Markos started Daily Kos on May 26, 2002 (named after his Army nickname, rhymes with “prose”), and continue to maintain the site from Berkeley, California. In its first year, Daily Kos attracted over 1.6 million unique visits and about 3 million pageviews. Nowadays, it receives about 12 million unique visits per month. He is a Gulf War veteran, and a graduate of Northern Illinois University (majors in philosophy, political science and journalism) and the Boston University School of Law.