Old-timers, check in.

[WilliamPitt]

I showed up here for the first time on May 21st, 2001. My first post was an incoherent blither about Gore and the 2000 election. Crewleader, the stoutest Gore defender to be found anywhere, ignored my rant and welcomed me to DU with a warm embrace.

Tell me your story.

Oh, PS, if you showed up just last week, but have been throwing down in GD with regularity, you count as an old-timer. You already know everything there is to know. ;)

Nader sucks. Nader rules. Vincent Bugliosi is God.

Yeah, I remember.

[MrScorpio]

1. I am DUer #14,296, been around since '02

And I'm a bad mutha-shut-yo-mouth

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Just talkin' 'bout MrScorpio...

Alas, I don't count as an oldtimer.

[DrDan]

126. how do you know that

DUer # 14,296?

[MrScorpio]

155. You're #4,917

Check the URL in your profile

[fishwax]

169. cool! I didn't know that

I guess I'm 6370 ...

[cally]

172. That's amazing..I'm 7053

Thanks for letting me know about that. I joined in late 2001. I went looking for the 10 percenters who didn't approve of * after 9/11.

[Kenneth ken]

3. checking in

I came to DU about late September-early october of 2001. I used to read Bushwatch daily. One day I read a really nice essay post-911 by someone named William Rivers Pitt. A couple weeks later I saw another essay by him, and clicking on it brought me to DU.

That brought me here, and I saw there were actually people posting and discussing things rather than just essays and articles I could read.

Fascinated, I've been here ever since, though I still read much more than I post. I've definitely learned a lot in the past four years.

:hi: (and thanks)

[enigmatic]

4. semi-short timer

2004; I lurked for about a year before I actually posted; I can't remember what my first post was, but I remember it was in GD. I don't think I posted in The Lounge for a few months after I started posting..

[Az]

5. Been here since 02

I used to do religious debate on a regular basis online. Due to a shift in jobs I found myself without the time to commit to the debate. So I gave it up.

Spent some time wandering around. I found that much of what I had been arguining alongside the religious issues were the political aspects that we were beset by. So I started examining more and more politlical sites. Eventually found my way here. Been here ever since. I have had my doubts about the Dems in the time since I have been here, but I have decided that it's a party worth fighting for and reclaiming it's identity.

[billyskank]

6. Been here as "billyskank" since 2002

I lurked for a while before that. Back then GD was more like the Lounge is now, except without the most inane threads and more politics. You could talk about anything there, but nowadays it moves too fast so only the most popular topics survive. I suspect that's why so many have retreated to the Lounge.

Is it possible to find out what date we got our accounts? Newer people have their signup dates recorded in their profiles, but ours just say "2001" or "2002". :(

[Az]

7. Yeah I was wondering that myself

I seem to recall being here in 2001. But my rec says 2002. Might have been early 2002. Just wondering.

[billyskank]

9. Your id number is 8778 compared to my 12901

which indicates you signed up at least a little while before me. I'm sure I signed up in the first half of 2002 (I thought it was earlier to be honest, but I guess I lurked for longer that I thought), and you clearly signed up before me.

[DemReadingDU]

46. how do you determine your ID number?

thanks!

[billyskank]

49. Explained here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4200939&mesg_id=4201130

[hfojvt]

10. that's what I thought too

the old lounge was more cliquey than now in my memory it was mostly insider stuff about yaks. GD is now more like LBN, going through these phases of 'what's hot now'.
Before there was a 'my posts' feature, it was hard to find out if someone had responded to your post, except for immediate responses.
My first post, although I cannot find it in the archives was in reply to a Kansan who complained that he/she felt alone in Kansas. I said 'there were over a thousand of us marching in Lawrence on a very cold February day to oppose the Iraq war so do not feel so alone'.
Lots of people have come and gone since then. I cannot even remember who half of my old friends and enemies are.

[billyskank]

11. I never even looked in the Lounge in those days

I only made my first post in here about a year ago. GD used to be the only forum I needed (before it got forked and went apeshit).

[dorktv]

8. I logged on after I met you Will.

I forget my first post. But I remember the beer.

[regnaD kciN]

12. Here since 2001...

I'm pretty sure I was here right at the beginning, having been directed here from the BartCop forum.

I can't tell for sure, though, as it seems my user id got reset when I changed my username at the end of last year.

[billyskank]

13. Your id is 3620

which is pretty low. ;)

[hippywife]

15. Hi, Billy!

Where are you seeing user id's? I don't see them in profiles.

[billyskank]

16. Hi hippywife!

To see the user id, view the profile and look at the URL of the page you are seeing. The URL ends with the user id - ignore the leading 1. Your user id is 26412.

[hippywife]

21. You are just too smart by half!

How are things in Merry 'Ol this morning? Your head feeling a little better? I saw the ear infection thing. That 'splains it, I guess. Feel better!

[billyskank]

25. Hey, the headache is gone now

Thanks for asking!

I can't take credit for the user id thing. I was shown that by someone else. :)

[DemReadingDU]

83. Thank you!

Thatleading 1 really threw me off.

[Orangepeel]

120. Cool!

I didn't realize we were numbered. I guess I'm member #2921. (Is that what will be tatooed on my hand in Gimto?)

[Arugula Latte]

129. My user id says I'm 100600, but if I ignore the "1" I get 00600 (?)

Huh? I'm confused.

I joined DU in the fall of 2001. As I recall, there were about 12,500 or so DUers then.

:shrug:

[SoCalDem]

139. Can't figure out how to get my number..

do you know it?

[shugah]

160. SoCalDem

3924

[Jackpine Radical]

190. Will Pitt is 2890. I'm 5859.

Actually, I first signed on with another name. That one was 3970 , but I forgot my password for it one day when I couldn't get to my original email so I signed on with this name, which I've used ever since.

[KG]

14. signed in Nov. 01, after lurking for a few months.

i recall when there was truly an 'underground' feel about the place. :(

[RogueTrooper]

17. Hey Will

I joined in May, or early June, 2001. I know it was just after you because I am sure my first post was to a thread you started ( I think: it has been a while ).

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Newbie here!

:hi:

[billyskank]

19. You're no newbie

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Damn! I thought I could sneak in here unnoticed....

;) :hi: Hi billy!

[In_The_Wind]

22. I'm not an old-timer but I'm not as new as I look.

I've only been here since 12/14/04.

Earlier this month an old-timer called me a worthless newbie. Nothing more important that a piece of gum under that old-timers shoe.

However most of the old-timers have been very tolerant and supportive of this old newbie.

[billyskank]

26. Hi Joani

:hi:

[In_The_Wind]

28. I didn't know you were an old-timer!

:hi::hug:

[billyskank]

31. On DU I am

I've been here for years. :) You're a young limb by comparison. :hug:

[In_The_Wind]

33. That's so very nice.

Somehow - you always find the right words to make me smile. You're gonna make somebody very happy someday. :thumbsup:

[redwitch]

177. ok I feel really dumb

I joined in 2003 before July 6th. I have no idea, even with your patient explanations, how to get my number. I know there were lots of Duers before me. I lurked for months before I logged in and posted though. DU has kept me sane and informed for a long time. Thanks DU!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. Old-timer reporting in from Kobe, Japan

I joined DU around February of 2001.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. 1/5/04 - 'spose I don't count really.

I'm tryin' though.

[In_The_Wind]

29. You Do!

to a newer newbie ...

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

34. Woah, you and I joined on the same date

[supernova]

27. Here since March 2002

I was disolute about the election and found DU in Dec or Jan... I can't remember. I started posting a couple of months afterward. There was just so much stuff to read. :crazy:

I finally saidn "hi" in the Lounge. GOPisEvil, Dweeb, and Matcom were talking about power tools. :D

After that, it was on to the abortion wars, why candidates differ from their bases, 9/11, etc......

[jmm]

30. I found DU on May 17,2001

I was looking up info on bush and the death penalty when I stumbled onto this site through a link on another. A thread in GD about standardized testing caught my eye so I joined because I wanted to respond to it. I didn't think I'd post again. I purposely picked a screen name that didn't reveal my gender because before DU I had never seen a discussion board where I didn't have to worry about being threatened or begged to "cyber". Once I realized my inbox wasn't filling with vicodin and porn spam I decided to stay around.

[bicentennial_baby]

32. 2002?2003? I can't remember...

I was here when it was still DU1, before the changeover, formerly the DUer known as toolfan, oh so long ago...

[MrScorpio]

35. Hey, Sugardrawers

Give us some WUV

[bicentennial_baby]

42. papi!

a yummy squeeze for you! :hug:

:loveya:

[StopTheMorans]

64. does "WUV" stand for "Waiting Until Vomit"?

[bridgit]

36. what's to say; freedom is not free & sometimes liberty must be taken...

:kick: :patriot:

[SarahB]

37. I guess so.

Started reading DU September 2002 after following a link from another site. Signed up under my old user name (#11,872 I just found out) November 2002. Been my current username since March 2004.
GD makes me crazy most of the time now and I avoid it (an effort in futility/repeating what others say/troll tolerance most of the time it feels). I tend to be a proverbial lizard who reads LBN.

edit: I remember when spellcheck wasn't a feature. :silly:

[jonnyblitz]

40. how do you find out your number?

I joined around january or february 2003, right before the big feb 15th anti-war demo in NYC. :hi:

[billyskank]

43. See here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4200939&mesg_id=4201130

[jonnyblitz]

48. aaah #22605. I should read the complete thread before I ask

questions. :P thanks billyskank! :hi:

[SarahB]

61. SarahBelle's only 40,955.

Still, I got sick of being called mom. It was worth it. :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

44. Remember when subject lines couldn't be edited?

:scared: Oh, the typos!

[jonnyblitz]

47. I remember that. nt

[SarahB]

59. And no "my posts".

:(

[GOPisEvil]

60. "My posts" is like crack.

What did I ever do without it?

[billyskank]

66. Do you hit refresh on that screen continually

somebody please reply to one of my posts! :cry:

:hide:

[underpants]

67. Hahaha no I don't

but I do hit on the greatest page and then go back to MY POSTS

MY GOD PEOPLE HOW CAN YOU NOT ALL RESPOND TO WHAT I JUST POSTED?!?!??!?!

[underpants]

69. French fires

I never thought that that was all that funny ( and not because I was the one who did it) but everyone else sure did.

[Pale Blue Dot]

141. You're older than me!!

I'm 13,465!

Wait... are you sure you're not a 60-year-old man? :D :loveya:

[GOPisEvil]

38. Speak up, sonny...I got here about 10 months after you.

If you made it through Primary War 2004 without throwing your computer out the window, you are a true old-timer.

[cleofus1]

39. been around a long time

a lot of people have come and gone...

user id 13655

been here since 2002 or so...

[Rowdyboy]

112. Just barely beat you cleofus.....I'm #13652

I think it was August of 2002...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

41. Joined up here approximately March to April 2002

I had been searching for a progressive site such as DU for a long time but had been unaware that such a site even existed. I had given up hope of ever finding a progressive community online but I was becoming more and more disillusioned with * and co and needed somewhere where I could express my feelings.

One day I was just feeling sick of all the nonsense that the RW was spewing about Bill Clinton so I googled something like "Bill Clinton was a good President" and it came up with a pro-Clinton site (whose name I have forgotten unfortunately and it was on my old computer so I can't find the link) which contained a link to DU. I started posting immediately and I loved the site. The Lounge was much smaller then and it was much easier to get to know people and forge relationships and friendships. Maeve and ZenLefty were the Lounge moderators when I joined and they made me feel welcome and at home.

2002 was a difficult year for most of us -the tragic and premature death of Paul Wellstone, the 2002 congressional elections and the lead up to war with Iraq. It was so wonderful having a community of friends who you could share your thoughts and innermost feelings about the state of the world with and where you could get so much encouragement, support and even love.

[underpants]

45. Registered October '01-really started posting in November of '01

I was scared to death of being called an uninformed blithering idiot ..... and then I found the Lounge


:bounce:

[billyskank]

50. I remember you in GD in the old days

Your underpants and those bananas scrolling along the bottom of every post. And matcom with his ensemble of arses.

</reminisce>

[Thtwudbeme]

53. I remember when he added panties!

;)

Now they are parents....man, time flies!

[Thtwudbeme]

51. The first post I remember of WillPitt's was "Everybody downstairs NOW"

Heh...those were the days, weren't they.

I am sure that there were other posts of his that I read, but that one sticks out in my mind...just because I remember the "real" Underground.

Wonder whatever happened to Kali? That "Dirt" forum was the best!

Stephanie

[Blaukraut]

158. Been here since early '01

I can't believe how many familiar names I see upthread! Hi everyone :hi: :hug:

[BigMcLargehuge]

52. I joined the day Shock and Awe started

I'd been reading the Top 10 every week for at least six months before that though.

[texas1928]

54. Am I an old timer?

I don't think I am.

[Moderator]

55. I'm new here.

But there is something that has bothered me for a long time as a lurker. I can't start threads yet, so I hope no one minds if I post this here.

Doesn't anyone use spell check here? It's "morons" not "morans"! Sheesh. Stupad libruls.

[GOPisEvil]

63. Bad moderator!

:spank:

[Moderator]

71. Thou shalt not spank the newbies.

[GOPisEvil]

72. Disabled profile, huh?

Are you some kind of freeper?


Just kidding - I don't want one of these:

[Moderator]

73. Thou shalt not call the newbies "freepers"

:spank:

[GOPisEvil]

75. Who? Me?

Can I call an old-timer a freeper?

[Moderator]

76. No, you may not.

And methinks it is time for you to go back to that other thread you were posting to. You know the one.

[GOPisEvil]

78. Are you following me around?

[Moderator]

81. Not at all.

I see everything.

I am Moderator.






















:P

[GOPisEvil]

84. Hmmmm...

[tigereye]

101. that's funny that you are a mod but can't start threads yet!

;)

[obxhead]

162. love ya smiley

you lurker...

[johnnie]

56. I don't know if I am or not

I still consider myself a new person here.

[sundog]

57. here i am! 2004 - i'm as old as dirt

it feels good to be in the circle of immortals :grouphug:

[catmandu57]

58. I just celebrated my fourth year here

I don't remember the exact date, it was sometime in late October 01, so I picked the 23rd, sounds right to me. Can I use my DU number in the camp? #10725 in the reeducation camp they're going to teach me how to spell moran.

[Scout]

62. been around a long time...

but don't remember my first post or when I made it.

I think I signed up shortly after inauguration 2001....

[VelmaD]

65. I lurked from day 1...

but my first post was sometime in the spring of 2001. You posted a link about the Tim McVeigh execution and I got into a little spat about the death penalty with Crewleader of all people. But we quickly found common ground and I knew after less than a half dozen posts that I was gonna become an addict. And I blame you. :)

[Lady Freedom]

68. Jul 26th 2003

is that old???:shrug:

[kmla]

70. I joined early, and then lurked for quite awhile before posting.

Member #6296.

I think my first post was to chide someone who was incensed that Home Depot was giving military members a 10% discount. My response was that "I can see why we lost ground during the last election. We are arguing over trivialities." I think it kinda honked off the OP.

Funny thing, though, I've never gotten into a Nader/Clark/Dean/Kerry/Gore flame war in my entire time posting here...

And, BTW, Vince Bugliosi is not quite as bright as most people make him out to be - he believes most of the Warren Commission Report and the lone gunman theory.

;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

74. I don't feel new........

But compared to most of you good people, I am....

Just joined in Feb, 2005. But I'm here so much that I feel very much at home....

And how I love it here...

My very first post was to Nostamj's toon thread in early Feb...

He saw it was my first, and complimented me. I still have a copy of it.

His was the first horrifying loss I experienced here. :cry:

[billyskank]

77. What?

What happened to nostamj?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

80. Good morning, my dear billy......

You're serious?

He caught the flesh-eating bacterial disease last spring...I forget the exact dates....

Went downhill fast .....and now he's dead, my dear......

But not in my heart, he isn't....

There, he will live forever......



:loveya:

[billyskank]

87. Good heavens

:wow:

I really am the last to hear these things.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

89. Oh sweetie.......

I am sorry.....I had no idea you didn't know.....

I thought you might be kidding...but I wasn't sure...

So I hope I didn't unload it harshly on you......


:hug:

[ProfessorGAC]

79. Checking In

Been here for a long time. Don't remember the exact time, but it was the week after Skinner appeared on a phone interview on a Saturday Washington Journal (CSPAN).

Had to be early 2001.
The Professor

[indigo32]

82. I joined a couple weeks before the 2002 elections

a LOT of changes since then.

[LSK]

85. celebrated my 2 years recently

I showed up just in time for primary season ;)

[khashka]

86. Been here since 2002

and still kickin'.

For the first few years I didn't post much, except when people pissed me off. Now I post all the bloody time.

Khash.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

90. And a very good thing it is too......

I LOVE your posts and threads, my dear Khash......


:loveya: :hug:

[Coventina]

88. My id#: 13827. Registered in 2002, but lurked from almost day 1

I finally joined because I fell in love with Kef.

:cry:

I still miss him......

[hunter]

103. Kef kept me out of some trouble.

He also kept LBN reliable.

I first posted in February, 2002.

Hmmm, so my number is 9742? Oooooh, under five digits...

I've been reading here regularly since at least 9/11, but I first bookmarked this place after the rolling blackouts in California because I knew they were faked and I wanted to see what other people were saying. (Arnold Schwarzenegger is fake too.)

Misunderestimator once gave me some bees for my head.

[DinahMoeHum]

91. March 2002 - registered the day after John Asscroft (remember him?)

polluted our ears with "Let The Eagle Soar".

I had been lurking for a few weeks before, but after that post around March 4, 2002, I decided I waswn't going miss out on the fun anymore.


:evilgrin:

[Mr. McD]

92. I found DU late 2001, started posting 2002

I spend way to much time here.

[Tikki]

93. Here since 2002....

#14271....

I am fortunate to be a DUer....I am among brilliance, I may say.



Tikki

[Arkana]

94. Been around since April 2004, don't know what that qualifies me as.

[billyskank]

97. That makes you a middle-aged DUer

In the prime of your life! :bounce:

[Wapsie B]

95. I've been here since '01.

Member #3705. I was searching for a Democratic message board on Google and liked what I saw here even then. I love reading about politics and current events and this has that. It was quite a while before I found the Lounge but even longer before I started posting and conversing with others with any regularity at all. But that's me. I don't throw myself at people or warm up to them unless I've been around them awhile.

[UrbScotty]

96. August 13, 2002 (nt)

[trackfan]

98. I'm #8309

I actually started reading the site by mid 2001, but didn't register till early 2002

[no name no slogan]

99. Survived a year of GD exclusively before heading Lounge-ward

Been here since Sept 2003, and spent most of my first year wearing asbestos underwear for being an "unrealistic" Kucinich supporter.

Dunno if that makes me an old-timer or not, since there are many that have been here since the very beginning.

[Kathleen04]

100. Joined 10/26/03--2 years ago tomorrow!

Not a super old-timer, but I did brave the Primary-wars in GD '04. :)

[Flaxbee]

102. I'm # 8367 (been here since early 2002), only have 2577 posts, tho!

I guess I'm shy. Or quiet. Or both. Been here awhile, though, reading mostly. And 98% of the time I'm in the Lounge....

[ulysses]

104. 7/9/01

First conversation was with Crew and geniph. Of course it was a progressive/centrist rant.

:hi: Will.

[ulysses]

114. oh, #4042

[Crewleader]

105. Hello William, I'm a old timer checking in

and...thanks for the compliment. :-) Signed on~ Jan.2001

Hi Everyone, :hi:

I just got power back a few minutes ago and thanks for the e-mails.

Wilma was tougher then Charlie, Frances and Jeanne all put together, the winds were so strong here before she reached Florida. Brevard County got the strong winds from her northern bands that only strengthen has she moved across, you were right Mary it kicked our butts! We had three tornadoes not too far from us, we were lucky there. The rain amounts flooded alot of the area, again we were fortunate to be on higher level. I lost alot more shingles but this old roof made it through but my maple tree out back and some tropical plants did not. It could of been alot worse, we're OK!

Again we lucked out it wasn't the big Maple out front that needs to come down but one of the Maples that lost branches with the previous three hurricanes. It really got slammed by Wilma, she split her in half all the way down to the ground.


Let's hope Hurricane Wilma stays out to sea but I hear she's merging with that other storm and heading towards the north, my New England Friends and Family, be careful and stay safe, she's the worse. Has fast as Wilma was moving through Florida she gave us her strong winds and all the heavy rain constantly. And with all that activity, wind and rain for many hours before Wilma's landing made it difficult for alot of people flooding their homes and in some cases losing them entirely with the tornadoes.
This county also felt her last presence on her way out and I was glad to see Wilma GO!

Good-Riddance Wilma!

And I welcomed the cool dry air we feel now to clean up the mess!
Got to go, there's alot to do!

Hugs Friends!:grouphug:

Love, Crewleader/ Toni Marie

[Shakespeare]

106. And the secret underground underground, and lonster....

And that old guy who claimed to be sent from FR to keep an eye on "the 12 of you."

oy....lonster....he's what lured me out of lurk mode into full-on attack mode in February '01.

Would that I could buy all of the old timers a drink or three when the indictments come down; we've waited a LONG time. A long, long time.

And after I finish celebrating, I'm gonna go weep for my country that it's come to this in order to bring these assholes down.

[ps1074]

107. member since 2002

ID 12699

Does it make me an old timer? :shrug:

[SOteric]

108. Been here since '02 and for a while there, I had your face.

And I still remember TexasLeo's boots.

[DS1]

111. And advice

A dude could be going to ask out a socialist beatnik and the advice would be the same

Slick your hair back, get a $100 hair cut, buy some brand new shoes and suit and tie.

Focus on the shoes.

and on, and on, on - throw money at the problem

#7439

[ulysses]

113. sometimes I miss TexasImelda.

Sometimes I don't. :D

[madinmaryland]

109. Not that old here. May 15, 2004

Member #44433

[RetroLounge]

110. DU'er 14774

I guess that qualifies...

RL

[Mutley]

115. Not that old. I've been here about a year. Does that count?

[billyskank]

121. I wouldn't say you were an old timer

Just not a newbie any more. :pals:

[Mutley]

134. Well, hey! At least I'm not a newbie anymore.

:woohoo:

:D

:pals:

[NYYFan]

116. Hey Will, remember me?

Still waiting for you to come back to Greensboro, NC !! :hi:

It's been so long, I don't even remember now. I think it was fall of 2002.

[SoCalDem]

117. June 01 for me

:)

[InvisibleTouch]

118. Sort-of an old-timer here.

At least, I was around a lot last year through the primaries, the election, and its horrible aftermath. More reading than posting, but I was a pretty intense addict - it wasn't uncommon for me to loiter around in the Lounge all night and then greet the sunrise. Lack of time, an aggravatingly slow connection, burn-out from the emotional roller-coaster invariably engendered by DU, and a new baby dog all finally conspired to keep me absent for many months.

Today was the first day I've been tempted to poke my head back in, hoping for more info about Darth Cheney's fall from the pinnacle. (I'm not getting my hopes up, but it's nice to dream.) Good to see lots of names I still recognize. I'll be in and out sporadically. Trying to limit the addictive all-nighters and emotional roller-coasters. :)

[WindRavenX]

119. been here from day 1

The rest is history

[Aristus]

122. DU-er since September 20th or so, 2001.

I had been lurking for nearly five months by that point, but I count my DU-ership from the time I joined.

When I discovered DU in March or April of 2001, I was still reeling from the sElection, and was overjoyed to find people who felt the way I did.

on edit: My member number is 6536. :-)

[VelmaD]

123. Wow...I guess I never realized...

you had been around that long. Kewl. :)

BTW, I'm user number 3297. :P

P.S. Are you gonna be online tonight? I'll likely hit a big milestone later this evening...15,000 posts.

[Aristus]

124. Hi Vel!

Maybe, maybe not. Gotta study for a big exam set for tomorrow. I've already plowed through two chapters today, and have two more big ones still to go.

Still, it's good to see you, Vel! :hi::hug:

BTW, congrats on 15,000! :bounce::bounce::bounce:

[VelmaD]

128. That's it then...

get that nose to the grindstone. No more playtime. :spank:

[MrsMatt]

125. I'm guessing there are not too many old-timers

with less than 500 posts, but I've been around awhile (began lurking in fall of 2002).

My member number is 23,300

[puerco-bellies]

127. I used to be Denbot and joined up when there was 6,700 DU'ers #3021

But change isp's and could not re-registar or get my old password.

On Edit Found my old account: Member since 2001

[Lilith Velkor]

130. Lurker from the beginning

Posting for a couple-3 years.

That smarmy fuck Carlos used to be my neighbor. Remember him?

[tavalon]

131. Been here since april 2004

Should have been here much earlier for my mental health. It's weird that I never found this place given that I lived on Buzzflash. I came here because of you, Will, but I stayed because of all your friends here. I may not always agree but I can always learn something here. Even in the lounge. :)

[Ellen Forradalom]

132. I predate you.

I ran a political website, The Adam Clymer Fan Club, during and shortly after the 2000 election. While compiling a links page, I found DU and signed up. That must've been January 2001 since I closed up shop after Valentine's Day of that year.

[Bluzmann57]

133. Think I got here in '02

Maybe '03, can't really remember at this time, so I'm not really sure if that makes me an old timer or not, but I'm sort of an old timer in life. lol. I was drawn to this site by the top 10 list and delved deeper into it and said, "This is all right." Agree with some, disagree with some, but always defend one's right to say their piece.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

135. delete

dupe

[La Lioness Priyanka]

136. i think ihave been here for a while

enough to have two exes on one random internet board :P

[Loonman]

137. Since early 2001

But I took a 2 year hiatus because people here were pissing me off, and I'm no longer a star bellied sneech.

[mvd]

138. Checking in

I joined in mid to late 2001. I don't remember my first post, but I shortly encountered a Freeper, who was taken care of. DU has become my favorite website.

[proud patriot]

140. okay

I arrived at DU in April of 2001 , I don't
remember the exact date . Crew welcomed me
also . Will Pitt's "long kiss goodnight"
and SoCalDem's open letter to the world are
my early memories of DU .

I miss Kheph :-(

[Pithlet]

142. I joined September 2001

Right after 9/11, but I'd been lurking for awhile before that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

143. Been around a while, I guess *wave*

[OKNancy]

144. Don't get the big-head Will

but I kept reading stuff on other sites by this guy named William Rivers Pitt and when I saw you here, I started lurking. I joined up in the fall of 2001. Crewleader also was the first to welcome me.
Oh, and I was shocked to learn that you were the same age as my daughter.

[catzies]

145. Lurked almost from day 1. Saw "Democratic Underground" sign on CSPAN

Inauguration Day 2001. But just read & never posted. But I read everything by everyone, just soaking it all in.

What drew me out was 9/11, and learning about the BFEE & LIHOP almost right after it happened.

I was posting definitely by Christmas of '01 but don't remember my first time. ;)

I'm wasn't one of the first 5,000 but I am close, I guess: 6843.

And I learned how to find that today upthread. :thumbsup: Nice trick.

[HEyHEY]

146. Been here since April 03

[grannylib]

147. I can't remember the first time I showed up but I think it was '03?

I spend enough time here that Hubby grouses about it, so it must be too much *lol*

[philosophie_en_rose]

148. Remember when we had to walk uphill both ways to the Lounge

dagnabbit, we liked it.

I joined DU, because of idiotic attacks against one of our mediocre state Senators and because Washington voters baffled my mine on I-695.

[Hardrada]

149. I joined, your honor, to the best of my recollection, in late 2003.

The next thing I recall was the loss of the election in 2004 for which I was NOT personally responsible. I never intended to do anything wrong. I thought, at the time, that it was the right thing to do. To join DU, I mean. It was just something everyone was doing at the time. You have to understand what things were like when I joined. There had been a great depression and we though that the DU would restore our morale and put as back to work. And we had lost faith in our government. I thought that by supporting DU I was doing what i could for our homeland. If I have been personally guilty of excessive zeal in these pursuits, I ask the pardon of this court and throw myself upon your mercy and ask you to think what YOU would have done if you had been in my place. Thank you.

[Maestro]

150. Been here a year and a half I think.

Mix it up in GD quite often, thank you very much.

[bo44]

151. You gave me a credit in the book you and Col. Ritter wrote.

I found this website from Bartcop and a link to your old website in the summer of 2002.

[JVS]

152. I don't remember when I got here...but I have been referred to as,,,

an "I've been here since dinosaurs trod the earth" DUer!

[Gregorian]

153. First posted around April of 2003, but...

I was instantly banned after my first post. I think it was because I used all caps in my subject line. I wasn't flaming. I was actually being humorous. Go figure.

I eventually found my way back on. And since then, I've learned everything I know.

Thanks for putting up with me. ;)

[Awsi Dooger]

154. I wanted an odd number but I guess I timed it wrong

#15424, which equated to September 2002, as I recall.

I stumbled upon this site while researching political odds on the 2002 midterms, admittedly for wagering purposes since I'm part of a 16-man election pool every two years. There was a DU post listing supposed election odds compliments of Ron Faucheaux, who gets plenty of national press but has no clue regarding actual probability. His percentages are ridiculously low, for the most part. He'll list candidates as minor favorites when the race is so lopsided you can't find an offshore joint or bookmaker to even quote a price.

Anyway, there was a DU thread highlighting his odds. I stewed for nearly a day waiting for someone to assail the numbers as absurd, but when no one did I finally signed up and posted a reply, "Ignore those laughable odds." Two DUers welcomed and greeted me. One was Frances. The other one wrote, "Dude, I didn't even understand half of what you wrote, but post more often!" That response busted me up and I decided to stay.

[soleft]

156. I miss MaineMary and SFfreeways

See lots of other old timers here - when I see names like orangepeel68 and jitterbugperfume it makes me smile

[Zero Division]

157. I wonder how many DUers joined during major events.

Although I'm an infrequent poster with under 1000 posts, I've been lurking or occasionally posting here nearly everyday since the start of the Iraq War in March of 2003.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

159. I lurked for a long time before I started posting...

Seems to me I started lurking in 2001, and started posting in 2002.

[The Jacobin]

161. New Timer

Only heard of this place when Mike Malloy mentioned it in passing on AAR in the first few months of its existance. I've never looked back.

Oh. and Nader sucks as a politician, Nader rules as an activist, and Bella Lugosi's Dead.

[newyawker99]

163. Here since May 2001.

:hi:

[B Calm]

164. checking in

[B Calm]

183. First signed in early 2001

[purji]

165. I've been here since 2001

But I don't remember what month.
I was here on Sept.11th I do remember that.I used another screen name at first it was, Misled.
Is there a way to find out what month I joined?

[GalleryGod]

166. I've Stayed Too long at the Dance

:evilfrown:

[MikeH]

167. Checking In

I registered in April 2002, and my first post was May 1, 2002. (I was looking through the old archived posts and was able to locate my first post.)

I am #11128.

I first discovered DU in January or February 2001, right after it came online, but registered and signed up in 2002. I have now been a DUer for 3 1/2 years.

[fishwax]

168. been around since '01

don't remember my first post ... had a few posts with various screen names, but did a lot of lurking until the last year or so ... I think there are hundreds/thousands of DU'ers who rarely post, but get a great deal out of the community (and, despite their lack of traditional "contribution" add quite a bit as well) ...

[devilgrrl]

170. Lazarus turned me on to DU in late '01

Never give up - never surrender!

[Rhiannon12866]

171. I've been here since the beginning of 2003.

I'm not sure of the exact date, but I know that I was here well before Bush*'s illegal, bloody and costly war! I remember the lead-up to the war and actually felt physically ill, once they launched "shock and awe." I just didn't believe that there was any way Bush* could get away with this...:grr:

And I sure wouldn't have survived the last election, without DU!;(

But I discovered politics after 9/11 happened. I had a dentist appointment that day, and I was running late (as usual), and knew something really terrible had happened, but didn't actually see the footage of that second plane hitting, over and over and over, on CNN, until I was held hostage in my dentist's chair. I stumbled out of her office, scared witless, but determined to wake up and learn what was really going on in this country and in the world. I'd always voted, usually for Democrats, but never paid all that much attention. 9/11 taught me that complacency was no longer an option...:grr:

As for my first post, I don't remember that, either, except that I was kind of nervous, never having been on any kind of message board before. But, and I will never forget this, that one-person DU welcoming committee, newyawker99, welcomed me on my very first post. That meant so much, and I'm always reminding her how grateful I was for this. And the rest, for me, 11,000-some posts later, is history...:D

[hyphenate]

173. I think my official day was sometime in June

or July of 2001. I had been hanging out at a couple of Yahoo groups, most notorious of which was the "I Hate George Bush Fan Club" of which I guess there were numerous incarnations. I also had some other boards which were gen boards, but had political forums, so we talked some there.

I don't recall what I first posted about, as with the different boards I went to, I might have just been passing on some info from one group to the next.

The Yahoo boards were worse than this one when it came to speed of time. With only one "forum" everything was posted in the same place, and if you skipped a day, you had over 200 plus posts to catch up on. I remember 9/11 though, because some of the members were in NYC, and I recall hearing from them, and trying to see if anyone I knew had been hurt. I think we were lucky with some of the people, though.

DU is still not my only lifeline, though, and I have a lot of other places I "mind" but the old Yahoo boards were fairly fun before I discovered DU.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

174. I've only been here

since September 10th but I am an oldtimer in other ways!

My first post was something about letting the bastards hang themselves and I got slammed and called a freeper. Hazing, I guess!

Since then I post a lot but it is basically like talking to the radio. Helps me, but few answer. I still like it.

Sometimes GD gets too intense for me and I come here to hang out. I'm pretty moderate politically and so the angry young men over there can get wearing!

[Generic Other]

175. Speaking of old-timers needing to check in, where are you?

People are worried.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2206686

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5223940

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4226562

[salin]

176. started reading in late 01

started posting in Jan of 02.

Started primarily in LBN.

Back then (fewer than 10,000 posters) mile markers per posts went up every hundred. Never got a response - until 1000 - by Uly. I was thrilled that someone noticed my commentary... 'til I realized he was a lounge mod and probably just being nice. :D

First DU gathering was in the summer of 02; pulled together by our beloved and greatly missed Keph.

Was instrumental in another one when the local peace group was able to bring someone of note to speak in town (nudge, nudge the original poster of this thread) - to this day I take credit (for which I really shouldn't) for the meeting of two Duers who are now an inspirational couple for many.

But I don't mention what I have loved the most - the great analysis of news, the great minds linking together many news stories together, and a place where deep policy discussions can flourish.

[lins the liberal]

178. June 2001

My member number is 3456. I lurked for a month or two before I registered.

I remember Crewleader was the first person to welcome me.

As you can see from my low post count I still mostly lurk, but I do a lot of reading. I usually start my day with LBN.

[Fridays Child]

179. I got here around the same time. Just before or just after the voter march

in DC, in May, 2001. It's been home, ever since.

[New Earth]

180. well, not an 'old' old timer

but will be here a year this month :hi:

i found DU right after the last election when i knew it was fixed - i had visited other forums looking for people who felt the same as i did, found bbv.org forums, and they mentioned this place --- so i came over here and got addicted. my first post ever was in the first 'I Believe' thread in 2004 Election Results & Discussion, then i petitioned to start a John Kerry group, then a nice DU'er named Tom Kitten bought me a gold star out of the kindness of his heart :hi: i LOVE the sense of community here, one that i don't find on many other forums.

[REP]

181. #11002, Here Since Early 2002

Came here by way of a link to an article here. Never left, Mostly post in GD.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

182. Du #8750

I've put some miles on this place and this place has put some miles on me

[LynneSin]

184. You started around the same time I did

I know I was back sometime during the Jeffords defection. My biggest fear was the republicans would try and steal the NJ governor election somehow so they could then go after Torricelli and replace him with a repuke thus regaining the senate after the Jeffords defection.

So it's been 4 years!

[jus_the_facts]

185. first DU Lounge thread....June 3, 2002.....

:)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=10591&forum=DCForumID40&archive=yes

[lavenderdiva]

186. checking in...

user number 55460. Been here since November 2004. Thank God for DU. I would have lost my mind after the elections that year, if it hadn't been for DU and DUers!!

[sinkingfeeling]

187. Been here since 2002. Found DU after Bush's SOTU address where

he started rattling the swords at Iraq, Iran, and N. Korea. I lurked for awhile and then decided to register.

[leftofthedial]

188. I joined way early on

I originally had a different user name, which I can not remember. Spent some time in Europe working and traveling and came back in the Summer of 2001 (I think it was) as "leftofthedial."

Remember the proud 10 percenter club?

[dback]

189. I've been here since early 2001

Can't tell you how many conversations I've had with Dems, liberals, progressives, organizers, and candidates that I've started with, "Have you checked out the Underground?"

Hopefully, we've made a tiny bit of difference in America and the world.

[mwdem]

191. #10628, early 2002..

found out about this place from Mediawhores.com.

[Arugula Latte]

192. Fall of '01. I was feeling homeless on the Internet(s).

Found DU through a fluke. Hardly a day has gone by since that I haven't needed a DU "fix" at least once or twice or three or four or five or six times a day.