When did you start posting about politics on-line? For me it was recount FLA 2000

[merbex]

and I found a board over at c-span which was relatively tame compared to what was going on at Yahoo boards at the time.

The selling of the Iraq War got me back on that board at c-span and it was through that board I learned about links to blogs, and other forum boards and how to navigate my baby stepping way around the political web to dailykos,du, and Howard Dean's campaign which really opened the blogosphere and online politics for me at an accelerated pace.

What was your experience?

[Atman]

1. January, 2002, right after Asscroft covered Justice in blue drapes.

On a Yahoo board, of all places, which only got taken down about two months ago, after nearly 210,000 posts.

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[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. Recouping from surgery in 2004

I was online a lot, became educated, and found DU. I never left. :)

My first protest (in 2003) seems so long ago...

[graywarrior]

3. On Michael Moore's forum, 1999?

[Warpy]

4. For me, it was the disappointment Clinton became

and no, I'm not talking about his high schoolish affair with an overheated groupie.

He was a disappointment because he passed NAFTA and GATT and let much of Reagan's hideous legacy stand. He was a disappointment because he caved to the right on trade without holding out for national health insurance. He was a disappointment because he and his wife caved to big insurance, offering a universal healthcare plan that protected the insurance giants, not we the people.

I started posting politics online 11 years ago.

[merbex]

6. WOW - 11 years ago?

If I had a prize to give out you might get it!

Those were the olden days of political on-line activty - what political sites, and boards did you go to?

[Warpy]

11. All over the place, wherever I could find a place to crank

and it was rarely well received. The net was incredibly right wing then, lots of true believers in world religion and Randorrhoid economics rubbish.

I learned to avoid a lot of mixed sites like the plague. I've had my ISP, my job and my life threatened by the most sickening people on the planet.

This board is a haven.

I'd tell you all my nicks, but then I'd have to kill you. :evilgrin:

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. I have not checked the AOL boards in a while

but you are right, I started posting in 98 online at the AOL boards, earlier if I count a gaming boards where occasionally politics entered the nix, and they were and STILL ARE rather right wing

[Fresh_Start]

5. apolitical until after the Bush disaster

started posting early 2004 trying to persuade people for the election.

[TahitiNut]

7. Around 1980-81.

I've been using the Internet (and other online services) since around then. :shrug:

[merbex]

8. I've got to come up with another word for WOW - but what sites

for politics was available back then?

[TahitiNut]

10. Usenet.

And various BBS's. The Internet has been around a lot longer than the Web, and most of the functions people now perform in web browsers have been done for quite some time. Since I worked at Xerox, I had access to (and did some work on) the Xerox Research Internet, one of the most advanced subnets of the time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Ah yes, usenet

an almost dead medium these days

;-)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. 2002.

Here. 2 years of Dear Leader drove me to this.

Holy Intercourse! I have been posting here for 5 STINKING YEARS???!!!

Oh man. My life must be worse than I thought.


;-)

[Gman]

12. On the old Michael Reagan forum

circa 1995 or so. Highly conservative and a lot of fun to completely disrupt.

You could only post about 5 lines of text at a time. Once time I copied and pasted pieces of the Communist Manifesto 5 lines at a time. No one realized what it was.

[grasswire]

13. the day that Monica Lewinsky was revealed

I knew on that day that a right-wing conspiracy to destroy Bill Clinton was in place. How did I know? Because of the talking heads that were immediately deployed to the news shows -- they all had talking points and were revealed within days to have ties to one man: Richard Mellon Scaife.

Previously, I had posted on politics. But that was THE DAY I was radicalized and began to fight.

[MetaTrope]

14. I _think_ it was the Florida recount...although might have been the Clinton impeachment

As I recall, I started with Salon, moved to American Prospect when Salon's forums turned subscriber-only, and finally ended up here at the best place of all.

[PerfectSage]

15. 2003 before the Iraq invasion on the Yahoo Nortel message board

Where I had lots of fun out assholing losers who supported Bush.

[northofdenali]

16. On line in 1995.

Raising hell before that? Since 1968.

[EST]

17. 09/29/2001, I shattered an ankle and lower leg into about

a hundred pieces. The surgeon who installed the various appliances in what remained of my ankle also installed a resistant mrsa and almost killed me. For most of the next year, I was only semi conscious a large part of the time, due to the constant wall of white searing pain and a half dozen subsequent operations. Somewhere in there I started figuring out that something was considerably more fucked up than usual in the US government and the publiclown party and I started googling around, discovering all the neat shit I could discover, using terms like "democrat," "democratic" and "impeach." One of the first places I discovered was Impeachbush.com, another was democrats.com and then DU.

It took about a year to overcome my trepidation with actually posting and a bit after that, I signed up at DU to get out of lurker's corner and actually talk to people.

I was never particularly interested in politics, detested the subject, actually, but that has all changed. I blame it all on you guys!

[Ino]

18. When * convened Congress to "save" Terri Schiavo

I turned to the internet, trying to find out if anyone was as outraged as I was at the ever-encroaching fundie influence, if anyone was DOING something about it. Started at the CourtTV message boards, but that drove me nuts as Repukes post there too. I was so glad to find a haven at DU! I don't post much, but I read a LOT. DU has kept me sane.

[WillyT]

21. Late 2001\Early 2002

Got laid off Nov. 2001 from ripple effect of 9\11 (I was in telecom, so it may have been more than 9\11). Found DU in an online article, been here ever since.

:hi:

[rainbow4321]

22. In the months leading up to Nov 2000

I was on the AOL politics message boards..along with hundreds of other Texans who were begging for people to NOT elect shrub. Posting link after link of how he destroyed Texas during his years as gov. And it worked..he didn't get voted into office. He was instead appointed by SCOTUS.
The repukes would argue/shoot down our facts, then when we provided impartial websites/article w/ stats, the repuke posters would just stop responding.