DU has 31,540,293 posts since Jan 2001 - anybody know what post # 1 said?

[RiverStone]

I assume it made the Greatest Page :)

Oh, this post makes it 31,540,294!


peace~

[SidDithers]

1. Hello? Anyone here?...nt

Sid

[SoCalDem]

30. "watson, I need you "

:)

[Zywiec]

2. This is going to be the start of 4 horrible years! n/t

[The Count]

3. Here's a guess: Gore won! We wuz robbed!

[jobycom]

14. More likely, it an attack calling Gore Republican-lite and a DLC whore.

Switch Hillary with Gore today, and it was about like that. My first posts were defending Gore. Now I'm defending Clinton. In four years I guess I'll be defending Kucinich.

[AuntPatsy]

23. Careful your colors are showing

[WilliamPitt]

55. True. True.

Funny how you have The Count in your post.

Ah, irony.

[cloudbase]

4. Something something

Olive Garden something.

[CJCRANE]

5. This is gonna be HUGH !!!11!!! n/t

[Aristus]

6. There was no Greatest Page back then.

DU has never been primitive, but it once was a much, much simpler site.

[RiverStone]

34. Never primative? But I found this!

I sense there is a connection between the Dawn of DU and the Dawn of....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdoA3AJ6zGE&mode=related&search=

:think:

[flvegan]

7. "Skinner, how do I start a thread?"

Gawd, I miss ATA.

[jobycom]

8. Actually, there was no Greatest Page.

And we had to type in the snow. Uphill. With rocks.

[RiverStone]

12. LOL!

:rofl:

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. ...and we LIKED it that way!

[Canuckistanian]

22. Try and tell that to kids today

Luxury!

[NYVet]

16. You forgot to add

both ways, with a handfull of milk because we were too poor to afford cups.


AND WE LIKED IT!!!

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. Luxury.

n/t

[TahitiNut]

58. Where'd you get rocks??? Nobody gave me a rock!

I had to use my bloody, frozen fingers! :cry: But I'm a better DUer for the experience.

[KansDem]

9. "Mr. Watson. Come Here. I need you."

I'll go with the ol' standard.

[parasim]

10. testing nt

[BlooInBloo]

11. Wow!!! I'm almost 5 hundredths of a 1 percentage point of DU!!!

Nice to put things in perspective. Guess that's why finance people use "basis points"

:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

13. Not exactly the first, but try this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=25&forum=DCForumID40&archive=yes

:rofl:

and this...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=62&forum=DCForumID35&archive=yes

(Jan. 30, 2001)

[me b zola]

33. Did you see the sig line of the poster?

http://www.mcgreevey2001.com/

:rofl:

I'm not making fun at the poster, just the rear view mirror, including my own :rofl:

[madinmaryland]

38. Kind of interesting. Though he was an improvement over Christie Todd Whitman.

I think.

:shrug:

[Cha]

63. "Gore in 4"! Poor things!

Wonder why that one was locked?

[avrdream]

69. Wow, interesting history there.

Strange seeing the dates of the posts and noticing the comments about FR. I guess that place couldn't be named back then either.....was that one of the first rules?

[Debi]

72. Ha ha Where was LynneSin's cowbell??? n/t

[Lobster Martini]

17. More importantly, what is the post at 12:01 a.m. January 19, 2009 going to say?

--Hopefully--"free at last!"

Or maybe "finished packing yet, Pickles?"

Or maybe "Where the hell was Dick's 'undisclosed location?' The old bastard never did tell me."

Or maybe "Regrets? Never got to the end of 'My Pet Goat,' for one."

Or maybe "Mr. President, someone from Democratic Underground just called. Said to put the silverware back."

[Breeze54]

47. I hope I'm saying --- "At last, at last, we have our country back!!"

:bounce: :toast: :bounce: :toast: :bounce: :toast:

[A HERETIC I AM]

19. "Tap, Tap, Tap...This thing on? Hey! Can you hear me in the back?"

"Well, it ain't much but it has potential."

[karlrschneider]

20. It said "CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW"

:D

[blondeatlast]

21. ...

:rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

24. I just joined DU - ask me anything

Or some variation.

[smalll]

25. I'm guessing it was about breastfeeding at the Olive Garden. /nt

[The Straight Story]

26. "Elad, if you can see this, reply -Skinner"

:)

[Cha]

65. LOL!

:D

[Holly_Hobby]

27. "Test" n/t

[rug]

28. Chicken.

[SoCalDem]

29. Locking

:rofl:

[conscious evolution]

31. Post # 2 probably said

"Go away you freeper troll"
or
"IBTL"

I wonder were they hid the crazy tinfoil stuff before 9-11.

[Ezlivin]

32. I want to know what the LAST post will be

You know, the one made right before the internet goes dark.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

35. It Said "4 Years And 294 Days Till OMC Joins. Post Now And Enjoy It While You Can!"...

Then it was followed by a response of:

"Locking. Please don't call out other members, even if they are 4 years and 294 days away from joining".

[uppityperson]

36. Hey, hi, hanging in there? Good to see you.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

37. Yeah, Hangin In There. Minutes Hangin Like Hours, Hours Like Days, Etc.

I'm trying to keep my mind off it and figured I'd browse GD a bit and see what I've missed. She's still hanging in there and I just have to be patient. It will be a good couple days before anything can really start turning around. I'm a very impulsive, impatient, and at times obsessive type person, so this is just killin me mentally. I'm doin alright though. I just wish sometimes they could knock MY ass out for a week, ya know? :)

[shadowknows69]

39. Jesus wept

[alfredo]

40. Unhappy New year?

[DemoTex]

41. By 5/2001 I was here. So was William Pitt, and others.

The first Freeper was "lonstar". In other words, we (me, Pitt, and scant others) have seen it all. Check in if you were here at the start. Jan-Jul 2001. My DOR (date-of-rank) is May 2001.

[DemoTex]

42. BTW RiverStone ..

There was no "Greatest Page" in 2001. DU was stone-age in 2001. There were very few of us, but most were on dial-up connections. Big news bogged the site down, even with the small number of DUers. 9/11, 9/12, 9/13 etc were almost impossible on dial-up.

[RiverStone]

52. reminds me of the Flintstones

Dial-up message boards eh?

That must of slowed down the heat in any heated debate :)

Allowed time for more thoughtful answers... :think:
-or by the time your post made it through the 56K's - the person who posted the OP was already in bed.

In fact, you probably did not even have these smilies things :shrug:

Damn good thing you toughed it out and blazed a trail through the cyber-wilderness for all the DUers that followed :hi:

And, glad your still here!



peace~

[Skinner]

43. As a matter of fact, I know exactly what the first message said.

"Nice f------ discussion board. There's nobody here."

(We wrote it down for posterity.)

[cobalt1999]

46. LOL

I love it. :rofl:

[Breeze54]

48. LMAO!

I think a lot of new discussion boards say that! :P

[Saphire]

49. cool story.

[Patsy Stone]

50. Will Pitt, right?

:)

[WilliamPitt]

56. Alas, no.

Sounds like me tho, dunnit.

:)

[Patsy Stone]

71. (shakes head)

Shoulda been you, man. Shoulda been you.

[DemoTex]

51. Skinner. That's great stuff. I remember it well.

Do a history of DU.

Mac

[RiverStone]

53. And it still is a

Damn nice F----- discussion board!

Thanks for sharing it's first baby steps.
DU was a cute kid!
Of course, we all know how adolescence is.
Appreciate sharing the ride with so many other interesting souls.
Long way to go...


peace~

[aaronbees]

57. What a fun read ...

so what ever happened to that intern? That's my burning question. :D

[Flabbergasted]

59. You've come a long way. Nice work. LOL

[WilliamPitt]

61. mw, kali, Treehugger, 4peace, moosedog, mountain girl, JarJar, whyzayker, bill1x1

Wow...

[Cha]

66. OH GAWD!

:rofl:

[yodermon]

67. Hmm... Point of Order?

is that the literal text, or are you censoring "fucking"? My guess is the former, but I have to ask.

[Skinner]

70. I believe the literal text wrote out the word in its entirety.

I suspect that when we copied it down for that essay, we edited it. But I'm not sure.

[Breeze54]

44. Probably, "Argh!! I can't take it anymore!!"

:P

[Uncle Joe]

45. I believe it was titled "Is anybody out there?"

:)

[WilliamPitt]

54. Your candidate sucks.

:P

[Semper_FiFi]

60. I doubt that the first post could have "said" anything.

Letters, and posts do not say anything because they cannot speak. They do, however, read.

[Oeditpus Rex]

62. I bet it was

"Link?"

[Ellen Forradalom]

64. "I got tasered at the Olive Garden while breastfeeding Elad"--Skinner

Or something like that.

[bridgit]

68. CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!

:rant:

[JVS]

73. It was probably someone accusing themselves of being a noob troll