DailyKos History

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The internet blog Daily Kos was created by Markos Moulitsas Zúniga on May 26, 2002. Its focus is on political analysis, helping the electoral fortunes of the Democratic Party, and activism for left-of-center causes.

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Basic Outline

A brief outline of the history of the Daily Kos blog and website can be found on the DailyKos page.

Purpose of this page

This page has been created to link to articles about the history of Daily Kos.

Eventually, many of these articles will reside here on the dKosopedia. Some will be based on diaries that were originally written for the Daily Kos website (the current Scoop-based incarnation). Some will link directly to diaries or comments there, or on the earlier archived Movable Type site.

Some articles

  • A brief history: A story by kos on how he came to build Daily Kos, published August 5, 2004.
  • Top Comments: Markos Unleashed Edition: A diary by sardonyx listing all the posts in the first two weeks of Daily Kos, all by Markos, starting May 26, 2002.
  • Top Comments: Pre-scoop Edition: A diary by taylormattd giving some highlights from the Movable Type days of Daily Kos.
  • Top Comments: The Road to Scoop Edition: A diary by sardonyx on the events leading up to the introduction of Daily Kos on Scoop, and linking to posts and comments from the first evening of the Scoop site's existence.
  • Top Comments: Scooping Daily Kos Edition: A diary by sardonyx on the first days of Daily Kos under Scoop, and the retirement of the Movable Type site.
  • Top Comments: First Comments Edition: A diary by taylormattd reproducing the first comments made by Daily Kos denizens who later became well known, either here or at other blogs.
  • Daily Kos Front Pagers: lists all the known Daily Kos front-pagers/guest bloggers/Contributing Editors from their introduction over seven months after the creation of Daily Kos, on January 3, 2003, through the present, with links to their first post as official front pagers. Also listed are guest writers (who didn't have to actually help run the site). Based on two diaries by sardonyx: Top Comments: First Front-Page Posts, The Early Days covered Daily Kos from its start in 2002 through late 2005, and Top Comments: First Posts Edition, went from the introduction of the Class of 2006 through the introduction of the Class of 2008 in early December 2007.
  • A Brief History of DailyKos: The Great Leveling: A diary by dmsilev that examines the "growth and development of the user-diary community" of Daily Kos since the Scoop era began on October 13, 2003.
  • Top Comments: Six Years of Daily Kos: A diary by sardonyx published on the sixth anniversary of the founding of Daily Kos with various facts and figures about the blog, most highlighting the first year of publication.

Partial Timeline

  • May 26, 2002: Daily Kos first post, Day 1, 12:57pm
  • January 3, 2003: first guest bloggers announced: Billmon and Steve Soto. Billmon makes first guest post.
  • January 4, 2003: Steve Soto makes first guest post.
  • February 18, 2003: one million pages served
  • February 21, 2003: 1000th post and 30,000th comment
  • April 3, 2003: Steve Gilliard makes first guest post
  • April 11, 2003: RonK, Seattle makes first guest post
  • June 26, 2003: Post announcing Scoop as next Daily Kos platform
  • September 19, 2003: Meteor Blades and DHinMI make first guest posts
  • October 13, 2003: Scoop version of Daily Kos opened for user tryout. The next day, DNS changeover begun to move dailykos.com from Movable Type site to Scoop site
  • October 15, 2003: Movable Type version of Daily Kos inactivated; old site only available as read-only archive
  • December 10, 2003: First Cheers and Jeers diary by Bill in Portland Maine
  • January 15 and 16, 2004: Trapper John and Tom Schaller make first guest posts respectively
  • January 27, 2004: limit of two diaries per user per day instituted
  • February 7, 2004: new users must now wait 24 hours before commenting and one week before writing a diary.
  • April 2, 2004: DemFromCT and theoria make first guest posts
  • June 4, 2004: ability to edit diaries introduced
  • August 10, 2004: ability to recommend diaries introduced; Recommended Diaries list debuts
  • December 3, 2004: DavidNYC, kid oakland, and Hunter make first guest posts
  • December 4, 2004: Armando and a gilas girl make first guest posts
  • March 31, 2005: Plutonium Page makes first guest post
  • April 5, 2005: Cheers and Jeers moves to front page
  • June 24, 2005: Daily Kos 3.0 released: new site look
  • September 28, 2005: limit of one diary per user per calendar day made permanent
  • October 10, 2005: Diary tagging by users introduced
  • November 4, 2005: Adam B makes first post as featured writer
  • December 15, 2005: georgia10, SusanG, and mcjoan make first guest posts
  • December 16, 2005: DarkSyde makes first guest post
  • March 13, 2006: New comments software: editing enhancements and new ratings
  • December 1, 2006: BarbinMD, Kagro X, Devilstower, and MissLaura make first guest posts
  • March 9, 2007: Daily Kos formally becomes a group blog: Markos as Founder/Publisher, plus 15 Contributing Editors and 2 Featured Writers
  • December 3, 4, and 5, 2007: brownsox, Scout Finch, and smintheus, respectively, make first guest posts; now 18 Contributing Editors
  • January 2008: SusanG made Executive Editor of Daily Kos; announcement not made by Markos until February 7, 2008: "This happened maybe a month ago, but I never got around to announcing it..."
  • June 23, 2008: Sitemeter records the one billionth Daily Kos page view between 2:15:20am EDT and 2:15:35am EDT.

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