In what year did you join DU?

[UrbScotty]

Poll question: In what year did you join DU?

Don't tell me you just joined in 2005 ;-)

...unless you can prove it. :shrug:

[flvegan]

1. 2004...still a newbie.

Ask again in 2006 and 2008...

[NYC]

10. Not anymore.

In 2004, you were a newbie. In 2005, you're an oldbie.

[Erika]

2. I joined in 2001

Erika

[Undercover Owl]

51. 2005

is there a certain prize for being a New Years Day newbie?

Never mind I don't qualify anyway......crap

[TrustingDog]

3. ahaha, first vote for 2003....

is that good or bad?
don't play with me here.

[Berserker]

4. In my mind

I have been here for many years. But found it in 2004

[Merlot]

5. Started posting in 2004

Been reading since the begining of time.

[Gemini Cat]

6. Discovered DU in '02 and signed up in '03. eom

[qnr]

7. 2002 -- never posted until about Oct of 2004 though n/t

[LeighAnn]

8. 2001 and I'm still in the 700 Club!

Something's wrong with this picture

[Tweed]

55. Very true, I signed up in 2004 and I've doubled your post total n/t

[dolo amber]

9. I joined in 2002....posted sporadically

lurked voraciously...then they changed software for the new improved "DU II" and I lost my original username (which was dariastwin :D) and had to start all over...*sigh*...oh well, it was more than worth it. :)

[Baja Margie]

11. Late Bloomer

I was fighting with the rednecks down here and was banned.

[Elidor]

12. I've been hanging out here for three years.

DU has gone through a lot in that time. "So many people have come and gone…"

If I've learned anything in all that time, it's that one should avoid flamebait at all costs. Not that I take my own advice, you understand, but I would, if I had any sense.

[WMliberal]

13. 2002. I lurked. 2003. I donated. 2004. I posted.

2005. I moderated? no way!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd soooooooooooooooooooo let EVERY sex thread go over 100 posts.

[CO Liberal]

14. September 9, 2001

I saved the E-mail that notified me that my account had been established. I've been possting almost every day ever since. last night, I posted my 27,000th message.

[New Earth]

18. ^POST WHORE n/t

[VolcanoJen]

21. Shaddup already!

:D

2001 here... Inauguration Day, 2001, when I first saw the glorious "DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM" banner and logged right on.

I found my people! Happy New Year, DUers!!!

[Art_from_Ark]

30. Wow! You beat me by 5 days

I was directed to DU by a link at gwbush.com. My first attempt at a post came three months later.

[11 Bravo]

35. Same here!

I was looking for bumper stickers at gwbush.com, and found a link to DU. That was in 2002 and I've been here ever since.

[UrbScotty]

40. Slow down! I'm 18,500 posts behind you!

:-)

[BrewerJohn]

15. 2003, still a newbie in post count

But I spend a good chunk of every day reading here nonetheless.

[steely]

16. I explored the shit out of this place in 2003 to see if it was for real.

found it by accident from drudge reTort. I took the plunge in '04.

[New Earth]

17. i'm still a newbie :(

:( :hi:

[UrbScotty]

46. Turn that frown upside down!

Newbies are as imoportant to DU as 'old-timers.'

[outraged2]

19. newbie here

I originally signed up in 2003, but I had to sign up again recently- Nov.

[Wat_Tyler]

20. Oct 2003.

Coupla name changes since then.

[Piperay]

22. 2001 ...

about March but I didn't post for a couple of months because the DU was over-run with freeper types. :puke:

[Robeson]

23. Honestly can't remember the first time....

...I lost everything when I switched computers and ISP. But it was some time ago.

[Allenberg]

24. Lurked through 03, just recently signed up and started posting.

[Dzimbowicz]

25. August 2004, I'm still a newbie

Happy New Year everyone!

:party:

[Ladyhawk]

26. 2003 n/t

[Lost4words]

27. pretty sure it was 2001 for me.

:hi:

[timtom]

28. I joined in 2002

but under a different name. Due to a mistaken identity, I got banned and came back as nathan hale. The administrator discovered the error and restored both accounts.

[wellstone dem]

29. In 2002

Right after Paul Wellstone died.

[Dees]

31. 03/01.....nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. October 8, 2001.

I had lurked since the previous February, but didn't join until months later.

[Lady Effingbroke]

33. 2004 - still a newbie (sort of).

I found DU through a link at "Hated" and lurked for several months before registering. :hi:

[CRK7376]

34. I joined in 2001, about April I believe.

I look at DU daily, but post seldom. Love the place though....

[SarahB]

36. November 2002.

[Catchawave]

37. Reading since 02, joined 04 n/t

[rppper]

38. 2001.....i'm an old school DU'er.....

i remember seeing the banner on tv during the shrubs first inauguration. been here ever since.

[supernova]

39. March of 2002 I believe

I was looking for dem resources on the web because for the first time in a long time I was interested in politics again.

And I eventually found my way here. And I haven't left. It's the most fun, most informative Dem place on the Web. :toast: :bounce:

[purji]

41. August 2001 nt

nt

[buddhamama]

42. May 2001

i had been lurking since finding DU in Feb of 2001 and finally decided to 'speak'.

[ldf]

43. 2001

and my life has been so much richer, for it.

thanks, admins and fellow du'ers. you are my family.

:hug:

[catbert836]

44. Early August 2004

n/t

[chefgirl]

45. January 20, 2001

The darkest political day in my memory, until I saw the big banner for 'DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM' waving above the crowd of protesters.

I logged in and registered immediately, and have been here just about every day (at least reading, if not posting) since.

I don't even have the words to describe how much better I felt just knowing there were lots of other people out there who recognized a coup when they saw it. Until then, I really thought I was hallucinating or something. Oh, how I wish I had been.

-chef-

[graywarrior]

47. Sometime in 2002. I came over from Michael Moores forum

[miss_kitty]

48. Hey you left out

2005...I saw a guy around her somewhere with two posts-joined today! I swear!

[bobthedrummer]

49. 2001 n/t

:hi:

[0007]

50. Many still here from 01 - Congratulations

[Acryliccalico]

52. I joined in

2004 I was reading posts before that though because I joined CGCS first and they refered a lot to DU. I think DUers always get the news first. I like it better here too, although I still go to CGCS and check out whats going on.

[billyskank]

53. 2002

but I'd been luuuuuuurrrrking for a long time before that.

[WindRavenX]

54. 2001

One of the first posters, though not the most prolific. :hi:

[Seabiscuit]

56. The Howard Dean blog led me here in early 2003.

But I didn't begin posting until last May or so. I just used to enjoy reading everything for over a year.

[newyawker99]

57. 2001 n/t