Who Was The First DU Member? What Was The First Ever Post?

[Yavin4]

Does anyone know? Not counting the mods.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Midlo

of course.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. Nope. I'm just the best poster, not the first.

[jobycom]

2. Video Killed the Radio Star, by the Buggles.

I think that's it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Dammit Jobycom, that was going to be my joke!

Curses!

[jobycom]

15. Hehe! Hey, you've done that to me, too!

[Richard Steele]

3. "Name Removed".

[petronius]

4. I don't know about the first post, but I'm pretty sure the first response was

"you're an ignorant douchebag! Go back the freeperville, you low-post-count troll!"

[Lil Missy]

5. I saw a story about the first week of DU, but damned if I could find it now.

It was funny as hell, and there was an intern involved.

I suspect he wrote the first post. He was fired after one week, LOL!

[Crabby Appleton]

6. here ya go

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/01/010...

[Lil Missy]

7. That's the one!

[Danger Mouse]

9. 'Nice fucking discussion board.'

[Yavin4]

16. They Should Put That Quote On A T-Shirt

And sell it.

[Dystopian]

12. Thank you!

That was awesome! How funny...that intern!!
Great history lesson..

peace~

[conscious evolution]

8. ROFLMAO!!

'Number of messages on our board that included the words "Hitlery": at least 8'

[Jamastiene]

10. My favorite part:

"The righties screamed bloody murder on the message boards, claiming that their "rights" were being infringed. As if. Basically, all we were asking them to do was leave a fake name and fake email address before they burned our house down."



From what I've read so far, I want that intern to visit me IRL. He sounds like a lot of fun, my kind of person.

EarlG rocks.

[Jamastiene]

11. guest

From what someone said a while ago, our number is the number in our profile minus 100,000

So, going by that, this was the first DU member:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

But...

If you go back to 99999, root is the username:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

I wonder who root is. Their homepage is Democratic Underground.

[UTUSN]

14. P. 6 of SKINNER's piece (above) lists the first friendlies:

"mw, kali, Treehugger, 4peace, moosedog, mountain girl, JarJar, whyzayker, bill1x1, and others"