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Showing Original Post only (View all)Would you like to share a DU memory? [View all]
I guess I am feeling nostalgic as a long time DUer about the "good old days", although I know we faced very serious challenges from the day the forum started.
I started thinking about when I first started posting here. Everything was new (even the internet) and it felt so empowering to communicate with other progressives.
Here's my memory: California Peggy once posted that she replied to everyone who responded to one of her OPs. And she really did. For a while, I felt that that was the coolest thing, and I tried to do so as well. Of course I didn't follow through for too long. There's only one CP.
So many funny and significant things have happened here over the years. What do you remember?
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OSCAR!!!!! I recently re-read this and was literally crying laughing. I'll see if I can find it again.
Scrivener7
Feb 2024
#16
Oscar is the gift that keeps on giving! I go looking for that thread every once in a while, and
Scrivener7
Feb 2024
#171
They also were able to hack a video clip into the DU site in such a way that...
keep_left
Feb 2024
#70
It was alt-right Pepe shit. The soundtrack was "The Protomen". Apparently...
keep_left
Feb 2024
#144
Kephra was the invaluable backbone of Latest Breaking News. His death was a tremendous loss. 💔
Hekate
Feb 2024
#113
He was must read during the W years. When Obama became President, not so much.
OAITW r.2.0
Feb 2024
#179
Found DU through the Randi Rhodes message board back during early Air America Days.
Freethinker65
Feb 2024
#32
The Meta Forum was another interesting experiment. Brought out the worst in EVERYBODY, but you couldn't look away.
Scrivener7
Feb 2024
#48
I still remember the 2004 election. I couldn't believe that Bush* had been reelected.
Rhiannon12866
Feb 2024
#52
Good Grief! That was such a mess! But we didn't have DU back then, more's the pity
Rhiannon12866
Feb 2024
#57
We were definitely robbed then. I couldn't believe it either. Still don't
live love laugh
Feb 2024
#78
I figured after his abysmal first term, there's be no way he'd be reelected.
Rhiannon12866
Feb 2024
#79
This was earlier on -- and I was confused by events. But you may well be right.
Hekate
Feb 2024
#162
Left was united during the Bush administration, Democrats weren't attacked with Both Sides
betsuni
Feb 2024
#81
Glad you joined. Don't be sorry -- I have a couple of bad memories too. If you've been here a long time...
Hekate
Feb 2024
#115
Yes, gone. One of the worst claimed to have been so disgusted with Obama that he moved
betsuni
Feb 2024
#120
July 2008. I had been on DU for 2 or 3 years, just getting used to being trashed on occasion.
DFW
Feb 2024
#89
A poster Calling Hamas members "freedom fighters just like Mandela" is one for me.
BannonsLiver
Feb 2024
#97
I remember the first time I ever heard of DU. I read a banner Democraticunderground.com on CSPAN, watching the bush II
mahina
Feb 2024
#101
I'm also an insomniac -- DU has been great because there is always someone awake in some time zone
Hekate
Feb 2024
#138
Listening in on the police scanner when the Boston Marathon bombing happened.
nolabear
Feb 2024
#111
Hurricane Katrina and the Drowning of New Orleans. We had a slew of DUers who lived there...
Hekate
Feb 2024
#116
Started out as a Hilliary supporter in 2008, but switched early on to Obama.
OAITW r.2.0
Feb 2024
#190
Sent a bajillion red roses to Helen Thomas. I think the occasion was Bush exiling her to the back...
Hekate
Feb 2024
#135