what sites were you on before DU ?

[olddots]

or what sites were you on if you left DU for a while then came back

there were some site migrations over the last 13 years that lead back to DU .

[Trajan]

1. CSPAN comments .... Yahoo Chat Rooms ....

I finally found a refuge in DU from the pure idiocy of the general population ...

Now it's an imperfect idiocy I reside in ....

[jakeXT]

2. ...

Twoplustwo

[Moondog]

3. Affinity / special interest sites primarily -

photography, macro and micro photography, investments, technical analysis (charting) of various financial markets. In other words, stuff most folks find to be really, really boring.

[csziggy]

4. The Source which was bought by CompuServe which was bought by AOL

It was messages on the Democratic Forum on CompuServe that led me here.

[Xyzse]

5. Hrm.

sciforums - Barely there.
gaiaonline - Still around, I visit now and then. Too much graphics and slow load.
commongroundcommonsense.org/forums - Got Deep Sixed.

[Aristus]

6. BushWatch brought me to DU in March, 2001.

I have registered at several sites like Liberal Underground, and Democratic Warrior. But nothing compelled me to stay with either group. I keep coming back to DU.

[neverforget]

9. BushWatch! I forgot all about them and I used to go there all the time.

[olddots]

7. Malloy ,Randi Rhodes .......

Smirking Chimp , Unfiltered News Network and Huffington Post when it was a baby plus Raw Story .

[femmocrat]

8. Mostly political sites.

CNN used to have a decent chatroom, long time ago. Yahoo Politics chatrooms. Buzzflash. Democrats.com. I don't remember how I ended up at DU. I think I was looking for anti-bush sites.

I spent a lot of time at Democracy For America chat and Wes Clark's chat in 1994.

Really loooong time ago... Delphi Forums. Anyone remember those?

[angstlessk]

10. I used to go to a 'liberal' chat room...which of course was full of non liberals to 'debate'

as if we knew how to debate..it was just one argument after another...but I lost my passion...I used to write rhymes about all sort of things..the primordal ooz...unearned money...ode to the newt..but I lost my passion...I am now an agnostic about politics

[Still Blue in PDX]

11. buzzflash nt

[Wait Wut]

12. TPM and DailyKos

Left DKos after I became increasingly agitated at rude and obnoxious assholes.

Left TPM when they updated their site and my computer almost had a meltdown trying to use it.

Found DU by accident right after I left TPM.

[Spike89]

13. Bartcop and Buzzflash nt

[OriginalGeek]

15. Yeah Bartcop

I always enjoyed reading his page. Still do, actually.

[In_The_Wind]

14. A few dating sites.

DU was my first political site.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Not political -- a fun, sarcastic "news aggregate" -- www.fark.com

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They USED to have the most incredible Photoshop contests, but either those masters moved on to
become professionals or they just got tired and moved along. The contests pale in comparison to
those old ones.
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It's still kinda fun and smart-assed.
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[Jamaal510]

17. I used to read comments on political YouTube videos

and in the Yahoo Answers politics section, but I eventually quit because I got tired of seeing all the Ron Paul worship and Obama bashing.

[baldguy]

18. Does anyone remember Prodigy?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

19. Didn't spend much time on any site between 2001 and mid 2008...

Then I started going to Huffington Post, when it was sold to AOL it changed and eventually I began looking around for another place to call home. A friend insisted I would love DU...she was right, I do!

[lastlib]

20. Were there other sites before DU?

I thought DU always was, and ever more shall be.....

[dimbear]

21. Big Eddie's board.

That was a good alternative to here, but then there was that one post of mine.......

[union_maid]

22. Various places

Spent more time on Arlo.net than anywhere else. That's where I made friends for life and IRL, too. I also used to hang out on web and internet related sites - Sitepoint forums and Emaildiscussions. For politics there was this horrible little messageboard connected with a portal I was using and I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. It was like Excite and Lycos but it was something else. That's where I first met rightwing talking points of the day.

[ohiosmith]

23. None!

[BarbaRosa]

24. TurnLeft

Not well moderated so ended up getting so polluted they had to give it up.

[Katashi_itto]

25. Mainly political porn sites HuffPo etc, some dating sites...like "Hot Liberal Women Wanting Trouble"

Nothing like a liberal chick talking dirty...screaming


"Lassiez faire capitalism!!!....Eric Cantor....!!!! Republicans are looking out for us...!!"

...I like the filthy stuff.

[Bertha Venation]

26. CNN (very old discussion boards), PlanetOut

Met Mrs. V. on PlanetOut, October 24, 1999.

[davsand]

27. Salon.

I was at Salon's now defunct Tabletalk when they went "pay to post." I wandered for a short time then came here when I saw a link to one of the very early LBN threads. I registered and started posting here immediately.


Laura

[clyrc]

28. Me too

I used to spend way too much time on Tabletalk, then went to spending way too much time here, and now I go back and forth between Facebook and DU.

[davsand]

29. Gosh, and there I was looking for the "like" button!

Laura

[clyrc]

30. I do that too

Hey back at you.

[TrogL]

31. Free Republic - kept getting banned and sent over here

[Loryn]

32. Huffington Post

Still post there.