Here is a snapshot of DU at about 10 weeks old..

[kentuck]

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405050523/http://www.democraticunderground.com/

[sakabatou]

1. I miss the Top 10

Anyone know when it'll be back?

[Octafish]

2. Always ahead of the curve.

DUers are tops.

Thank you, kentuck.

[Warpy]

3. Thanks for that

That's just around the time I found this site, the Top 10 linked at Buzzflash.

There's a lot I miss from the early days. Whatever happened to Auntie Pinko?

[Hissyspit]

34. She just kind of quit doing it.

Around 2007, I think. http://journals.democraticunderground.com/AuntiePinko

I PM'd Delilah why she quit doing BlogBox a while back and she said it was just time-consuming.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. "Dubya: Salmonella is good for kids."

:wtf:

[Hekate]

5. God, I wish I had been here then. I felt utterly alone in my perception of the coup d'etat.

[AnArmyVeteran]

32. I feel the same way. I just 'discovered' Keith & Rachel in Jan 09.

I kept wondering why the media which is supposed to be liberal wasn't telling the truth about Bush. Of course, I know the media isn't liberal. It's corporate and all they care about are their bottom lines.

[saracat]

6. I really liked the earlier DU.

[EFerrari]

7. Oooooo! A Hate Mailbag!

I LOVE those!

[villager]

8. To paraphrase what Burt Lancaster once said about the Atlantic Ocean, "DU was something then --

...you should've seen DU in those days."

[roguevalley]

38. finding this place back then kept me from bursting into flames

I love that pic, Kentuck. Thank you.

[Onceuponalife]

9. Bring back Auntie Pinko!!

[intheflow]

10. Ah, before 9-11 and Katrina and the illegal wars.

And the Gulf oil disaster. We were so innocent then!

[Mimosa]

11. I remember back then.

I used to be put off by the hokey design and didn't post much.

[Wilms]

12. The old DU logo is cool.

[jotsy]

13. Sure looks different from the contemporary screen I know.

Great time capsule stuff, Sir Tuck. Thanks for letting us developing DUers in on how it looked fresh out of the gate.

[bleever]

14. The audacity...the brilliant pebbles

that SDI could only aspire to....


Thanks. As good as the first edition of any of my other favorite things.

[pnorman]

15. I go back quite a long way on DU, but I don't recognize that page layout.

Guess I don't go back that far!

[Grey]

16. The Good Old Days....

[Senator]

17. Seems a lifetime ago

Outsider political activists were thin on the ground then. The Voter Right March (banner ad) folks were Citizens for Legitimate Gov't. Including DU, I count a Magnificent Seven.

That was the group that took the number from 15% who said the election was not "fair and square" up to a slim majority.

Until ... well, you know.

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[B Calm]

18. I remember. . . Thanks kentuck

[FSogol]

19. delete

[conscious evolution]

20. I see where grovelbot

had a different job back then.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010405050523/http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=lobby

[conspirator]

21. Back when there were still jobs n/t

[TBF]

22. A DU that was pro-labor and anti-war - PLEASE bring it back! nt

[MilesColtrane]

23. Awwwww....they grow up so soon!

*sniff*

[blondeatlast]

24. Very cool! Thanks, kentuck! nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

25. Maybe in 10 years FR will have an interface that advanced

Instead of looking like a late 80's bbs.

[Scurrilous]

26. Nice touch, eh?

:thumbsup:

[BurtWorm]

27. I went to the voter march in DC

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405050523/

:patriot:

Funny how a few teabaggers can disrupt one townhall and the media see an influential movement, but they completely ignored the thousand or so of us who marched past the Supreme Court shouting, "Shame on you!"

[oldlib]

28. About the Time,

That I couldn't get Mediawhores.com I found Democratic underground and I have read the comments from that time. I have been expressing my thoughts within the past year.

[L0oniX]

29. Hate mail bag still works too.

[punkin87]

30. K&R

[madmax]

31. Hate mailbag made my day, rofl. nt

[progressoid]

33. Bring back the HATE MAILBAG!!11!

Love to read elementary level prose.

[underpants]

35. The Admins have made this (IMHO) the best site on the net

the members have too

I judge any site I go to against DU and none stand up. Facebook is a joke compared to DU. The Freep is like scratching in the dirt.

[flvegan]

36. "Sorry, we have no telephone."

LOL!

[patrice]

37. I have that t-shirt with the Gore popular vote count on it.

[madmax]

39. Must read 'Top Ten Conservative Idiots'.

I shouldn't laugh - the subject matter is serious but, the writing compels me to lol.