What year did you join DU ?

[Catchawave]

Poll question: What year did you join DU ?

Bonus points, kick with your member number, I'll kick start with mine :D

[last_texas_dem]

1. '01!

Makes me feel kinda old...

[Catchawave]

3. I bow to you, one of the holy order of DU's birth year !

What's your member # ?

[last_texas_dem]

8. I've forgotten how to check that

How do you find that out? (I feel dumb, 'cause I used to know how to find that out at one point.) I know I joined in October or November of '01 so I'm not one of the earliest members to register but still pretty old. :-)

[Catchawave]

12. If I'm right, clicked on your profile....

Looks like you're #6468 ? Which is the end of you http thingy on the address line, which is 106468. I joined 3 years later, and I'm 150285, or #50285.

Hope that made sense, I'm so tech-speak challenged :hi:

[last_texas_dem]

14. Cool... thanks for the info

Your explanation makes perfect sense to this other tech-speak challenged person! :-)

[Radio_Lady]

27. Last_Texas_Dem, I salute you! Finding this port in one of the stormiest

years in history! Since the month is not recorded, do you happen to remember just WHEN in 2001?

I was working with another web site called www.race2004.net

After the 2004 Election, the guy running it just abandoned it completely. Oh, maybe he started www.race2008.net but that didn't go anywhere.

Don't expect these links to work at all.

[Catchawave]

32. I came from

www.jregrassroots.org, which was organized after John Edwards withdrew from the '04 primaries :cry:

I tried your link and got this message:

R.I.P. Race2008.net :(


I believe.....:hug:

[Radio_Lady]

38. I think I have that fellow's telephone number. He was in Pennsylvania,

I think. Wonder what he's up to now.

[last_texas_dem]

37. Hi Radio Lady!

I found DU not too long after September 11, 2001, actually. Shrub's 90-percent approval ratings in the weeks that followed had me seeking refuge, looking for some place where people still saw through all of his lies. I started reading the "Top Ten Conservative Idiots" (I believe) via Buzzflash, found the forums, and after a few weeks of lurking, finally registered.

[rocktivity]

60. That's pretty much my story, Last Texas Dem

Four days after 9/11, I yelled at a patriotic commercial on my TV, "Dammit, stop telling me how to feel!" And to my surprise, I actually started feeling better! I knew something was definitely wrong--with either myself or the way the reaction to 9/11 was being, well, scripted. So I started hitting to Internet to see if I could find like-minded people. I found some at Michael Moore's site, which led me to Democrats.com, which accidentally led me to DU. In response to a welcome post, I wrote, "I've finally found a safe haven!"

:headbang:
rocknation
6013

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

56. 02...member # 8750

[Catchawave]

2. #50,285

[ZombieNixon]

4. #51,842

September 26, 2004! :7

[aQuArius]

5. #135575 since December 2003!

:bounce: I met and fell in love with another DU'er!! :loveya:

[Catchawave]

13. Then you should be #35,575 !

I think you drop the first digit ? My face if going to be awfully red if I'm not explaining this right...no pun intended :silly:

[Left Is Write]

6. 2004.

[FarLeftRage]

7. 2002

#12653...

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. 10/8/01

6194 is my member number.

[sweetheart]

11. how do you know your "member number"?

memory?

[Catchawave]

16. You're #112

Whoa, I am so honored to be on the same thread with you. :hug: Click on your profile....last digits towards the end of your http line? That's how it was explained to me.

[sweetheart]

26. i don't think i started that early

I was writing on Ukonline's free speech board much of 2001 and 2000.
i don't believe i'm number 112... its too early. It wasn't until the
UK closed its primary public free speech board that i migrated to DU.
Gosh, i wish i were worthy of your very humbling remark.

:-) To my recollection, i did not begin heavy posting here until after
9/11. I could have died that day, so i figured since i'm a dead person
walking, why not post the intelligence that they tried to kill that day,
the way i see it... screwem if they can't take a joke....

#112 is too early... I'm very flattered, but it can't be right.

[Catchawave]

31. It's from the date you registered with DU, I believe ?

Not from your first post? I know I registered loooooong before I started posting. Maybe that's what's confusing.

I'm starting to realize joining DU date = membership number, which has nothing to do with #posts. There's many here who joined in the Flagship Year, who have not even made New Yawker's Milestone Thread :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. When you click on your member profile icon......

The number shows up in the address at the top of the page....

At least, that's where the address is on my computer....

I did that on your userprofile, and this number showed up: 100112.

And you joined in 2001.....must have joined early that year!

Since I was told that the "1" at the start of those numbers is supposed to be dropped....

That makes your user number 112! (Mine is 64,334)

Pretty damn early!

Congrats to a pioneer!

:yourock:

[sweetheart]

29. i have a feeling

that i'm around number 10,000... and that
the numbering system is missing this 2-order of magnitude
difference. My pioneering work, when DU was doing its early,
was in London on the number10.gov.uk free speech board.

Yes i am an early pioneer, been writing on online boards
including usenet since the early 90's. I always had a vision
that one day, it would be like live-shakespeare, and for
a writer who loves the inspired dynamic, 100 brilliant writers
cooperatively developing a coversation is something a playwright
can only dream of.

But i think i'm tired of writing online now, and lots of people
are coming around who love the trade, now that it has become more
mainstream... bush was defeated on DU early
on, but it has taken years for the decapatation to register with
the inert body politic.

I found DU through Al gore's old site, drawn in to the whole
thing by my president after all, in a time of need, i serve him
until his 2 terms are up.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Click on your profile....

And at the number at the end of the link. You are # 112. Disregard the first three numbers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=100112

I discovered DU within weeks of its inception, but lacked a computer at home and could only check briefly from work. So I didn't much. And only joined 8 months after it had been started.

You must really have been an early member. I remember the date I joined because it was the Monday after the Sunday that the bombing of Afghanistan began. And I did not have a home computer until the following January, so there was a time spread between the time I joined and started posting much.

[RevolutionaryActs]

10. Take a HUGH guess.

;)

[Catchawave]

19. #57854 ?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. I joined on February 3, 2005!

My member number is 64,334......

Ask me anything!

Cool poll, my dear Catchawave!

:hi:

[Catchawave]

22. I was trying to think of a Saturday Night fun Lounge topic !

Thanks dear Peggy :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

17. #23,271.

I joined on the night that Bush announced the war to the Am public. March 19, 2003.

Been her over three years...working on 4.

[Nicole]

18. # 16,322

Joined in 2002.

[Catchawave]

23. Class of 2004's rocking !

[Catchawave]

24. Skinner's #801 ?

For grins, I checked his profile :blush:

[maveric]

25. 2002, 11356.

[dajoki]

28. 5/11/2005

4007 posts(so far)

[Arugula Latte]

30. Class of '01, Baby!

:woohoo:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. 2005.

[realisticphish]

34. June 9, '04

#45302

[aquaman]

35. 2001 for me, member #3915

Hard to believe that it has been that long.

[madrchsod]

36. 11 thousand something

early 2002--- didn`t start posting for a few months after i registered. i go back through the archives and look at all the names/people that are not around anymore

[Catchawave]

40. 11,092

:D

[Ediacara]

39. 2001, #3035

[Catchawave]

41. Kicking this thread puppy g'night

Class '04 Wins :) Seriously, thanks for playing :hi:

[Wapsie B]

42. #3705

here since 2001

[Zomby Woof]

43. 2001

October 6.

[Deja Q]

44. July or Aug 2001, as I recall. Before 9/11.

As Thermodynamic.

Gave up that psuedonym (containing over 20k posts) in favor of HypnoToad in 2003, as a response to FOX cancelling Futurama.

[NMMNG]

45. 11602/ Joined in '05

In fact, my anniversary is this month! :woohoo:

[ulysses]

46. july 2001

#4042

[mrbill]

47. march 2002

#10344

[CRK7376]

48. In March

or April of '01 if I remember correctly....

[JanMichael]

49. Sometime in 2001 after the WTC attacks.

Maybe in October or November but I don't recall which month it was.

[samplegirl]

50. march 2004

[ForrestGump]

51. Weird. I joined in 2001, but my number is 125442

If I ditch the first digit, I still come in maybe some time around 2003.

Makes no sense to me.

I'd think it had something to do with the switch from 'DU 1' (in July, 2003?) except that other '01 DUers seem to have kept their low ID numbers.

I guess I'm just special.

[GalleryGod]

52. Summer of '01

at least one "era" ago........

[TK421]

53. I had to look it up, but I joined in April, 2005

[datasuspect]

54. 1978

i was DU when DU wasn't cool.

[Droopy]

55. March 2003

I was a GDer there at the beginning and then turned my attention to the lounge and later the DU groups.

[redwitch]

57. 2003, before July 6th

25170 Did I do that right? Or Am I 12517?

[bigwillq]

58. 2004 (nt)

[deadparrot]

59. Mid-2003, though I might have been here earlier.

I lurked for a lo-ong time.

[ghostsofgiants]

61. January 5, 2004, #137338