I found a link to the first DU home page (back in 2001)

[mdmc]

Check it out, DU. Happy Birthday! Peace and low stress,
mdmc

http://web.archive.org/web/20010219033913/http://www.democraticunderground.com/

[acmejack]

1. Very cool!

[mike_c]

2. on edit-- wait a minute-- that's from 2002, after the Nov. election....

There were 14,004 members-- lots of old familiar names, too, like kephra, jiacinto, nostamj, Starpass, hedafoil, radfringe, Tinoire, Crewleader, and so on. Nice! But go to the Forums, then LBN and look at the topics of the stories. One refers to the mysterious 18,181 vote margins in the 2002 congressional elections.

Stranger and stranger-- the Articles page is dated January 22, 2002, but LBN has refs to the 2002 election. That's really weird.

[mdmc]

15. sorry mike

this was the earliest link that I could find. I wonder if anyone can dig up an earlier link. I would like to see what DU looked like during infancy.

[mike_c]

16. it's weird-- the front page has very early refs, like in Hate Mail...

...but the forum links are a for a year later, and the Articles link is in between. :shrug: I don't get it. Anyway, it's VERY COOL to see all those old names that I haven't seen in a long time. Makes me wonder

Whatever happened to jiacinto?

:rofl:

[Bluzmann57]

3. Thanks for posting that

It was neat to see the first ever home page. Happy belated birthday to DU, and may we cotinue to grow and prosper. On second thought, may there be an all progressive all the time U.S. Government so there is little need for DU, except to socialize or something.

[Pharaoh]

5. cool..........

my how we've grown...........

[AGENDA21]

4. Look better now..

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. AGENDA21

to DU!

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. The initial DU had a different font for its logo

It was lower-case and looked like a ragged Courier font. Not at all the same as the one appearing in your top-lefthand corner.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. it was a very small intimate group

back them

sigh

[BrotherBuzz]

9. LOL, my old username had unread mail!!!!

Blast from the past!!!!

[DemInDistress]

10. hate mailbag,,,I was hysterical see

I wasn't here in 2001 nor did I even have a computer,those freepers were angry sick people...today their even
wackier,hateful,and stupid,fools they are....

[Syncronaut Seven]

11. A simple truth from the first hate mailbag!

DU RESPONDS: It's true, we do live under a rock. Unfortunately for you, we've got a bitchin' T-1 connection down here, and we're in a very, very bad mood.




Works for me! :evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

13. LOL!

I love it.

Nice rock, too. :)

[BuyingThyme]

12. My cookie isn't working. Shenanigans!

[BuyingThyme]

14. A sign of the times: Tweety is referred to as "Matthews" and

xray s's OP is titled HARDBALL; Matthews calls the chickenhawks bluff.

We were innocent little children back then.

[mdmc]

17. yet folk still watch him...

[SoCalDem]

18. Link to All the old DU pages.. back to 2001

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4573432