Can I Get An Ol' Timer Roll Call? (if you've been here since 2001/2002 chime in)

[THUNDER HANDS]

I was just checking, I've been here since 2002. I'm not sure when in 2002. But I was here, and I'm still here.

Who else from 2001/2002 - or DU Generation One - is still with us?

Say hi.

[supernova]

1. I'm here

Spring of 2002 but I was reading DU in the fall of 2001.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Late 2002, I think...

Back when I was 'toolfan'

[GOPisEvil]

3. I've been here since...um...spring 2002 I think.

[matcom]

4. you've been my bitch for longer

[GOPisEvil]

9. ...

[TrogL]

5. 2001

[KamaAina]

6. Delurked right after 9/11

Hey n00b! Get off my lawn!

[hellbound-liberal]

7. 2001, June or July I think.

I still feel like a lurker though. I don't post as much as I used to.

[Madrone]

8. Hi!

[GOPisEvil]

12. Yeah, but you had a different name back then.

[matcom]

14. OMFG!!

you are dating CARLOS??!1

[GOPisEvil]

16. It's the blue-gray eyes.

*swoon*

[matcom]

17. wait

"The Princess" had those eyes!1



exactly what ARE your feelings for Kirsty Alley?

hhmmmmm???

[GOPisEvil]

18. Don't ask about my feelings for Cuban....

...sandwiches...

[Madrone]

21. Whatever. You're just mad because i've been here longer than you.

January 20, 2001, BABY. Of course, back then you didn't have to register.

Man, a lot of things have changes since Skinner and Elad (and whomever else they commissioned to help out) stood outside in the cold (in a first amendment zone) holding high a DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM banner - while the chimp refused to exit his vehicle and took his place on the "throne" like the coward he is.



I hate that fucker, even if he DID bring me DU.

[matcom]

24. he brought us ALL to DU

and WE will still be here when his flacid body is rotting in the ground my friend.

bank that.

[Tyler Durden]

68. 2001: a Chimp Odd-issey.

I can't even BELIEVE that guy made it the first time.

Life sometimes really sucks the big skippy.

[RainDog]

10. 2002

I found DU from a link from following a Salon.com article that went to a blog and DU was there. I think. I was soooo pissed off after 2000, I had to find a place to vent that total disbelieving pissed-offedness. I was also active in that time until the beginning of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. I left after 2003 cause I needed a break from all the aggravation because things went from back to worse in this nation. Then, for some strange reason, I thought, hey, I'll go by and see what's up at DU and find out that kephra just died. went to his funeral and then was really busy and then one day I thought... hey, I'll go by and see what's up at DU....

what a long, strange trip it's been living in the Bush age.

[Solon]

11. Been here since spring of 2001...

Old as you can get, practically.

[Raven]

13. Seems like I've been here forever! 2001, I think...is that possible???

[foreigncorrespondent]

15. Never been a lounge lizard...

...but this old timer is still here, albeit on and off, but still around.

[RetroLounge]

19. I'm still here!

RL

[CreekDog]

20. Meh. I was here well before General Discussion Politics was invented

There was just "General Discussion" period, but as things got heated in the leadup to 2004, a way to separate the nice people from the haterz (politicos you could say) needed to be found. GD-P was the result.

I forget how I found out about this place, I think it was a Dailykos post that led me to it.

Also, I started reading Talkingpointsmemo during the post 2000 election debacle. I think I found that by reading Kausfiles.

Observation: As an avid news/political junkie, 5 years ago, I read Wash Post, NY Times, Kausfiles, New Republic and Howie Kurtz because that was much of what was widely available out there. I don't know when I realized that Kaus was just flat wrong about his media observations, but it got annoying and then, the blogs and DU came along.

I would say I get most of my news from DU, blogs and wire coverage and more indepth stories from Wash Post, NY Times and actually, blog comments and DU comments that have backstory that doesn't get picked up anywhere else. And I'm better informed for it.

And though I read some news from NYTimes and Wash Post, it's probably limited to one article or column per week from each. And that hasn't hurt me a bit. Their reliance on the "he said"/"she said" coverage without the attendant, but he is a big liar coverage made the news hard to comprehend or sort out.

But the blogs do and despite getting news from them, I don't find myself in agreement with them in all things, so I must be doing some of my own thinking.

The MSM is still not getting the utility of the blogsphere.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Late February 2001, I think

I am very ancient and venerable.

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. I joined on 10/8/01

And had lurked virtually since the beginning.

[Orangepeel]

25. March 2001 (and I STILL have less than 10,000 posts!)

you'd think I'd be more prolific as long and as often as I'm here!

[yewberry]

26. Feb of 02, I think.

I sort of remember signing up with a different name (my actual name) before that, but there was an iCatastrophe℠ of some kind.

[Bunny]

27. From the beginning in 2001, although I don't think I began posting

a lot until much later.

[femmocrat]

28. I was, but I forgot my name and password, so had to rejoin.

Oh well....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. Who did you used to be?

[femmocrat]

77. Oh, I forget. You did say "old-timer" ... didn't you?

I didn't post back then. I only started posting a few years ago in the PA Forum. After I got creamed in GD, I eventually found my way to the Lounge via the Morning Crew.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Feb. of 2001 here.

[Missy Vixen]

30. I'm here, and have been since 2001 n/t

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

31. Been here since 2001.

Seven years and I only recently hit 10,000 posts- not exactly prolific, but sometimes intense.

[DontBlameMe]

66. So far you're the only on this list...

whose been here longer than me. We must have joined the same week. I think I was the 700th or so member.

on edit: make that 702nd

[haele]

32. Yo - since Aug of 2001 -

In fact, Laz (Lazarus, former moderator and still occasional lurker) and I were the first ones to do an internet wedding where DU was invited back in 2002.

Haele

[Steven_S]

34. Oct 2001.....

under a different name. I read a lot more than I post.

[last_texas_dem]

50. I signed up in October '01, too

I think I had been reading the "Top 10 Conservative Idiots" column on here for a couple of months before that (discovered via the "Bartcop" site), and finally decided to sign up on the discussion board here. I've never exactly been a regular poster on here, but I lurk pretty often.

[leeroysphitz]

35. I've been lurking since 1978 and started posting in '85.

If you think this primary season is bad you should have seen '88...

[Capn Sunshine]

37. I remember..Muskie was called "INvincible" by the press

[leeroysphitz]

41. Oh yes. The heady days of the "Sunshine Special"

Boy the internets were WAY slower back then...

[Flaxbee]

36. Since 2002, I think early-ish in the year, but I don't really recall

I don't even have 5000 posts, though! I check in pretty much every day, usually in the Lounge.

[ThomCat]

38. Me. But I was here as

TKulesa for the first while. I was boring when I first signed up.

[Aristus]

39. September, 2001.

I registered just a few days after the 11th, as a matter of fact.

I had been lurking since March or April, though.

[Capn Sunshine]

40. oh, present

I remember your old sig line with the big blue rat.

I was here in '01 but under a different screen name which was too ambiguous so I changed with the changeover

[alcibiades_mystery]

42. I was here pre-9/11

under various names and lurking.

[graywarrior]

43. 2002 for me.

[billyskank]

58. How did we go so long before we got to know each other?

And now I love you so much.

[graywarrior]

75. I have no idea!

Maybe because I am so self absorbed?

[baldguy]

44. Here

[greendog]

45. Late 2001.

[Nicole]

46. Here

[hunter]

47. Wow, I'm and oldtimer now?

I still feel like a new guy.

[UrbScotty]

48. August 13, 2002

Somehow my profile says 2001, but yeah, it was shortly before the 2002 election.

[ashling]

49. I'm still here

class of 2001

[MagsDem]

51. Yeah, but under another name

Don't make me tell you. I was totally cool, just not much of a Kerry fan when 04 came around, (Yeah, i voted for the dude, but it was HARD) so I took a dive and just came back to posting lately, though I have always really been here. Who says it's hard to stop posting at DU? Never was a lounge lizard back then. That might have been my problem. They can be soooooooo friggin mean in GD and GDP if you don't salute whatever they are running up the flag pole (even when they are running up tighty whiteys with poo streaks - LOL).

[regnaD kciN]

52. Still here...

...although I changed my login name during the post-2004 "grace period."

I may have even been at DU on its first day of operation. (I was referred over here by BartCop.com.)

[laylah]

53. ...

early '01 I believe.

[Bongo Prophet]

54. Another 2001 refugee from salon - reincarnated in 2004, which killed me.

Took awhile before I signed up to post, once salon started charging.

I was Calico Janitor at that time.
Hard times, lost my dad and dog and calico kitty, (for whom I was a grateful janitor)... and then the election... boy was I depressed...I decided to reincarnate in the 04 "grace" period.
A reboot.


I am not sure whether this place keeps me sane or just crazy enough not to give up.

[alphafemale]

55. Presente!

Yeah, I'm still here.

And what a grand, strange ride it's been.

[billyskank]

56. Somewhere around spring 2002 I think.

It took me years to make my first 1,000 posts. Then I discovered the Lounge.

[Deja Q]

57. with luck, I ain't ready for the home just yet, you young whipper snapping hooligan you...

[trof]

59. Class of '02.

[janx]

60. Yeah, still here.

Like others, I had a different name initially.

[PVnRT]

61. Get off my lawn

[KG]

62. Nov 2001. now, where the hell is my walker?

i gotta go pee!

oh, wait, i'm wearing depends

ahhhhh.

[Phillycat]

63. 2001, sometime before 9/11, I don't remember exactly.

I had a different name then.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

64. I've been here since around mid-2002, I think

I remember the first year I was on DU -some of the most fun memories I have of my time on the Internet. I miss a lot of the people who were around then -it was such a great time to be on here and they helped me through some really difficult times politically and personally

[catmandu57]

65. October 2001

Gawd I'm tired.

[bikebloke]

67. Aye!

I was a reader pretty much from the beginning. After about six months, I finally signed up. I'm such an infrequent poster that dinosaurs went extinct before I reached a thousand posts.

[mwdem]

69. Early 2002.

Got the site from mediawhores.com.

[Robb]

70. Yo

I like to think of it as the Beta version of DU. Back before we had all the bugs worked out.

[leftofthedial]

71. yo

hi

[Tikki]

72. We've been here....

since sometime in 2002.


The Tikkis

[Lex]

73. 2001

Can't really remember what month, but I think it wasn't too long after Bush's inauguration. Seems like I read Bartcop for the months leading up to the 2000 election and found DU through it.

It was so depressing in the months after Bush was sworn in. DU and Bartcop were 2 places of refuge for me online. I can't remember when I checked Bartcop's page last, though.

[SarahB]

74. I originally joined in Fall 2002.

I changed my name in early 2004, but yeah, it's been awhile.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

76. present from 2001....spring or early summer..was a lurker before then

[HamstersFromHell]

78. I.m Here and off and on since 2002 sometime.

n/t

[qnr]

79. mumble n/t

[TheMightyFavog]

80. I think I signed up shortly after the 2002 elections.

It had to have been sometime around about then.

IIRC, I joined after learning of the idiots list from Fark.

[MrsMatt]

81. joined in December 2002

after Wellstone's death, although my profile just says prior to July 2003 (I think they lost some data at one point in time)

I read much, post little - usually too busy with family stuff.

[MrScorpio]

82. 2002er

Over five years of ME!

[SOteric]

83. I signed on December 12, 2001.

Didn't really get to posting much until a few months later.

[opiate69]

84. Late 2002, I think..

possibly early 2003 though.

[yorgatron]

85. since about 10 minutes after prisoner-number-six

it was within a few days of *'s inauguration.

[derby378]

86. Well, howdy-ho!

Another old-timer here - been here since late 2002. And thank you, Howard Dean, for turning me into a full-fledged Dem.

[puerco-bellies]

87. 2001 Posting as Denbot

Move, ISP change, blah blah. I then had to re-register as P-b

[mike_c]

88. early 2002-- don't recall when I stopped lurking and began posting....

Feb 2002 maybe?

[rocktivity]

89. Joined within a month of 9/11

after concluding that all the hyper patriotism going on was bullshit. I searched the web looking for like-minded sentiments, and found Michael Moore's site, which led me to Democrats.com. When I tried to find Democrats.com again, I ended up here.


rocknation

[Wapsie B]

90. 2001 here.

Don't remember the month or even time of year, but it might've been in the spring.

[RushIsRot]

91. I'm reasonably certain I signed on during those dates, but I couldn't

pinpoint exactly when.

[Robeson]

92. I was here under a different name.....

...I lost all my info on my old computer, and really don't remember what it was. Everyone here seemed so far to the right of me at the time, I didn't think I'd come back. But eventually, I did....

[davsand]

93. I got here in 2001.

Salon went pay to post and I'd been hanging for a short time at a place called Bare Knuckles Politics. There was some link to DU that turned up one day and I came over here and poked around for a bit--then I registered.

I think Ulysses got here right about the same time I did and Kephra came soon after. There was still an Underground and there was NO such thing as a "Lounge" or even GD.

My one claim to fame is that the first EVER DU gathering was held at my house. Elad was supposed to come but had to cancel. Kephra was here and so was 5thGenDemocrat.



Laura

[ulysses]

100. indeed I did.

, Laura!

[Pendrench]

94. I don't post all that much, but I've been here since 2002. n/t

[Rowdyboy]

95. Summer of 2002......

[BlueCollar]

96. Hi...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

97. 2001 here...

Started lurking in July, as I recall...

[Karenina]

102. Lately it's occured to meeeee.....

what a l-o-o-o-ng strange trip it's been
I:dedadada,,dedadada,,:I

[GoddessOfGuinness]

105. It was such a relief to me...

to find a place where others were as steamed as I was about the 2000 selection. I couldn't believe...and STILL can't believe...how many people simply accepted the fact that a coup had taken place. I can't imagine anything more UN-American than allowing someone to screw us over.

[Karenina]

109. My relief has long since

turned to depression... Let's play some Telemann duets. Those always cheer me up!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

115. Works for me!

[Karenina]

116. Happy Holidays, dear one!!!

[MikeH]

98. I started posting in May 2002

I first discovered Democratic Underground, if I remember correctly, right after it first came online in January 2001. I don't recall how I specifically found DU; I remember discovering a number of Democratic/liberal/progressive web sites right at that time, and DU was one of them (along with www.democrats.com as I remember, and along with some sites that are now defunct, including mediawhoresonline).

I enjoyed reading the articles and some of the posts for over a year, and finally registered in April 2002. My first post was May 1, 2002 (I have been able to locate it in the archives), and I have been posting ever since (even if not as frequently as other DUers).

[electricmonk]

99. Jan 2002

Started reading it around Oct. 2001. Found the site thanks to a Top 10 Conservative Idiots link somewhere, maybe Buzzflash. I don't even have 2002 posts yet to match my join date, pretty sad. More of a reader than a talker I guess.

[prolesunited]

101. Late summer 2001

and became seriously addicted after 9/11.

I don't care what anyone says. It's not the same place it once was and I spend less and less time here with each passing day.

But, DU always will get the credit for changing my life in so many ways.

[Shakespeare]

103. Found DU on inaguration day, signed up soon after (as Not_over_it)

Time flies, doesn't it?

[Spirochete]

104. First part of 2001

and still only about 3000 posts. Yeah, I'm a slacker.

[GirlinContempt]

106. I joined in I think early 2002

but then stopped coming for a while and re-signed up as moi in 03

[Kool Kitty]

107. I'm still here.

Since early 2001.

[fishwax]

108. 2001

[Greyskye]

110. killing threads since 2001

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

111. Not sure but I know

the number of registered DU'ers was like 13,000 when I logged in. I think it was in 2002.

[ChickMagic]

112. Hello

I've been here since 2002.

[Bucky]

113. My profile says 2002, but I'm certain I signed up earlier. I remember 9/11 here.

I remember how Rudy saved all of us.

[BurtWorm]

114. I was here for the last part of DU version 1.0.

2.0 started in July 2003. I stopped by DU regularly since early 2001, and I wrote an article for the front page in September 2001, but I wasn't actively posting till about April 2003.

[Beausoir]

117. 2002. And only 4500 posts.

[Z_I_Peevey]

118. Since 2001.

This is my second username. Another Salon/TAP refugee.

Hi Agent Mike! I'm still in the Grassy Knoll Society too.

[trackfan]

119. Since early 2002 I think

[denverbill]

120. Still hanging on. Since 2001. nt

[NashVegas]

121. Here

May 2001, give or take.

[HERVEPA]

122. Sometime in 2002 (I'm not a prodigious poster)

[LynneSin]

123. May of 2001

I'm a really really old-timer

[annonymous]

124. Early 2002 for me

I lurk more than I post and sometimes tke long breaks from DU. I have yet to break 1000 posts. The Top 10 Idiots was my first introduction to DU. Buzzflash posted the link.

[Blue_Tires]

125. i'm the generation after

found DU after the '02 election, started posting in early '03