Fellow DUers.. How did you find this place?

[RagAss]

For me it was a link on my friend Michael Moore's website.

How about you?

:hug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

[HockeyMom]

1. During Kerry's campaign

One link lead to this.

[northamericancitizen]

55. +1

[CTyankee]

85. same here. I was looking for a good Dem website and got linked to this.

I think it was Buzzflash. It was during the Kerry campaign and I felt a real need to connect with other liberals. I remember posting with great hope as I went off to vote on Election Day, so I probably got here a couple of months earlier...it's been part of my daily life ever since...

[Oceansaway]

2. a link from the old Court TV blog...nt

[lisa58]

3. buzzflash link...

...and I'm so glad I did!

Happy Anniversary EVERYONE!!!!!

[starroute]

44. Buzzflash for me too

I kept reading Top 10 Republican Idiots through that link for months until I finally got my nerve up to start hanging out at the board.

[Uzybone]

4. via Bartcop...right after the grand theft of 2000

[Cleita]

5. Media Whores, a website that I

wish would come back especially now that Comcast is taking over the media that Ruppert Murdoch hasn't.

[lisa58]

9. I used to love that site...

...what happened to it?

[Cleita]

13. I guess they got a day job but it or something

like it is sorely needed.

[lisa58]

33. agreed

[valerief]

6. Another protester at an antiwar rally in 2005 told me about it. nt

[mike_c]

7. a link from democrats.com back in 2001....

Back in the day when I was looking for like-minded souls.

[lisa58]

12. Me too - democrats.com kept me going

[CTyankee]

86. did you ever here of politicalwag.com? I used to hang out there but

it closed (it was right before the 2001 election). I spent 3 years "in the wilderness" before finding DU.

[hlthe2b]

8. Skinner's banner on MSNBC: Inauguration Day, 2001

for the illegitimate "posuer". I lurked for a couple of months before getting up the nerve to register.

Skinner once posted a summary of the first 7 days of DU... I just posted a request that he do so again. This link is all I can find of it (one page) , but I think many would enjoy:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010418001842/democraticunderground.com/articles/010127_7days.html

[mmonk]

10. On someone's campaign site.

They were talking about how liberal it was. So I knew it would be good. That was in 2003. Never looked back.

[leeroysphitz]

11. I used to jump over from Whitehouse.org to read Bob Boudelang and the top ten. n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

14. Google

2 days after Ohio '04.

[ashleyforachange]

28. Google also but

it was because I was unemployed and wanting to do something with my life since I cannot afford to go back to college. I tried reseaching commune living or doing the WWOOF thing but thankful DU appear!

[silverweb]

15. I don't really remember exactly.

A link or mention somewhere fairly early in the spring of 2001.

That was all it took and I was hooked. :)

[NEOhiodemocrat]

16. link from Buzzflash.com

Came over to visit and decided to stay!

[Canuckistanian]

17. It was right above "Democratic Underwear" in a website list I saw somewhere

So I decided to click on the link.

Seriously, I think it was a Buzzflash link back in 2001 for The Top Ten Conservative Idiots.

Then I noticed all these profanity filled post titles on the side of the page.....

[rosesaylavee]

18. My sister dallaigh lllama (formerly DVJNU)

made me come here in the summer of 2005. Took me a day or two to get over a hundred posts... took her about a year.

Hey, K&R! :hi:

[lins the liberal]

19. Media whores

Heard a caller on c-span mention media whores. Went there and found a link or mention, can't remember which to DU.

[Bozita]

23. a link at MWO for me

[elocs]

20. Turned left at Greenland. (I've always wanted to say that.) n/t

[lisa58]

39. Fabulous reference - I'm gonna use that!

[TBF]

21. It was actually on a music fansite, someone posted a link

to the top 10 conservative idiots

[nevergiveup]

22. Shortly after Idiot Son won re-election.

I was in a major funk and stumbled on this site. DU helped pull me out of my depression.

[lisa58]

43. been there...

[haikugal]

24. Google search for Progressive/Liberal forums

[Tikki]

25. Late 2001, posting on a generic BB and the wingers said..

"Why don't you just go to Democratic Underground and post there?"...
So I did and joined DU in 2002...:)


Tikki

[Atticus]

26. I saw a reference to DU on a site called "The Democrats Won!" and dropped by to

check it out.

[Broken_Hero]

27. One of my wife's co-workers

recommend this site to me in 2004. I didn't come here til the day after Kerry lost. I read the boards for a while and joined in May of 05.

[hyphenate]

29. the idiots postings

Got me over, as I was on other boards before DU. It took me awhile to log a lot of posts. But I. Persevered. I'm still here.

[tavalon]

30. I went to a teach-in in Austin, TX

A writer I had never heard of spoke there (William Rivers Pitt) and he matched my pov so well, I bought his book. And in the credits, he mentioned Democratic Underground. I came here as one of his groupies but I stayed through thick and thin, even the times when he had left, voluntarily or not.

[patrice]

31. I think it was a link on MoveOn's forum. I had just been laid off and was looking

for people interested in what is/was going with this country politically, in response to the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

There was a science forum out there, which I can't remember the name of it, but it was the earliest example of what I was looking for. I heard that it was pretty much spaghetti code there, but it was the sort of thing I wanted. Email from MoveOn brought me to their website and I found their discussion forums there and then there was either a link or someone posted about DU, so that brought me here.

[onecent]

32. I wish I COULD remember, but for the life of me I cannot. n/t

[ljm2002]

34. mediawhoresonline...

...they had a link to DU, where I found the Top 10 Conservative Idiots, and was hooked then and there.

[Systematic Chaos]

35. The shrub told me not to go looking into those rumors on the internets!

So, of course I had to start looking for rumors on the internets!

That was back just after 9/11.

I found a site called The Grudge Report, which is a parody of Drudge with a liberal slant, and at the time there was a link to DU there.

I lurked for a few months and then joined in early 2002.

[Martin Eden]

36. My good friend scubadude turned me on to DU 9 years ago

DU is where I learned of all the Bush lies ignored by the "liberal media" in the march to war in Iraq.

[LanternWaste]

37. Ask Auntie Pinko...

Ask Auntie Pinko...

A link sent me to "her" editorials, and it was progressive history from then on. :)

[Raine]

38. From a friend who had been here since the begining

she told me about it. :-) :thumbsup:

[ejbr]

40. I was banned from Dailykos

for insisting that Bush stole the 2004 election. Although the republicans counted and controlled the ballots in question, it was up to those of us who could not obtain how the votes were counted to prove fraud. Thank you Kos for sending me here!!

[Rhiannon12866]

41. My friend turned me on to DU after I became interested in politics.

Before 9/11, I voted and that was about it, but that event scared me witless and I began reading and trying to find out as much as I could. I registered here in January of 2003, I think, just in time for the build up to the Iraq war, so I had DU for that and don't think I would have survived the 2004 election without DU. :( It's become my home. :thumbsup:

[bluestate10]

42. After the 2011 elections.

I did web searches looking for democratic sites. My preference was moderate democratic sites, but I found none of those having much life. I clicked on the DU link, stopped in to read a little. Although outnumbered by Netroots and Young Turk types, I have found enough moderates on DU to feel comfortable, and enough Liberals that engage in debate to feel like I am being communicated to.

[Exultant Democracy]

45. I found, Top 10 conservitive idiots, while doing a google search for Al Franken

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. PassingFair told me about it.

[Kermitt Gribble]

47. A friend on another message board told me about DU in 2005.

I was elated to be exposed to a place where my opinions were so similar to so many other's. The thing that really blew me away, though, was the high level of conversation/discussion. The quality and intelligence of posters on DU are unmatched on any other discussion forum on the web.

[Loki]

48. I think it was Buzzflash

I was nearing rage level looking on the Internet for anything anti Bush and found some sites that were just beginning to find their voice like Josh Marshall, Bartcop, and clicked through a link to DU and I thought I'd found nirvana. Lurked for several months and finally posted in late April or early May 2001 and was immediately welcomed by dear Crewleader. I've been here almost everyday since. I haven't got high post counts like a lot of folks here, but this is really home

[underpants]

49. FreeRepublic thread ragging on Will Pitt

either that or the Bob Boudelang article that was linked on buzzflash or it was Auntie Pinko responding to "Do people think they are rich if they vote Republican?"

but I think it was the FREEPER thread

[Arkansas Granny]

99. I came here through Freeperville, also. I had followed a link to get there and

lurked for a while (back in 2003-2004 there were still some sane posters over there) and they kept making reference to DU, so I thought I would check it out. I'm very glad I did.

[underpants]

113. We are all glad you did

:hi:

[pacalo]

50. I wish I could remember. During the time I joined (2004), I regularly visited

Salon, Huffington Post, AllHatNoCattle, among others, & probably clicked on the DU link posted. I do remember my first impression of DU: Wow! I'm in heaven; this is THE place!

:grouphug:

[AndyTiedye]

51. I Googled "Reichstag Fire"

[calimary]

52. Just after Selection 2000. I was SO down in the dumps, and feeling so alone.

There was this huge backwash in the media that a) WASN'T covering anything or anyone who had a case to make against bush's legitimacy in office and b) was avalanching all over the place about how wonderful bush was/would be/always had been.

I started looking around on the internet and found a site called Resident Bush. As in - can't call him President because he got in there fraudulently. But he IS, in (sad) truth, a Resident of the White House and of the Oval Office, so he could fairly and accurately be titled Resident bush. I liked that a lot and was SO happy that I finally found SOMEONE SOMEWHERE (besides my husband and a few equally devastated and disenfranchised friends) who saw it the way I did. I was so happy I even sent him a donation. I was pretty new to internet-anything, so I just started looking around, in the margins where other links were, and I found Buzzflash.

Then I started looking around Buzzflash and reading all the articles and commentaries posted, and I noticed there were other interesting-looking things in the margins there as well. One of them was the Democratic Underground. And I've been here ever since.

This place, at times, was the ONLY place that helped me save my sanity during that wretched time. More than ANY other. This was the most satisfying of all. I discovered other wonderful links and sites and stuff through DU, but DU seems to be the capitol city of "Nation Internet" for me. Still is. I come here first. And I usually get to other places through here.

[Catherina]

53. My older sister used to post here and told me about it. n/t

[Arctic Dave]

54. The web address was written on the bathroom door in a seedy cathouse downtown.

Maybe that was something else? :think:

[CreekDog]

56. Kind of cantankerous

:D

[w8liftinglady]

57. i was looking for deployed soldier parents...referred to DU by freerepublic

probably a duer there...
Saved me.
I joined in 2005...have been here daily ever since.

[B Calm]

58. Right after DU started someone posted about it an old MSN political discussion group I belonged to

[madinmaryland]

59. I think it was "moose and squirrel" in early 2001. Took me three more years

until I joined.

[delightfulstar]

60. In 2003....

Around the time of the "Mission Accomplished" debacle. I was looking for information on the '04 election, and stumbled upon this site. I was so tired of the BushCo BS, had just moved to a very red state, and needed a safe haven. I found that here at DU. I post under a different username these days, but what hasn't changed is that I can still come here and find great people, and intelligent discussion. Thanks, and here's to another 10 years and more! :toast: :kick:

[Octafish]

61. The Supremos

http://www.democraticunderground.com/supremos/index.html

[frogmarch]

62. A poster called Britt

on a website called Websleuths recommended DU to me.

[riderinthestorm]

63. Beliefnet. I followed another poster here (Raindog).

I'm not even sure to this day if the raindog on beliefnet is the same raindog here on DU but I was so impressed by their smart posts, I googled them and stumbled upon DU.

At the time, I was working part time as a grant writer for a local land preservation agency and one of the regular volunteers got me hooked on beliefnet but I was always uncomfortable there as an atheist. Once I hit on DU, I was hooked. I love the message board structure since it works with my quirky work schedule.

[applegrove]

64. I was at the Bill Maher website and people kept mentioning the DU. Since

I was sick of argueing with freepers and GOP liars I came. I stayed. Great place this is.

[Odin2005]

65. I found it in 2002 during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Lurked for a while...

...then joined in 2005.

it was mentioned in a strategy computer game site I used to frequent, a wing-nut poster there called "Ned" was bitching about "DUmmies" and linked to a thread on DU, making fun of the posters.

[earthboundmisfit]

66. Heard about DU on the Randi Rhodes forum

Decided to stop by to see what was up here - and never left

[Earth_First]

67. A friend in college gave me the link...

This place accounts for 90% of my news/current events and commentary/opinion.

I visit daily, often multiple times per day.

Invaluable website; I thank Skinner et. al for the hard work and dedication to this place!

[SoCalDem]

68. I saw someone holding a sign in a video played on Cspan

as they were interviewed.. The video was from the inauguration I think.. I went online & signed up..it was in June 2001.

This was during the time when Brian Lamb used to chastise callers by saying.."That was SIX MONTHS ago, aren't you "over this by now"..

[highplainsdem]

69. via Buzzflash

[AtomicKitten]

71. me too

[fadedrose]

70. Years ago, when Mike Malloy was on Air America.....eom

[Iwillnevergiveup]

74. Same here! n/t

[texanwitch]

82. Me to.

Thanks Mike.

I was on his message board and found a link to DU.

Glad I found DU.

[Bozita]

109. Did you mean ieamerica.com?

[U4ikLefty]

72. From the Guardian's website right after 9/11

I was reading the stories from abroad & stumbled onto their comments section.

Someone mentioned "those communists at Democratic Underground"...LOL!!!

I lurked for about 1 1/2 years until I came back from the protests days after the Invasion of Iraq in March of 2003.

I loved talking in those early times, but if I said I missed those days I would be lying...Bush sucked!!!

[Lisa0825]

73. From someone who I just learned today passed away yesterday.

Her name was Mary, and she rarely posted (under the name merci_me), but she had been reading here since almost the beginning. She used to send me links to news and articles here that were better than any "major" news outlet. Then I joined and became a regular poster.

She and I lost touch over the years, and a mutual friend and DUer emailed me today to tell me she had passed. She was a lifelong Democrat, a progressive, and a tenacious and determined woman. I wish we'd kept in touch instead of letting a rift divide us.

[glinda]

75. Well then, Mary is a DU angel. Blessings on her journey.

[csziggy]

76. Somebody on the Democratic forum on Compuserve kept posting DU links

And the level of information in those links were so much higher than in the Compuserve Democratic Forum, I stopped going there and joined here.

[Codeine]

77. Buzzflash or Bartcop.

So long ago it's hard to say.

[glinda]

78. During the Palin VP run. I was so distraught I thought I would go mad. Googled

multiple phrases looking for Progressives/Groups/fear/Underground. I think it was the Underground that got me here. And thank goodness for that because the only time I laugh now is with some of the humor here.

[CTyankee]

87. I can't tell you all of the people I know/have run into who felt they were going mad, too!

Had a coworker in tears. One couple in their late sixties actually planned a trip to Spain, they were so unnerved. I had family members nearly unhinged (thank god we're all liberals). I was already on DU at that point which is why I was "stable." this place helped me enormously...DU and Stephanie Miller, who saved what sanity I had left...

[glinda]

105. The relief of finding DU has been indescribable.

[Skip Intro]

79. It was just after 9*11 - searching the web. Maybe a link from Buzzflash. nt

[Urban Prairie]

80. From a link someone posted on my locally-based Detroit Yes! website forum a couple years ago

Wish that I would have known about or discovered it many years ago.

It likely would have helped me get through the very dark 8 years of the Shrub administration, and the Cheney-neocon era, as well as the economic and political devastation that it caused, and still is causing in our country, much more easily...oh well.

[Missy Vixen]

81. Saw a sign in the crowd on Inauguration Day, 2001

Been here ever since.

[denbot]

83. Democrats.com, and Buzzflash

I think I discovered all three on the same day.

[Lugnut]

84. I don't remember.

I've been here for most of the past ten years and I can't tell you how I found the place.

[laundry_queen]

88. From Bartcop

I found bartcop during the run up to the Iraq war and sometime between then and Nov 2004 I followed a link and started lurking here at DU, glad to find a message board that had more traffic than Bartcop. Then on election night when the traffic was so much I couldn't get on, in a panic I tried to register and it took awhile but the mods got me in! Thank god because that night and the next week were brutal, I was glad to have DU.

On edit: my join date says Oct but I'm certain it wasn't until election night. Odd. Unless my memory is that bad! I know I had tried to join once and it didn't work, maybe that was that date?

[sakabatou]

89. I Hate Bill O'Reilly.com

[NuttyFluffers]

90. Jennifer Government: nation states, "web game" book promo.

some people were talking politics and blithely mentioned DU as one of the better places for political discussion. at that time they were quite right. DU is still decent, but a few more places now hold their own.

... i think my nation state is dead by now, however. neglected for over 6~8 years at least.

[Shandris]

91. Buzzflash and Bartcop, circa 2002

Forgot my old username and password when I went 2 years without internet access. :silly:

[DragonSlave]

92. Used wikipedia's list of the largest internet forums

This one is on there. I just went where the action is.

[Dappleganger]

93. Honestly, I don't remember.

I have no recollection just how I stumbled into this bar, it was just in front of me one day and I began to read. Read for several years before signing up. You guys were pretty intimidating with your knowledge and wit so it took some time to build up the courage to jump in.

[TorchTheWitch]

94. I can't remember

I'm sure it was following a link or suggestion from some other site, but other than that I don't know. Who remembers these things? I can't even remember where I put the car keys or what I had for dinner.

[ladyVet]

95. I followed a link from a low-carb message board.

The board owners were not going to allow anymore political postings, and another member there posted a link to DU. Since I liked what I'd read of her postings, I followed her here, and mostly read the home page and a few general discussion posts.

That was in early 2001, and I didn't realize this place had only been active for a few months at that time until recently! :dunce:

Anyway, I was popping in on a daily basis, and on 9-11 I came here looking for information--I remember I could barely see the board through my tears--and was hooked from there.

I finally joined in Oct '04, and I think my first post was on election day.

[sendero]

96. Via...

...MediaWhoresOnline - rip.

[peekaloo]

97. Yahoo group via link

2002 St Patrick's Day parade in Chicago featuring Bu$h protesters.(ignored by corporate media, of course.) Thank you again GinaMaria (I hope that's correct)

[calikid]

98. KZYX in Mendocino CA

Which led to Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, and then to here!

[old mark]

100. Google...looking for Democratic/Progressive forums to counter the terrible

anger I felt at the RW people on other forums I visited...This was in 2008.


mark

[deutsey]

101. Top 10 Conservative Idiots link on Buzzflash

I originally checked out DU right after the Coronation of Bush but for some reason didn't stick around.

Then I kept seeing the Top 10 link on Buzzflash (which I read faithfully and even used to contribute articles to) and started reading the list on DU every week. Then I eased into the forum and have been here as a lurker or active participant (it ebbs and flows) ever since.

[eShirl]

102. a frequent poster on the official Xena: Warrior Princess board posted a few OT links to DU

I never knew her very well, but still see her username on DU from time to time

[NYC_SKP]

103. Newsprism had the link to DU

I'd been reading and posting elsewhere, stumbled on Newsprism.

http://www.newsprism.com/

This is home. DU is home to me.

:grouphug:

:patriot:

[robdogbucky]

104. Lurked at

a group of community boards that CNN used to host, and right around the time of Chandra Levy and the selection of 2000 one of their threads went out of control (drugs forum) where the pro-drug reform members began overwhelming everyone else and suddenly the whole network of CNN community message boards disappeared.

But just as that happened I was then lurking at Salon after being on a plane with one of their contributors, Bob Someone, (Calahan?) who does those weird cartoons that are adult cartoons, and he was railing on in drunken rant about Joe Lieberman, whom he had grown up with and warned me and my wife about.

I went to read some of his stuff and saw a link to DU someone posted in a thread on Salon's political boards and then lurked here for about 9 years before registering just after the '08 deception (oops, I mean election).

Does Salon still exist? (seriously that is how addicted to DU I have become)


Hands off my Social Security!
Hands off Latin America!



rdb

[dionysus]

106. it was linked on a site called bushwatch

[NAO]

107. During Kerry for President 2004

I was a very active poster on the Kerry board, and I kept seeing links to DU.

So I came here, looked around a bit, and it's been my favorite board ever since.

[woo me with science]

108. I don't remember. nt

[liberal N proud]

110. From a link on Mother Jones in the early fall of 2004

[IcyPeas]

111. SmirkingChimp web site had a link here to DU

[RagAss]

112. Kicked..

[InvisibleTouch]

114. Followed a link from Smirking Chimp.

I hung out there for a while after the heist of 2000, and it was a great site for its time - but I found that DU had a lot more variety of discussion, not all of it politics-related. Something for everyone and for nearly any mood. So I stayed. :)

[TygrBright]

115. I saw these two peculiar-lookin' guys on teevee during the Bush inaugural parade. n/t

[October]

116. Desperate search for like-minded people after GWB became president

[mwdem]

117. mediawhores.com.

I just followed their link.

[muffin1]

118. I started working for a freeper in 2002, I think.

I found a site called Dubyaspeak: http://www.dubyaspeak.com/ and there was a link to DU. I lurked for years before finally joining in 2006 - right after we took Congress.

[RagAss]

119. One last kick...just to be sure everyone who wants to comment has seen it.

[mzteris]

120. through Truthout...

Go Will Pitt!

:thumbsup:

[Karenina]

121. My stand partner at conservatory

whose office one of the planes went through (fortunately he had been late that day) thought I needed to check it out.