I just had a reflective DU moment....

[PCIntern]

I was scanning the In Memoriam link here and went all the way back to the 2005 post about Kephra’s passing wherein a family member informed us that he died suddenly over his keyboard.

I scanned down the many many posts of condolences and recognized many many names, but only a tiny handful are still here. Almost all of these individuals were active posters heavily involved in the DU community but the vast number have left and have been gone “forever”. Yes I know why many left, but this broke over me in a nostalgic wave.

[XanaDUer2]

1. I was buds with blondeatlast. Miss her nt

[FSogol]

18. Same here. Pinboy3niner is missed too. n/t

[Scrivener7]

22. Yes. And RowdyBoy.

[Hugin]

2. I can't go to that link, Doc.

Don't get me wrong, I cherish the idea of the Memoriam.

But, I DU knew way too many of them.

[BComplex]

3. Many of the posters were zapped during the night of the long knives.

Many returned in a different form.

[notinkansas]

11. What does 'the night of the long knives' refer to?

I was a member somewhere around 2004, but probably for only about a year, so I guess I missed whatever that was.

[BComplex]

20. There was a dispute about the direction that DU wanted to go, and some felt it was

not liberal enough, while others felt it was not conventional enough (or too conspiracy theory for some people's blood), if I remember correctly. A lot of old timers were banned because of the arguments that were flying, and the rules of the board changed.

A few people went and started an alternative board that included a lot of the banned members, and some of the banned members just left and went to Daily Kos or somewhere that they were already posting on anyway, in addition to DU, and didn't come back.

Others came back and decided to learn to play nice with the new rules.

[notinkansas]

27. Many thanks - didn't know that.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

25. Yeah I was undergroundpanther before

Now I am I_Underground Panther
Because night of the long knives and a terrible memory.

Been here since close to the beginning.

Was gone for awhile had no net access.
No home.

But in spirit I never left.

Miss Swamp Rat,estimated prophet and prophetess. And Kephra,she always had the eye of Horus avatar.

[madinmaryland]

4. I forget where that is located. Could you send me a link? Thanks!

[Hugin]

5. Look down.

It's near the bottom of every page you view.

Including this.

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In Memoriam

[madinmaryland]

7. D'oh! Thanks!

[Hugin]

8. No problem-o, mad.

[TexasTowelie]

6. It's one line above the copyright notice at the very bottom of every page. nt

[ChazII]

9. Thanks for the information.

I visited the announcement that Pinto had passed. He was a DUer that understood about Neurofibromatosis or NF for short.

[blm]

10. Hurts my heart to visit there.

💔

[Maeve]

12. Some moved on, some passed on

We still remember

[Solly Mack]

13. That happens to me, too. That feeling.

[orleans]

14. ...

[wellst0nev0ter]

15. This forum is a lesser place with their absence n/t

[SergeStorms]

16. I've changed screen names 3 times...

since I joined. I was also tombstoned once, by my own foolishness, during the great Hillary/Obama primary wars, and lost about 30,000 posts. There have been name change amnesties after Bush and TFG, so I don't know if anyone retains their original DU screen name from the old days.

[PCIntern]

19. I do.

[Aristus]

21. Me too.

I’ll never change.

Neither will my user name...

[ms liberty]

17. I know. It makes me have the feels. I don't visit that page often. n/t

[BobTheSubgenius]

23. I've been here since 2003, but I used it almost exclusively as a reading opp.

and educational resource. As such, I don't remember much from those days.

I used to be a permanent admin/monitor at a very popular chat room, but....well, that was back in the antediluvian days. There was a big event there, as well, and it was known as The Purge. It started as a major schism among the people at the very top, and, oddly enough, the one who prevailed was the one that owned the DNS, the servers, admin access to same, and he was the one that wrote all the code.

I have no idea what the other faction thought they were up to. It was schoolyard crap, compared to what I understand about the NOTLK here.

[CTyankee]

24. IIRC, I joined DU on or about Election Day when I voted for John Kerry for President.

What a tragedy that was for by the next day. I was happy that we would have Sen. Kerry as our new president. Ackk...

But that put my head in the right place for the reality of our presidential elections.

[PCIntern]

26. I was up all night posting

Here that It was obvious that the election was being stolen in Ohio. It was the first all nighter I’ve pulled since school. At least the first all nighter that I spent more less vertically.