Post the date and time you joined DU.

[ohiosmith]

Member since: Tue Sep 23, 2003, 11:17 AM

[hlthe2b]

1. Oh, fer gawd's sakes... How would we recall the exact time?

One of the 432000 seconds available during one of the 30 days of April, 2001--though I started lurking January 20, 2001.

[Angleae]

10. You could always check your profile. It's listed there.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Some of us joined before they invented time and date

[hlthe2b]

19. Not for long term members that joined in 2001

it does not. That feature probably came about somewhere in 2004 or later.

[Graybeard]

2. Sat Oct 7, 2006 08:17am

It was when Mike Malloy was fired by AirAmerica. Sam Seder directed his listeners to a petition on DU to bring Malloy back.

I've been a devoted DUer ever since.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Here you go, my dear ohiosmith!

I was thinking that it was time. I'd been lurking on and off for a couple of months...

So, I took the plunge, and my life has not been the same since!



Thu Feb 3, 2005, 10:41 AM

[ret5hd]

4. it was that time i was drunk.

only by staying drunk have i managed to stay here.

[opiate69]

5. "2003 before July 6th"

[LeftishBrit]

6. Thursday, June 24th, 2004, 11;34 a.m.

That's what it says on my profile anyway; and I don't know whether it was in British time, or which time zone.

[OrwellwasRight]

7. Tue May 11, 2004, 12:47 AM

[Tobin S.]

8. Early March 2003, right before the war started in Iraq

Used to post under a different user name.

Howard Dean was a presidential candidate at the time and I ran across one of his anti-war articles that had been linked from another site to the front page of DU. It just went from there and I've been a member of this community for 9 years now.

[alphafemale]

9. I signed on very early. You see there was this sign on the route of a certain parade

[bluedigger]

33. Everybody loves a parade!

[alphafemale]

36. There was a sign in the GWB Inauguration Parade.

That was the official launch of DU. It really seems like I was posting and reading DU before that, and some form of DU existed in the Selection nightmare. But I must be mistaken.

[Angleae]

11. Sat Jan 20, 2007, 08:21 PM

Although I was lurking for a couple years before that.

[madinmaryland]

12. Sat May 15, 2004, 05:04 PM

[MerryBlooms]

13. Tue Sep 1, 2009, 03:42 PM

[siligut]

14. Mon Mar 27, 2006, 07:54 AM

[Kadie]

15. Thu Feb 26, 2004, 12:45 PM

[auburngrad82]

16. February 20, 2004 nt

[Duer 157099]

17. Fri Nov 12, 2004, 08:54 AM

Jesus time flies. And what the hell was I doing on DU before 9am anyway?

[femmocrat]

20. Member since: Thu Jan 26, 2006, 10:20 PM

I have no memory of this momentous event, however.

[applegrove]

21. Mon Feb 7, 2005, 02:14 AM I felt so bad when Bush won a second term and Republicans were

being ***holes that I decided to get involved in American politics.

[edbermac]

22. Mon Nov 17, 2003, 08:29 PM

[Swede]

23. Wed Aug 6, 2003, 04:23 PM

Time flys when yer having fun.

[GreydeeThos]

24. Sun Feb 27, 2011, 07:40 PM

[Sky Masterson]

25. Feb 08th 2004

Not sure what time.

[KamaAina]

26. Mine just says "Member since: 2001"

it would have been in mid-September, a few days after Nineleven(TM).

[blaze]

27. I'm a newbie... Wed Sep 10, 2008, 01:35 PM

My sister's creds stand a bit taller

That/she would be annabanana

[petronius]

28. 4:45 am, Friday, February 13, 1970

I was a DUer from birth, I just didn't know it at the time...

[solara]

29. Member since: Tue Oct 3, 2006, 06:31 PM

I don't even remember how I found this place, but I -do- remember breathing a sigh of relief because I had found sanity at last!!

[benld74]

30. Dec 14, 2006, 12:22 PM B4 that I was just a lurker,,,

[ChazII]

31. Member since: Fri Feb 3, 2006, 08:45 PM

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. Sun Nov 20, 2005, 03:21 PM

Long enough so that 22 people have me on their ignore list.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

38. Their loss for sure!

[bluedigger]

34. Wed Nov 8, 2006, 11:28 AM

I stumbled in off the street and haven't been able to find my way out again. Halp!

[abq e streeter]

35. 4:37 in the morning, the 4th of July, 2007.

[orleans]

43. night owl! here's me: Member since: Fri Nov 26, 2004, 03:56 AM cst

[abq e streeter]

45. All right ! a fellow night owl and/or insomniac.

That actually surprised me that it was 4:30 am although I'm guessing that's eastern time(?) which would be 2:30 mountain time; doesn't sound QUITE as crazy as 4:30, I guess, at least to me. (?)
I did remember all along that it had been the 4th of July, which just seemed, and seems somehow like a good day to have joined DU.

[AsahinaKimi]

37. Member since: Tue Oct 28, 2008, 02:27 PM

seems like it was longer.

[evlbstrd]

39. Member since: Wed Feb 9, 2005, 01:53 AM

In the wee hours, hmmm….

[Bassic]

40. June 5th 2005, 9:02am

I'm so hardcore.

[greendog]

41. Member since 2001.

I found DU on 9/11/01. Joined a few days later. Didn't start posting till Dec 2001.

[Rosie1223]

42. I didn't bring a date.

My husband frowns on that sort of thing.

[unapatriciated]

44. Mon Dec 17, 2007, 03:37 PM

Started reading and lurking in 2002. Move On was the first on-line community I joined in 2001. I spent time after that organizing local house parties and protests in opposition to bush's little war. I lived in a very small (republican) town at the time and had to travel to larger cities to meet like minded people.

[wysimdnwyg]

46. Wed Oct 22, 2003, 03:05 PM

1,900 posts in 9+ years. I really don't post much, do I.

[bikebloke]

47. 2001

Probably around Autumn, though I'd been reading since January of that year.