Oh My!! This is A VERY GOOD READ! (crosspost) "SEVEN DAYS UNDERGROUND"
From the Admin Page & a question posted to Skinner from DUer cbayer (thanks for this post cbayer)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12597165
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"Seven Days Underground
Democratic Underground had its official launch on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001. Much has happened since then. To mark the passing of our first week, we felt that our faithful visitors might like to read a SLIGHTLY EMBELLISHED first-person account of the highs and lows of launching an underground political website. by Skinner
DAY 1 (SAT) - A GIFT FROM MSNBC
On Friday night, we were up until about 3:00am getting ready for the website's big Inaugural Day Launch. We were hoping to be in bed by midnight, but our intern a young radical from one of the local community colleges spilled paint all over our banner at around 11:30, and we had to start from scratch. EarlG thought the intern was trying to sniff the stuff, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were true (he kept mumbling something about how "acrylic lasts longer than this latex crap", but we weren't clear on the context). The rest of us are too old for that sort of thing, but we'll keep him around because he is the only one here that knows anything about programming perl. (Fortunately, he got the "Nuclear Button" script working by 10:00pm, before the can of paint arrived.
On Saturday, we met at our makeshift "office" in Northwest DC sometime around 11:00am. We were supposed to meet at 9:30, but the intern overslept. He showed up with his own homemade "George W. Ass" sign, but we wouldn't let him bring it to the protests Newshound thought it was "off message."
-----------The rest of this very Good Read is here: Enjoy!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/01/010127_7days.html
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)DU the early years.
Its humorous also..
very nice. Thanks cbayer
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016107089
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)He said he probably could but it wasn't in his playbook at the time.
I always think political histories are interesting. Even those of such recency, which 2001 really is. Turning points and all that...
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Hope it can be in print one day.
Amazing history that we DUers were quite close to.