🥳 👏🏽 Professor GAC and Skittles 20 yrs on DU. Lars39 19 yrs. 🥳❤️

[LakeArenal]

Thanks for all your interesting posts.

[Coventina]

1. Skittles: Still ass-kicking after all these years!

[11 Bravo]

9. Yes INDEED!!!!!

[hlthe2b]

2. Congrats to each of you! KUDOS and glad to have you here!

[Skittles]

3. the Professor and I joined at the same time on the same day

WOOT!

[Lars39]

7. Sweet!

[underpants]

22. Congratulations 🎊

[Demovictory9]

42. here is a pic of a computer used in 2001... imagine posting on DU from one of those

[Skittles]

45. hey,I used to hand mount hundreds of tapes onto these drives

I bet I can out-geezer you

[Demovictory9]

51. Wow. Cool

[Skittles]

52. to "scratch" at tape, we peeled off the label

I've seen quite a bit working 41 years in IT

[Celerity]

47. exactly 1 month before the world changed

[alphafemale]

4. How many of us old-timers are still here?

[Coventina]

8. I had my 19th anniversary a few months ago.

[11 Bravo]

11. I'm sneaking up on 19 years, as well. (I'm in awe of the 6-figure posters.)

[Lars39]

14. I've always thought they racked up

the big numbers being a mod way back when.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Still Do

Another DUer closing in on 20 years told me she's racked up huge numbers volunteering as a host & on MIRT.
So, I think those regular volunteers are still piling up numbers.
I'm closing in on 50,000. It would take me 40 years to hit 6 figures. Maybe less, as I lost more now that I'm retired.

[Lars39]

21. Probably take me even longer lol

Congratulations on your milestone, ProfessorGAC. I always think of Bill the Cat, somehow, when I see the “GAC”.

[11 Bravo]

48. If we extrapolate out from my current pace, i'll be closing in on 100 when I hit 50K.

Lord knows WHAT kind of gibberish I'll be spouting by then!

[ProfessorGAC]

49. Beauty!!!

Given my family history, I'm not holding out hope of hitting 100k.
I'd be pushing 85, and one person, in the last three generations of both sides of the family made it to 85.
Maybe that means I won't quite be at the gibberish point when I can't post anymore!

[alphafemale]

36. Oh yeah. No where near that busy.

I remember when the 700 Club was a thing. lol

[Atmashine]

25. Almost 17 years.

Approaching 17 years on Sept. 1st. I only have like 400 posts though. Love lurking.

[MustLoveBeagles]

34. Congratulations

[Wednesdays]

35. I've been here since summer 2001 under a different account

I registered as "Wednesdays" in 2002.

[Raine]

39. I'm listed as registering in 2003 but actually was here since winter 2001 lurking. 🙂 nt

[alphafemale]

41. Hi long timer!

[Raine]

43. Hi to you! 🙂 nt

[Hekate]

46. Just hit 19 years & feeling pretty old. I started DU with a dial-up modem.

[Owl]

53. Still here. 20+ years. Time flies.

[Lars39]

5. Thank you, DU!!!

Thanks, LakeArenal!
DUers have never failed to expand, enlighten, and entertain.

[underpants]

20. Congratulations 🎈

[Lars39]

24. Thanks underpants!

[Skittles]

27. heh, I figured you could not be too far behind

Sept 28!

[underpants]

29. Yeah

I thought it was in October.

Love ya Skittles.

[Skittles]

30. back at ya babe

through the decades, through thick and thin

[Maeve]

50. And I thought I was here earlier than it says!

I know I was lurking before my official Oct 9 because I came looking for news on 9/11---lurked to read the Top 10 for several months.

And congrats Skittles!

[malaise]

6. Great DUers

[Auggie]

10. Hey, Professor ...

I’ve always wondered what the GAC stands for. Can you elaborate (no problem if you can’t)?

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Nothing Exotic

They're my initials.
In the early days of the internet, I was teaching advanced organic mechanism theory in a Chicago university graduate program. 600 level class.
They gave everyone an AOL account and the handle was "ProfessorXYZ" at AOL.
When I started traveling even more I quit doing it, but I got used to it as a handle. I didn't want to pay for AOL, so I used the same tag at hotmail.
Then on chat rooms & forums I kept using it.
So, I'm "GAC". My wife even once bought me monogrammed socks for Christmas with that on it!
I always wrote that on memos and sign offs at work, because everyone knew who " GAC" was.
The guys in the band even used to call me GAC. That's how often I used it.

[underpants]

23. Congratulations 🎂

[Kaleva]

12. Congrats to all 3!

[XanaDUer2]

13. Congrats! Nt

[JohnnyLib2]

16. Pillars of DU!

[BannonsLiver]

17. GAC is a cool dude.

[rurallib]

18. two of old Rural's favorites!

[Pobeka]

26. Congrats you three. I've been here that whole time too.

Think I joined up Dec 2000 or so.

Remember those quiet old days, when the thing happening of note was the US Supreme Court installing "W" in the Whitehouse?

[Raine]

40. Congrats to you too! 🥳 👍 nt

[SidDithers]

28. DU rec...

Sid

[TurboDem]

31. I've lurked here for years

and I have to admit I have always wanted one of those famous Skittles ass kickings.

[ralps]

32. I joined DU in 2004! & Congratulations You All!!

[MustLoveBeagles]

33. Congratulations Professor GAC, Skittles and Lars39

[alphafemale]

37. I remember the Panic DU Room when we thought bush2 might shut us down

Some Yahoo place?

[Raine]

38. CONGRATULATIONS to the three of you, 19-20 years 🎉 🤗

of outstanding, informative and entertaining posts ... keep up the good work!

[OhioChick]

44. Congrats, Indeed.

[Solly Mack]

54. Congrats you two! and three!