Who was the first DUer?

[Jara sang]

Proto-DUer. Not including admins.

[Canuckistanian]

1. The UR-DUER?

[Kire]

2. this i want to know

[Parche]

3. first Du er

aDUm and Eve

[BigBearJohn]

4. probably Skinner

[benburch]

5. That would be "Bear-Moon"

He chiseled a reindeer onto the wall of the first DU forum over 12,000 years ago.

[ReadTomPaine]

13. LOL! Proto Progressivus Liberalis? n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

24. Ah, but did his mischievous cousin make the first copycat thread on the

cave wall next to his original post?

[many a good man]

6. Some proto-hippy pinko commie

[htuttle]

7. T. Herman Zweibel

...way back in 1897.

[mr_hat]

8. It was I. No one else here claims "billions and billions posted."

[greendog]

9. kskiska

Skinner answered this question a while back.

[Kerrytravelers]

10. How about the "creator" of liberalism...

Jesus was a liberal.



Unfortunately, a lot of people don't read very carefully and have given him a really bad name.;)

[matt819]

11. DU Creation vs. Evolution

Is DU the result of intelligent design or has it been subject to that evil theory of evolution? Enquiring minds want to know.

[LynzM]

18. Both....

It was created, but it has also evolved since it was created, so.... erm.... yes?

[LoZoccolo]

12. wndycty was on here on day one.

I don't think he's #1, but he may know more about who is.

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. I was in the first 10,000! Give or take 100.

[Jara sang]

17. I'm in the second 50,000th n/t

[Cocoa]

15. PrimordialSoup

[OffWithTheirHeads]

16. I think I was in the first several hundred

But there is no way to tell. Sort of like some religious texts I am familiar with.

[hippiechick]

19. If you click on someone's profile...

... and read the URL in the address bar on your screen, at the end there will be an 'ID=' ... ignore the '1' and you'll have the # that person was when they signed up.

I'm four-thousand-something (March 2001).

[Pendrench]

20. That's very interesting...

I just checked my own number, and it looks like I'm #8,023 (or something like that).

Tim

[AlienGirl]

21. I'm #3344.

[Pendrench]

22. My mistake....I'm #8283. n/t

[uppityperson]

25. Well, that is interesting

53488, cool

[MisterP]

23. first at #2 is abn82 (tombstoned): ElementaryPenguin is #13, the first

current DUer to have more than 1 post.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

26. ***Answer here****

kskiska
See post #13

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3408598