When is DU's Birthday? - and where can we find other DU info?

[ConcernedCanuk]

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I'd be curious to find out who the first 100 members were

the hundred DUers with the most posts

the hundred DUers with the most seniority

and other stuff like that

Do we have a forum/thread that we can find that stuff out?

DU's gotta be close to 10 years old ?

approaching puberty -

oh boy . . .

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[WeDidIt]

1. DU was eight years old on January 20, 2009. n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. DU was born on George Bush's inauguration day? - wow

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I wanna hear from the Admins on this -

That's SOME coincidence

or not . .

[mikelgb]

3. The ADMINS posted a special link just for you at the bottom of the page: About DU

And, again, just for you, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/about.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Thanks, - THAT would be a good place for DU trivia doncha think?

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or make a forum -

DU TRIVIA

that'd be cool . . .

and to the other poster, I haven't seen newyawker99 around for a long time -

she used to do the ***MILESTONES*** thing when posters hit benchmarks like the 700 club an so on

Is she still around?

[Renew Deal]

4. I think NewYawker99 is still #1 in posts

146,953.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=103811

There are probably a few people way up there, but I'm not sure. IndianaGreen comes to mind.

[Webster Green]

6. They unfurled a banner at the chimp's inaugural parade in Jan 2001

When I saw the democraticunderground.com banner, I went right to the site. I must have been one of the first visitors.

I lurked for awhile, then got an account in 2001, but it got lost in the shuffle, as I was not too computer savvy back then.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. COOL - are there pics of that banner at the inaugural anywhere?

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I'd like to see that . .

[Webster Green]

16. I googled and couldn't find any images of it.

I wonder if Skinner or the other admins have a pic.

It was great. It was a big long banner as I remember. :hi:

[ConcernedCanuk]

20. Thanks for trying

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[SharonRB]

7. I didn't find DU until after the 2004 election, but I believe

it began after the stolen election of 2000.

[LearnedHand]

9. Heard about it in 2001; joined early in 2003 (k&r for good questions)

But I have a low post count. I mostly read what others write.

[BlooInBloo]

10. I'm pretty sure they don't give us a full sql interface to their db.

[Trajan]

11. THIS was the week that was ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/01/010127_7days.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. Trajan - well thanks alot for that - it was informative and entertaining

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Maybe all DUers should have to read that

and yes - I read it all

here's a clip from the last page

DAY 7 (FRI) - A WEEK? ALREADY?
And so a roller coaster week had passed. Seven days felt more like seventy - probably because we'd worked about seventy hours each since the site launched. And so, to recap:

Day 1: Got wet. Got on TV. Received hundreds of personal insults.
Day 2: Received hundreds of personal insults. Had a fight.
Day 3: Discovered organized plot to shut site down. Ignored hundreds of personal insults.
Day 4: Insulted conservatives, each other. Disinfected message boards.
Day 5: Earned real money. Beer.
Day 6: Made new friends, relaxed.
Day 7: Received hundreds of personal insults. Wrote the whole thing down.

again

thanx

[XemaSab]

12. How funny that you posted this!

I was just attempting (badly) to recount the story of the founding a few hours ago! :D

[ConcernedCanuk]

14. Read Tajan's post and follow the DU link - it's really interesting

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Karma . . .??

link

[Bombtrack]

15. DU shares a birthday with Bill Maher, Buzz Aldrin, the guy who played Colossus in X-Men

David Lynch
DeForest Kelley
George Burns
James Denton
Paul Stanley of KISS
Rainn Wilson of Soulpancake.com
Richard Moll
Stacey Dash
Tracii Guns
and Victoria Sellers
Skeet Ulrich

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. One boot

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[scarletwoman]

18. You can see everyone's member number by passing your cursor over any of the little icons at the top

of their post, as long as you have your computer set up to show URLs when you pass your cursor over a hyperlink. Not sure how it works in all browsers, but it shows up in a bar at the bottom of the window for IE and Netscape.

Anyway, subtract 100,000 from the number you see at the end of URL and that's the member number -- the order in which you registered at DU. For example, if you pass your cursor over the profile icon in my post, you'll see the number 106679. I am member number 6679 -- I've been here since fall of 2001.

The number that shows when the cursor is hovered over YOUR profile icon is 123712, which makes you member number 23,712. Clicking on your profile reveals that you joined in 2003, before July 6 and that you have 8199 posts.

Also, when you click on someone's profile, their number will also show at the end of the URL that shows up at the TOP of your window as well.

I posted about this a couple months ago -- which turned into a long-ass thread: Do you know that you can see your DU registration number? Don't know if you want wade through all that, but you can get a rough idea of which registration numbers came in which years by what people posted.

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[ConcernedCanuk]

19. KOOL - thanks alot scarlet lady -

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and I'm not interested in wading through all that

But I thought I joined earlier

I know I joined around the USA's invasion of Iraq,

but there was a glitch there around my joining time that the actual dates where a member joined was lost . .

Thanks for your input/response

:hi:

[scarletwoman]

21. I'm glad you saw my post. It IS fun to check out people's registration numbers.

BTW, back when I posted that thread in January, I did a bunch of research on the earlier numbers.

Here's what I discovered:
~The first registration number in 2002 is 8,208.
~The first registration number in 2003 is 20,010.

Don't ask how many hours I spent figuring that out... :P

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