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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsToday is my twenty-second anniversary of membership at DU.
I started lurking in March or April of 2001, and joined a month after 9/11. I would have gone crazy in a world that had also seemingly gone crazy, if I hadn't had all of you.
I love you all, and no doubt, always will.
Wounded Bear
(59,038 posts)tblue37
(65,765 posts)yankee87
(2,216 posts)Stay with it, my fellow traveler.
2naSalit
(87,741 posts)I hit 80K posts today! Twenty two years is a bit of time, I think I'm on year eleven.
debm55
(26,150 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,866 posts)I think I joined in November 2002.
berniesandersmittens
(11,357 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,863 posts)I started lurking in February of 2001, found it while searching for Dubya jokes. Celebrated my 22nd anniversary a couple of weeks ago.
Aristus
(66,820 posts)It's interesting that so many of the websites at the time that linked to DU no longer exist.
calimary
(81,975 posts)listed in a site called Resident Bush that was cross-promoted along the left margin with other good, relevant, and recommended sites. Fell in head-first and Im still here, lo these many years later!
liberalla
(9,362 posts)I know what you mean... this place has been a sanity-saver for me!
niyad
(114,907 posts)and so many entertaining posts. Celebration in the Lounge this Friday?
highplainsdem
(49,401 posts)elleng
(132,188 posts)BumRushDaShow
(131,746 posts)sellitman
(11,620 posts)Yikes!!!
sinkingfeeling
(51,671 posts)chillfactor
(7,606 posts)MiHale
(9,931 posts)Congratulations!
calimary
(81,975 posts)I just celebrated mine on October 7th. Im 22 also!
Gonna have to feel my way along in the new DU, but if I figured things out with the old version, Im hopeful Ill do so on the new version before too long.
Just gonna take some getting-used-to.
Igel
(35,516 posts)My 19th was almost a week ago.
LetMyPeopleVote
(147,275 posts)True Dough
(17,546 posts)They should have an Aristus mode that comes with a whiskey tumbler emoji.
ancianita
(36,511 posts)Please keep posting.
We'll need your thoughts to help us through the bumpy ride the world's about to give us.
dchill
(38,731 posts)Happy Anniversary!
geardaddy
(24,989 posts)slightlv
(3,111 posts)I "joined" as a lurker in 2000. Kept coming back. Took me a while to do an actual registration, and then lost it all somehow. So, I ended up re-registering. This place is so worth it. Like you, I'd have lost my mind through these years without DU!
cilla4progress
(24,946 posts)a better place!
GP6971
(31,398 posts)onecaliberal
(33,381 posts)livetohike
(22,227 posts)quotes Aristus 🙂. Ive only been here since March 2004, but those early years on DU were classic .
Diamond_Dog
(32,536 posts)Youre one of my favorites here. Always look forward to your comments and humor.
Karadeniz
(22,824 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)PJMcK
(22,166 posts)Congratulations! Keep it up.
Emile
(24,208 posts)electric_blue68
(15,377 posts)I saw DU ?'02 at a Net Cafe. Without a more steady access to the Net I didn't follow it.
But in '20 I needed to talk about something (political) and my music site w a side political forum wasn't cutting it, and I remembered the name. Looked for it right up.
I was really wasn't expecting it to still be around. Was delighted to see it was. 👍
KS Toronado
(17,843 posts)CatWoman
(79,310 posts)Permanut
(5,867 posts)You have singlehandedly raised the level of discussion here. Glad you're here.