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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI wonder who the oldest and youngest members of Democratic Underground are.
Got to be someone over eighty in this crew. I wonder if there's anyone under twenty?
Renew Deal
(81,852 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Wonder how ol' JK is?
The Truth Is Here
(354 posts)Big on genealogy.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Great guy - I remember him...
Rhiannon12866
(205,054 posts)Tell him that Rhiannon says "hi!"
Phentex
(16,334 posts)a blast from the past
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)True Dough
(17,295 posts)for septuagenarians and octogenarians who have adopted computer use, surf the internet and participate in discussion forums. Of course, I respect those who refuse too. But they're missing out.
unc70
(6,110 posts)Was a mere teenager in high school when I learned to program. I have several relatives in their 90s who are online, one cousin recently turned 100. He was still mowing his own grass, last I heard.
I think there should be a few DUers in their 90s, quite a few in their eighties. There are a lot of us in our 70s.
MineralMan
(146,281 posts)today. I took my first Fortran programming class in 1963, when code was entered on an IBM punch card machine. You could look at us as "very early adopters." Some of us have been involved ever since. So, there should be no surprise.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I think the internet may be a mite older than you think it is.
True Dough
(17,295 posts)Sure, there are a lot of "seniors" who use the internet. But I also know many who either want nothing to do with it or who don't trust it at all: no online shopping or banking.
sweetroxie
(776 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,165 posts)Hekate
(90,616 posts)...students, too.
I hope some young'uns check in.
As for me, I came in 2002 and am now 71. Do the math. I used to have much more energy to fight BushCheney than I do now to fight the Orange Monster.
murielm99
(30,724 posts)and I joined in 2003. I lurked for a year before that.
I have more energy now to fight, because I have more time for it. I am retired. I hope things remain stable enough for me that I can continue the fight.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)Still can't believe it. Years go by so fast.
Rhiannon12866
(205,054 posts)LeftPeopleFinishFirst has checked on on DU.3, but that's it. They were teenagers at the time, I remember when she and John Kleeb graduated in the same year. But they all must be well out of college but now.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,365 posts)"CONFERENCE CALL IN TEN MINUTES!"
He turned out to be one GIANT dickweed, not to mention a fraud and a huckster.
https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/common-sense-central/content/2018-02-26-the-shame-of-sheboygan/
canetoad
(17,148 posts)I was trying to think of his name until you posted it.
Aja and WritingIsMyReligion back in the day. Likely in their early 30's now.
Cha
(297,029 posts)the most posts?
Hekate
(90,616 posts)Cha
(297,029 posts)ornotna
(10,797 posts)That would have been newyawker99. She had like a brazilion posts.
Cha
(297,029 posts)Wonder where she is now?
ornotna
(10,797 posts)I think I remember seeing it posted that she was not well. She's been gone from here for some time now. Ah well.
MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)He doesn't post much, but he was still active as of March 7 2019.
No Vested Interest
(5,165 posts)49jim
(560 posts)joined 09/2001, liberal democrat my whole life...DU my # 1 go to site...enjoy following everyone...just don't post much.
I couldn't vote in 1968 against Nixon (I was 19 and voting age was 21). My first vote was for George McGovern in 1972, by then voting age was lowered to 18. The outcry at the time(in the 60's) was, you could die for your country in Nam but couldn't vote!
same month, same year. I too wanted to vote against Nixon but
I was too young to vote despite actually being in 'Nam.
Joined DU the first week it came online.
Turning 70 in July.
First vote was for McGovern. Self-identified as a feminist about my junior year in high school. Joined NOW and still have the first issue of MS magazine. Lurked on DU for quite awhile before I joined, basically because of the stolen 2000 election.
Initech
(100,054 posts)One year away from the big 4-0!
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)The big 4-0 doth loom...
Mosby
(16,295 posts)He served in WWII in some special units because he is fluent in german and polish.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)They armed me with a typewriter and I wrote reports.
panader0
(25,816 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Dont put me closer to the grave than I need to be.
I want to hang in for 2020 election, but the last year has been pretty rough.
panader0
(25,816 posts)byronius
(7,392 posts)Please hang in. I shall send you Good Vibrations.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)rurallib
(62,401 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,374 posts)Joined DU when I was 24. Had my first kid with my wife on Election Day last November!
panader0
(25,816 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)..."Whip It" (snap that whip...), only for the follow up thought to surface that the song is half-again older than bearsfootball516.
justhanginon
(3,289 posts)Not sure how this all turns out. Well, I can make a pretty good guess but that SOB trump better not still be in office when I kick off or I'll be pissed for all eternity and that's a loooong time I hear.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)KPN
(15,641 posts)DFW
(54,325 posts)Andrew Johnson, that is.....
IphengeniaBlumgarten
(328 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,560 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,967 posts)Still trying to decide what to be when I grow up.
fierywoman
(7,679 posts)underpants
(182,720 posts)My wife had me tested
DFW
(54,325 posts)Otherwise, you'd be posting every ten minutes in the Primaries board advocating the presidential candidacy of Susan Sarandon.
underpants
(182,720 posts)I'm all over the place like a riot in a preschool
Separation
(1,975 posts)The youngest and oldest Marine would be the ones who formally cut and share a piece of the birthday cake with the guest of honor.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)I am a little older than that now.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)byronius
(7,392 posts)And then ten thousand because life extension technology will kick in and you'll get to dial back the clock to 24 and counting until you just get too bored with the whole thing.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Tracer
(2,769 posts)... one of my earliest memories was the bonfire and block celebration when WWII ended.
79 and still working.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Although retired, I still play my guitars (paid-up Musicians Union dues, gig-ready); go to the gym 3 times a week, and swim often (also hike); my mind is as keen as ever (blessed/cursed with a steel-trap memory); and I have numerous collecting interests that connect me with people worldwide: Native American carvings and textiles, paper ephemera, toy soldiers (thats military miniatures to the coinniseur), and BOOKS.
Other than a few minor aches from working out, and creeping deafness in my left ear (too many rock concerts seen up-front), and the unstoppable historical changes in ones face, Im still the same person that I was in my 30s (but far, far wiser).
Turning 70 conjures up grandfatherly stereotypes of a portly, cherubic gent nodding off in a La-Z-Boy recliner while reruns of Gunsmoke flicker on the TV. BUT ITS NOTHING LIKE THAT!
It is a weird, somewhat unbelievable sensation when you ponder 70 years. It seems like a long road traveled in some ways, but new and interesting things are popping up all the time. I do worry a bit about the mathematical certainty of passing away, suddenly or otherwise, because that time is now obviously closer. But who knows when the actually expiry date will occur? Nobody! So, until then, Cheers!
byronius
(7,392 posts)If you rest you rust. Have to think and play and work and learn and try hard all the way to the Very End.
VOX
(22,976 posts)And he added, Age is a question of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter."
With the wisdom gained over time, I pace myself better, eat better, sleep better (although the slide into Trumpist fascism vexes me no end), and have far more interests going than I did 15-20 years ago. My wife is a fantastic partner, she cooks, gardens, swims, and she plays guitar too we jam at night often! Why the hell not?