The DU Lounge

Alright, 🚨 my often talky self....😉

I'd been on-line since late 1995. A few times first at a net cafe;a then by accident early '96: while heading to the magazine refence section at a major library - I glanced up and happened to see ? the Netscape Logo on the same computer also used to look up books! Oh?!

I'd been through a rough patch earlier in '95, and while the local papers were educating the public about The World Wide Web later that year, and in '96 - I'd missed the mention, or hadn't thought about the Library as providing the service!

I was looking up all kinds of interests on the library's computers when I decided In 2001 several months after GWB was in office one day to look around for Democratic leaning sites, though not the official party site, although I was always a registered Democrat.

Also somewhat soon after that in '01 I found a Big 24/7/365 Day Net Cafe that didn't cost much per hour compared to others I'd used. So I think I put in "Democrat" and among the answers was DU. But bc I didn't have a computer at home - I gave it up, and forgot about it. Perhaps bc there wouldn't be that much time at a library computer to really dive in to the site. Short 1 hrs or less sessions.

Fast Foward to 2016.
I'd been on line steadily through the library for nearly 2 decades. Thrilled when I got my first tablet, and the library had started to provide free internet access for tablets, smartphones at some point. For instance, I partly followed Hillary being nominated at the Dem convention on my tablet at my library!

Final Jump in 2020!
While on a music group site w off topic political sub forum: I was annoyed not enough attention was being paid to a particular memorial event.

Suddenly "Democratic Underground" popped amazingly out of the mists of my memory; 19 years later!
Oh?
Nahhh.....they couldn't still be around, could they??

Hahahahaaaa, surprise! Survived, and thrived!
I jumped in the very next day!
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