Where do I post a thread asking for help? (vanity)

[EQAndyBuzz]

If you want to get a Nuge t-shirt, the best person to ask is Chuck Norris.

[Darksheare]

And the annual haggis hunt.

[FredZarguna]

If he’s not institutionalized somewhere, I’d guess that he is now one with the twinkling stars...

[FredZarguna]

Actually, I believe that is a function of browser support. Blinking has been deprecated from browsers for a while.

[Although, MeshugeMikey still uses it...]

[FredZarguna]

Funnily enough, I was just going through some FReeper memorabilia from oh, ten years ago [give or take] the other night, and came across this clipping about the old-time FR from the Weekly News Of Tomorrow:

[Big Red Badger]

Ted Nugent ,

please pick up the White Courtesy Phone

[Darksheare]

Or hiding out “on the island” I used to hear so much about.

[BfloGuy]

Oh, for Pete’s sake. Have you ever heard of Google.

[Hot Tabasco]

I must have missed that. Seems the same to me.

Then you're obviously in the post < italians be gone > era...........It's an html thing, you wouldn't understand.

[BlueDragon]

It was about html?

You just ruined things for me.

back then I thought I had friends around here...

I don't like spaghetti

and take the French with you! (just leave the croissants)

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Mmmmmm....croissants!

[bk1000]

Is it just me, or do y’all smell ozone too?

[Big Red Badger]

The Vapors !

[Great White Buffalo]

My original handle was something like “Factional-American”. I reregistered because I has no way to access my account info, which is on an obsolete computer.

As for ebay, I am trying to choose which one of two “Ted Nugent for President” t-shirts on ebay will look cooler on a Nuge cover band member. One shirt says “Nugent for President”, the other one says “Nugent/Norris 2016.”

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ptyuza9

[Windflier]

Blinking has been deprecated from browsers for a while.

Had to look that one up.

The HTML 'blink' function worked around here until pretty recently. I'm sure you know that it was a simple command that caused text to turn off and on. I never used it much, but on occasion it was fun to use.

Are you saying that my browser doesn't recognize that command any longer?

[Windflier]

I recall the format from around 2000, and I much prefer having pages. All miltihundred replies on one page was.. Rough on the net connection. The beta version of FR, which was introduced and discarded after a server meltdown, was colorful to say the least.

I don't remember what year it was when I first clicked on a link to Free Republic, but it must have been a long time ago. I clearly remember the format looking a bit different than what we have today.

I wasn't a regular in those days, so my memory is kinda thin on that. I just remember it displayed differently than what we see now.

[GeronL]

It did look and display a little differently but it still resembled what we have now.

[Darksheare]

Hand HTML.
And if you didn’t close a tag, you were the sorriest sadsack to ever wander the void.
Lol.
The thread would devolve into bizarre italicized gibberish.
Back then, trolls took advantage of that and would leave an open tag at the end of their post.

[FredZarguna]

Are you saying that my browser doesn't recognize that command any longer?

It probably doesn't.

You can check, among many places, here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/blink

[Windflier]

if you didn’t close a tag, you were the sorriest sadsack to ever wander the void. Lol. The thread would devolve into bizarre italicized gibberish.

I've heard about that. I probably ran into one of those threads, which would have stuck in my memory as looking 'odd'.