bartcop too

And that's when my long time lurking began on DU.

[salin]

71. Buzzflash led me to Bartcop and a post about captain bunny pants (and a visit from the FBI)

got me here. Technically in the first couple of days of January 2002 - so I arrived before the end of the calendar year of when DU started, but not the end of the regular calendar year (missed by about 2 days).

[madfloridian]

89. lol I remember captain bunny pants.

Getting a little sentimental here. Bartcop led a lot of us here. He once called me at home one night to thank me for a donation. Hubby was sitting there cracking up trying to hear both sides of the conversation.

[salin]

93. Now that's a personal touch one doesn't hear of today.

I think I also got led to the 'Media Horse' through Bartcop. I still miss the Media Horse site and alerts.

[katsy]

9. Checking in!

2001

[Melurkyoulongtime]

10. I've lurked here since the night of 9/11/01

when I typed into Google "George W. Bush is a f***ing a$$hole" or something along those lines... didn't really post, just lurked, but I think my old user name was Yosarrianlives. ETA: DU was the first hit Google brought up for the above parameters, rofl.

[chemp]

11. Bartcop linked a top 10 Conservative Idiots 15 yrs ago

I stayed for the cheese.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

127. Same here

Signed up as a member in 2001. Kept me reasonably sane during the Bush years.

I miss Bartcop. RIP, old friend.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Still here. Still enjoying the cross-section of humanity and thoughts that appear here.

And, it beats working for a living.

As I recall, I found it mentioned on some leftist site I visited.

[madfloridian]

13. Found it in 2001, didn't post until 2002.

So I figure this is beginning my 14th year.

I lurked forever because all these strange new liberal things I was hearing had to sink in to this conservative Southern Baptist fundamentalist mind I had then.

Took a while.

Yet now I am being accused of being fringe and radical.

[Coventina]

15. Same here. Lurked in 2001, joined in 2002.

[Paulie]

42. Another 2002

[salin]

72. I joined like Jan 2 of 2002. Hey - its an anniversary today and I didn't realize it.

Toast!

[LiberalEsto]

73. Likewise here

[TheMightyFavog]

88. Lurked as early as late '01, finally joined in '02.

Fark brought me here. They used to link to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots list every week.

[easttexaslefty]

138. Right?!?! :

Me too.

[SheilaT]

14. Almost, but not quite. I'll check in anyway.

My then husband has discovered DU early on and used to forward Top Ten Conservative Idiots to me, and sometime in 2002 (date doesn't show up in my profile, only the year) I finally signed on. I used a different screen name in the early years, then when we got the amnesty to allow us to change that and keep our post count, I became SheilaT.

Those first years were quite different, weren't they?

[SCantiGOP]

16. I joined when the site still used telegraphs

Well, it was a long time ago.
My enthusiasm has come and gone at different times but I have made some good friends here over the years.
I know we are split into 2 warring camps at the moment but that will change once the nomination is settled in a month or so.

[cally]

17. Still around but rarely post

Can't stand another round of primary wars on DU. I saw the initial sign on CSPAN but started posting right after 9/11. This was the only place talking about Bush running away and not leading the day of the attack.

[WilliamPitt]

18. May 2001, greeted by Crewleader

Back when here was still "here."

Take care, all. Good to see all these old-school names.

[Le Taz Hot]

22. I was hoping you'd pop up.

[madfloridian]

30. Greeted by Crewleader and NewYawker....

Newyawker celebrate our milestones.

[shanti]

41. Yes, newyawker!

I remember her as well! She made everyone feel welcome. I found DU right after 9/11, but started posting in 2002 under a different name, and changed it during amnesty time.

Someone (can't remember her name) from a totally different board told me about top ten conservative idiots recommended DU and I've been here ever since. It was much different then, wasn't it?

[mulsh]

20. I've been here since 2001 under 2 accounts.

I think the first account got lost in one of the server updates. I found DU the day I discovered FR due to an out going IS tech assigning FR as our company's home page one day. Every post I read there badmouthed DU, so I came here after reading about 5 posts. Been here ever since but I don't post all that much.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

21. Checking in.

I joined in late 2001, I think it was November.

[JHB]

23. I came over though Bartcop...

...following links he gave. Lurked for a while (2-3 months?), and then joined shortly after 911 so that I could reply to someone.

Come to think of it, it might have been on 911 itself. All the news sites were clogged and this was one of the few places I could get information. I remember making a post someplace asking if anyone knew what kind of plane had hit (Cessna? Airliner?) before the second plane struck. Good chance I asked it here.

[Warpy]

24. I found it through one of the first Top Ten Conservative Idiots posts

which was linked on Buzzflash, when Buzzflash was a small site with only a few articles and editorials linked. It was back when we were assigned passwords, which I forgot after a few posts, so I had to sign up with a new name when we could set our own passwords. However, it was when the Top Ten list was in single numbers, so I found it pretty quickly.

Never was a website more needed than this one was. Stupid had been illegally installed in office by his older brother and a corrupt USSC. Most of us knew how bad he would be and it turned out he was even worse. This site kept us sane in the face of 24/7 happy face propaganda from the blow dried bobbleheads on our TV sets.

[underpants]

32. Here! I ended up here because of Bob Boudelang or via (no kidding) Free Republic

It was either that I stumbled onto to DU from a Buzzflash link to a Top 10 OR I was on the Freepers site looking for a discussion of news (hey it was the first thing I found) and they were trashing a Will Pitt article here on DU. So I went to check out DU and saw Ask Auntie Pinko - the question was "If I vote Republican will it make me feel more rich?" ~~~something like that.

I think I joined in October of 2001 or shortly thereafter.

[MadashellLynn]

25. I came for the Top Ten Conservative Idiots linked from Bartcop

and here I am still. I don't post much but I read GD everyday.

[MisterP]

40. ditto! I was grossed out by Pat Buchanan

[deutsey]

26. I joined sometime around the spring of 2001

What a long, strange trip it's been.

I think I found DU through Buzzflash, to which I used to contribute and which linked to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots.

[hedda_foil]

122. Quite a few of us got here by way of Buzzflash it seems

I knew about the site from inauguration day when Skinner and Elad carried their DU banner right in front of the tv cameras, then Buzzflash started carrying the Top 10 Conservative Idiots, and I started lurking at the home page because I couldn't figure out how to get to the forums. Finally got in around October or November 2001 around the time the anthrax scare began and it all detailed too neatly with the maladministration's hyping attacking Iraq. I don't think I actually signed in and started posting until they let Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in December or January.

I had forgotten about most of it entirely until I started to answer the OP.

[Aristus]

27. Checking in!

Started lurking: March, 2001.
Joined DU: September, 2001. Roughly one week after September 11th.

I can't imagine ever leaving...

[Orangepeel]

28. The top ten conservative idiots list was a great recruiting tool!

I don't remember where I saw it. A yahoo message board, I think. I joined pretty soon into 2001 -- March, maybe.

[Maeve]

105. Somewhere on my computer is a gif I found for you

And yes, the top ten brought a LOT of us here!

[KittyWampus]

29. My account says 2001, but I lurked for a while. Found DU via Smirking Chimp

and Bartcop.

[Doctor_J]

31. Present

I don't know how I found it. Probably google. That was back when DU was nearly unanimous against war and other conservative policies.

[Journeyman]

33. April or May, on recommendation of Bartcop. . .

Didn't know if I wanted to get caught in what I perceived could be a vast time-suck, so didn't join until June or July.

It's had its moments but held enough appeal that here I am, almost a quarter of my life spent among these boards.

[meow2u3]

34. One of the original DUers checking in

I first signed up as fed2dneck, then during the first name change amnesty, was stopthependulum. Now, I'm meow2u3 and am keeping this user name.

Happy 15th Birthday, DU!

[BarbaRosa]

35. Raises hand.

I used to hang out at a place called "Turn Left". After time it got so polluted due to lack of monitoring I left, which is about the time DU came into existence. A trip thru Google led me here.

[Drifter]

36. Long time lurker

Been here since the very beginning

Cheers
Drifter

[comradebillyboy]

37. I joined in 2001

[Rex]

38. Great place, still the best for progressive views.

Despite the narrowminded people here, good to see most still have critical thinking skills.

[greatauntoftriplets]

39. I found DU a couple of weeks after craphead Bush's inauguration via the Top 10 Conservative Idiots.

I had been searching for Bush jokes, probably not on Google back then. Been here ever since.

[Maeve]

104. Greetings, a chara! eom

[greatauntoftriplets]

106. Hi, Maeve!

[dawg]

43. Woof!

My enthusiasm for posting has waxed and waned through the years, but I'm still here.

[Delphinus]

44. Pretty sure that's when

I found this place. I had a different name, so didn't post much, as it was my real name and thought it wasn't wise. DU has been my sanity for many a year and my go-to place for understanding issues of import.

[s-cubed]

45. Can't remember for sure, but I think 2001. nt

[Arugula Latte]

46. Here!

[BuddhaGirl]

47. Raising hand!

Been here as mainly a lurker since 2001...I think I found my way here through Salon, but can't say for sure.

I am grateful for DU, as I have learned so much from it over the years!

Cheers!!

[IADEMO2004]

48. Bartcop sent me.

I miss 2001 DU and Bartcop.

[KentuckyWoman]

49. My sister SmileyRose found DU in 2001 through TV, lurked a year then joined in 2002

She passed away a few years ago but talked me into joining to keep her up to date while she was too sick to lurk.

You guys made an impact on me fairly quickly after she joined thanks to the info she gained and new perspectives she was exposed to that got us both thinking.

[haikugal]

56. I remember SmileyRose....

So many good people no longer with us

[pnwmom]

64. I still miss SmileyRose. She was lovely.

[winstars]

50. Saw someone on CSPAN, at a Bush/Gore SCOTUS protest, with a Democraticunderground.com

sign or was it Bartcop??? Its a bit fuzzy.

Why do all of us who joined in 2001 just have that year but no moth etc in our profiles? Newer members have the exact date when the joined.

It seems that so many of us can't actually remember when we joined, it would help if that info was available. Perhaps in some server changeover its been lost to the ages???

It has been a long time though, went by fast!!!

[Solly Mack]

51. (Me)

[Paladin]

52. I'm still around. (nt)

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

53. Checking in

Pretty much have been here since almost the beginning. I think BARTCOP was the person who made me aware of the site. (We miss you, Bart.)

DU has been a source of sanity and information ever since Bush was appointed by the SCOTUS.

[bobthedrummer]

54. Present. I am now part of the real DU reality-based community-ready or not!

Chapter 21-Omaha
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139460

[11 Bravo]

55. I lurked in '01 and joined up in '02. Does that count?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

57. Buzz flash

[Trajan]

61. Yeah ... BuzzFlash led me to DU ...

I did see the DU banner on TV during the inauguration, but I didn't get the connection until I came in and wandered around a little ...

BuzzFlash was a great news compendium ... Shit was flying fast during Dimson's reign ... Keeping ahead of information was why I came to DU in the first place ...

[baldguy]

58. .

[librechik]

59. yo--

i was annoying everybody on my other forums with liberal links--finally a safe place tp post them!

[Trajan]

60. Lurked in 2001 - Joined in 2002 ...

I was hanging out in C-SPAN and Yahoo Political Forums .... Right wingers are fucking NUTS ! ...

DU was/is a respite from the crazy ....

[Habibi]

62. Found this place after Wellstone died.

I missed the inaugural.

[countryjake]

63. I signed up in April of 2001...

after struggling like a madwoman during the Clinton-era with a bunch of rightwingers at an innocuous message board (Mediadomain) that turned exceedingly bitter (and political) during Primary Season for the Election of 2000. Several of us from that site came here after Skinner opened for business to glean juicy articles and pertinent thoughts and then haul them back over to our soap opera board to watch the wingnuts heads explode.

I originally joined as "moe" (same as I was on Michael Gill's site) but family illnesses, deaths, took me back to the boonies of Ohio, away from any computer access and I eventually had to rejoin here under my current moniker after my return to wa.

DU was an amazing place back then, an amazing source of excellent information!

[Hekate]

65. 2002, actually. A friend who joined earlier kept bumping into me at antiBush rallies....

She suggested DU to me several times before I looked it up. Wherever she is today because during the BushCheney admin DU kept me at least marginally sane.

[Samantha]

66. I found DU through an Internet search about three months after it started up

I had been very depressed since the Bush* inauguration because no one seemed to be talking about the theft of the election anymore. I read everyday and did not post because I had a job that I was terrified would find out about my association with this site. After a few months, I broke and had to start posting because I was also furious about another issue. That other issue was the fact that only one or two Dems stepped out and gave a word of support to Gore during the controversial fight. One was Dick Gephardt and I can't remember who the other was -- perhaps Kerry. Just two Dems, that was it. Cowards and traitors, that was how I looked at the great wall of the Democratic mutes.

So I opened up my posting here with "Where were they? Where were they?" just so highly critical of those in the party because no one backed Gore up. As you can imagine, coming here and criticizing the Democratic Party all to h*ll did not exactly make for a warm welcome from the crowd. Also during those months, I was extremely critical of the DLC. The DLC was not an issue here at that time, but I kept harping on it as well.

I finally decided I need to sign up towards the end of the year because I could not let go of the harm that had been done to this Country, and if it became known at my work I was a member here, so be it. Eventually, I found myself so deeply embedded here I could not imagine every leaving.

Over the last 15 years, I have learned to be a lot more refined in articulating my arguments, and I have also received three marriage proposals! This place is a lot of different things: intelligent, belligerent, caring -- whatever one needs from a political home can be found right here, as long as that one is a left-leaner, of course.

(always) Samantha from 2001

[ladyVet]

67. I wasn't technically a member until 2004, but I was here in early 2001.

I think it was February? Sometime around then. I found it from a link on -- of all places -- a low carb forum. A member there was around here, and I decided to check it out. Universe knows, I needed someplace to come that understood how bad Dumbya was.

When 911 happened, I came here for the real news, and to commiserate with people who understood what that meant to this country. Gods, those were awful days.

[kentuck]

68. I wrote under my real name for a few weeks.

and signed on as 'kentuck' around late March or early April of '01. We were fighting to save the country.

[tkmorris]

69. Still on this fecking island...

[BigDemVoter]

70. Me--reincarnated. . .

I joined, I think, right during the aftermath of the theft of the election (Gore-Bush) and the lack of outrage on the part of the Democratic Party & the press brought me here after seeing (Skinner?) somewhere on television. . .

[beac]

120. Me too, under a different user name.

Then I moved out of the country for awhile and changed email addresses and thus lost access to that account. When I moved back to the US, I was an occasional lurker and then finally re-joined in 2008.

[JCMach1]

74. Still kicking...

[electricmonk]

75. started lurking in 2001

Shortly after Sept 11 I was thinking I can't be the only person out there that still thinks Bush is an idiot. Couldn't believe he had a 90% approval during that time. Finally signed up in Jan '02. Never been a prolific poster though.

[Johnyawl]

76. Been here since March 2001...

...my wife (GeniPH) found DU first, she doesn't remember how she found it. I joined right after her. Almost 15 years now under the same name. I don't post much, but I read DU everyday, it's my primary news source.

[Blue_Adept]

77. That'd be me

First week or so if I recall. I was using DCForum on my site and saw the conversations about DU there. Was big into bartcop, APJ and buzzflash at the time.

[Pakhet]

78. Checking in :)

I found this site from a tshirt wearer that walked into my 2nd job at krispy kreme in texas one night.

[dog_lovin_dem]

79. I wasn't a member until

after the 2004 debacle, and have never been a big poster, but I've been lurking since shortly after 9/11. I followed a link from either buzzflash or truthout. Will Pitt made mention of this joint and I have been a daily visitor ever since.

[Oilwellian]

80. Signed up as Oaf Of Office in 2001

I was hanging out in AOL's "From the Left" chat room and found DU via either BartCop or Buzzflash. What a long, strange trip it's been.

[Skittles]

81. you want I should kick your 15-year DUing ass, Le Taz Hot?

I AM IN THAT CLUB YOU KNOW; yes INDEED

[Le Taz Hot]

98. OK, Mistress Skittles but I can't pay you

until the 15th.

[Skittles]

116. I know you have great credit, Le Taz Hot

[denbot]

82. 2001'er here

Found DU through either Buzzflash, or Democrates.com.

[davsand]

83. Still here. Not all the time, but I still stop by sometimes.

I show up most Sundays for Salmonchantedevening's weekly Lounge post most weeks, and I cruise thru the major forums some days. Usually I stop by if something is in the news that makes me want local insights. DU is still good for that.

I found DU by following a link from another political site. At the time there were some amazing researchers here. I read for a while and joined on the spot. It was early in after the selection. Salon had gone pay to post and I was wandering the cyber wasteland looking for a place to land.

Good to see some of the old guard turn up.


Laura

[dmr]

84. Joined as soon as I saw the banner on installation day

In fact I ran to my computer. I remember doing a Tom Cruise, sliding in my socks across the floor. I was beside myself that day and sobbing. To me, democracy had died.

I felt so alone. I was hoping to see protesters in DC, but I saw very few. It wasn't until much later that I learned the media chose not to show, or at least explain the masses of people that did protest. Argh ....

DU's first day was crazy. It scared the hell out of me. Republicans were allowed to post back then. lol, it was the wild, wild west.

DU gave me a port in the storm. It drove me crazy that people in real life either didn't understand, or didn't care. DU has changed my life in so many ways. I love DU, even when I get mad at it.

Thank you to all of the DU community for the solace and education. Not to brag, but I'm a lot more smarter now! Also, I think DUers are the most creative, and has the best best bunch of comedians in the world!

[Liberal_in_LA]

85. not me. Smirkingchimp was my preferred forum

[Pastiche423]

86. Began lurking in 2001

Registered in 2002 from a link at the Smirking Chimp.

[demwing]

87. Joined in 2001, changed my nic in the great swap of 2004

I think I started with a Gore-based name (I came from a "Gore for President" forum where I was one of 4 admins), but I've been "demwing" for so long I can't remember any other name...

[DrDan]

90. still here

[ProfessorGAC]

92. Hey Dan!

Happy New Year from another old timer!

[DrDan]

95. Happy New Year to you as well - hard to believe it has been 15 years, isn't it

I still remember my first welcoming response from CrewLeader - welcoming me and sending me to the Florida activist group.

[ProfessorGAC]

114. Yeah, Everyone Got Welcomed By CL

Shame they moved to a different plane. I loved her posts.

[ProfessorGAC]

91. Checking In

I came here for your first event in your OP. I heard Skinner on CSPAN Washington Journal on a Saturday or Sunday morning and went to the website a few days later.

IIRC, it was late winter or early spring. March?

[B Calm]

94. Still here!

[KG]

96. dang, I was still young, thin and good-looking back when I stumbled in here...

[dry99]

97. Under the radar but here since 2001

Account status: Active
Member since: 2001
Number of posts, all time: 138
Number of posts, last 90 days: 0

[mahina]

133. Whoa. I thought I'd win the time/posts lowest

As I try to listen more and talk less. You beat me handily.

[Owl]

99. Checking in.

Still here.

DU Class of 2001

[Maeve]

100. Don't remember how I heard about the Top Ten Idiots

But that brought me here in the summer--I remember coming back to get news from New York on 9/11.

on edit--probably was Buzzflash that brought me as well. and for those who don't know--the nic came from Irish mythology, Maeve was an Irish queen/goddess who went to war over a large bull and I wanted to fight a large amount of bull, too!

[Carolina]

101. Checking in

Don't recall whether it was Buzzflash or Bartcop, my all time favorite, that led me here; but in this crazy world, DU keeps me sane. It also keeps me informed since I turned off network "news" following the 2000 selection (aka theft 2000) as well.

[Jokerman]

102. Remember Media Whores Online?

I found a link to DU there around the time it started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Whores_Online

[melman]

141. Who could forget The Horse?

Best site ever.

[peacebird]

107. Found it when a neighbor across the street told me it was her favorite site

[LaydeeBug]

108. Had a diferent name. Came via bartcop. nt

[matt819]

109. Add me to that list

Still here.

[alphafemale]

110. I remember the sign at the bushbaby inaugural parade.

But it really seems like there was something with Skinner and gang going on before that.

I was involved in several different groups and it is all a bit hazy a decade and a half down the line.

I remember laughing at the egging and laughing at how juvenile and petty he was to remove the license plate from the limo because it called for DC Statehood.

But I also remember how ominously gloomy it was that day.

I told my friends. Something really bad is going to happen because of this man. Something really bad.

They laughed at me.

[SammyWinstonJack]

111. Still here, since February 2001, led here from Buzzflash.

[Retrograde]

112. I thought I joined much later, but my profile says 2001

I don't remember how I found DU - I think I stumbled over it that summer, lurked for quite a while, and joined around 9/11. Still lurk more than I post, even though DU is the first site I go to every morning.

[scarletwoman]

113. Still here, I think I registered in late summer 2001.

Found DU through "Top Ten Conservative Idiots" - someone on a different political forum I was on at the time used to re-post it every week. DU has been my home page ever since I joined.

When I look back over all the things that have happened in my personal life since 2001, it's really kind of strange and weird that this website has been the one constant presence through it all. Rarely has a day gone by in all these years that I haven't opened up DU and at least scanned through a few posts.

I cannot even begin to imagine not having DU as part of my life.

[bikebloke]

115. It may have been BuzzFlash or Bartcop.

I read for about six months before joining.

[neverforget]

117. Joined in July or August of 2001.

[KamaAina]

118. Delurked shortly after Nineleven(TM).

Pointed over here by Buzzflash, specifically to Top Ten.

[hedda_foil]

119. Me. I joined right after Bushncheney let Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora into Pakistan.

So either December of 2001 or January 2002.

[spinbaby]

121. I joined right after 9/11

We couldn't get news at work that day because all the news sites on the Internet had slowed to a crawl, but then a coworker found a place to get news. That place was DU.

[Generic Other]

123. Lurked from Day 1

Here and on Media whores. Followed Will Pitt's editorials. Looked for anyone online who felt as strongly as I did about the usurping bastard in the White House. Took a few months to finally get up the nerve to post.

[Scout]

124. think i originally saw a link in comments on a Slate article??

been here since late 2001 i think, i forgot how to look it up.

[Art_from_Ark]

125. I've been here since practically Day 1

I found a link to this site at either gwbush.com, Media Whores Online, or Buzzflash.

[MADem]

126. I joined in 2001, but I lost my sign in details so I had to rejoin in 2004.

Let that be a lesson to anyone using a work computer to surf for news!

I wasn't much of a poster back then, I think I had only several dozen posts in those years. I was an avid reader, though.

[villager]

128. heck, it might just be 14 years for me....

The late and lamented PurityofEssence told me about this place, but I think it was some weeks/months after the election was already stolen, and the nation -- as we now see -- damaged beyond actual repair...

[mahina]

129. I was here since I saw the banner during the *

Inaugural parade/egg throwing contest but didn't post till 03.

Wow, 15 years. Thank you Skinner, Elad, and all.

[LibDemAlways]

130. Member of Class of 2001. I must have

googled "anti Bush" or "Bush criminal" which led me to BartCop -- who had a link to DU on his blog. Attended an early LA DU meetup. A few of the people who were at the gathering still post.

I miss BartCop. Hope if there's life beyond this world he's enjoying a daily shot or two of Chinaco Anejo and listening to Shirley Manson.

[AnnieBW]

131. I'm pretty sure that I joined in 2001.

I was reading the Top 10 Conservative Idiots on another page, and came here because of it.

[fishwax]

132. 15 years ... wow, it's been a long time

I found DU through Bartcop, I think. Might have been buzzflash. Good times.

[greendog]

134. 09/11/01

Came over from a link on Smirking Chimp.

[notadmblnd]

135. I think I found DU in 2003. I do remember that the numbers of users

was around 29,000 at the time. I don't think the number of users is even posted anywhere any longer but there's got to be over 100k by now.

[easttexaslefty]

136. Pretty sure me.

Might have been 2002 but I think it was 2001

[easttexaslefty]

137. Heard about du

While at a Iraq war protest. In dallas tx. Figure that.

[haele]

139. Me! July/August 2001.

Lazarus (April, 2001) sometimes reads over my shoulder, but he doesn't post anymore. He has difficulties typing, and would rather keep a lot of his political rage to a minimum due to pain.

We were the first DU wedding, March 2002.
Haele

[kaycee22]

140. Still here

Still lurking

[bobthedrummer]

142. Who else? n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

143. Although my profile reads 'member since 2003'. I started to post here between '01-'02. nt

[Chellee]

144. Top Ten Conservative Idiots hooked me.

I started lurking in 2001, I joined in 02, though honestly, I didn't post much then either.

I lost...well, everything, in 07. It took me two years to get a roof over my head, and a computer, and internet service again. By that time I could no longer remember my password, and I only thought my user name was 'Chelle' I wasn't sure. But I couldn't rejoin using that name because it was "being used." (probably by me, LOL)

Of course, even if I had all of those old posts to add to the ones I have now, I'd still probably be less than 2500.