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Freeper History: How it all began
https://youtu.be/2gogEvEVKn4 ^ | Wife of D28Man

Posted on 06/28/2018 5:10:53 PM PDT by Wife of D28Man

For you relative newbies, here's a brief video on the (almost) first anniversary of Freeping, highlighting the inimitable and greatly missed Dr. Raoul and others.


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To: Wife of D28Man

Bump!


21 posted on 06/28/2018 5:30:44 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: Wife of D28Man

My first exposure to FR was when I was shouting down the illegal 2000 recount at the Broward County courthouse. We were literally in the street, faced off against the Gore-bots with a police enforced no man’s land in between. There was some guy who would sneak around behind the gore-bots and every time a camera would pan to them he would lift a big FREE REPUBLIC sign without them realizing it.

I guess I was FReeping without realizing it.


22 posted on 06/28/2018 5:33:39 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: kristinn

Ping


23 posted on 06/28/2018 5:34:07 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Wife of D28Man

We stand on the shoulders of giants.


24 posted on 06/28/2018 5:34:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ifinnegan

Freepers were the precursor to the Tea Party. Many times we experienced the nicest folks - “people who make the country work” according to Rush - coming up to us quietly and saying, “Thank you for doing this.” We were the beginning of people realizing they were not alone. We were the spark.


25 posted on 06/28/2018 5:35:52 PM PDT by Wife of D28Man (America is free because of the brave)
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To: ifinnegan

Freepers were the precursor to the Tea Party. Many times we experienced the nicest folks - “people who make the country work” according to Rush - coming up to us quietly and saying, “Thank you for doing this.” We were the beginning of people realizing they were not alone. We were the spark.


26 posted on 06/28/2018 5:35:52 PM PDT by Wife of D28Man (America is free because of the brave)
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To: Revel

“Coyote = Ace. that has always been my guess.”

He was indeed. Too bad he’s not around any more.

L


27 posted on 06/28/2018 5:37:46 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Lurker

Thanks for the confirmation. I assume that you mean that he has departed this world. Very sad.


28 posted on 06/28/2018 5:39:58 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Lurker; Billthedrill
Don't forget Little Lulu. Michelle Malkin used to hang out here when she was the lone conservative on the Seattle Times staff.

She wrote an article in the Times about our Puget Sound FReeper Chapter's first FReeper Meet in June 1998. I owe her a lot because the article made me sound so much smarter than I really am.

29 posted on 06/28/2018 5:42:02 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Wife of D28Man

Great video. I joined in the leadup to the 2000 election. Attended a rally in Birmingham where we heard about the “stay” on further vote counts. Whole crowd started chanting “We got a Stay!”.


30 posted on 06/28/2018 5:42:25 PM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Revel

“I assume that you mean that he has departed this world.“

I have no independent confirmation of that. Had some email back and forth with him after he left the forum, though. He never said anything specific but I’m pretty sure he was sick and not long for this world.

He was one of the best posters this forum ever had, IMO.

L


31 posted on 06/28/2018 5:42:35 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Publius

“Don’t forget Little Lulu.”

Nope.

Barbara Olsen and Tony Snow, too.

Damn, I’m old....

L


32 posted on 06/28/2018 5:43:50 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Publius

Oh, yeah. Deb and her battles with A+Bert make the heart sing. I have “urine-soaked old rummy” archived as a phrase for the ages.


33 posted on 06/28/2018 5:49:18 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Lurker

Oh, you’re one of those “newbies”!?!? :O


34 posted on 06/28/2018 5:52:41 PM PDT by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chanceh)
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To: Publius

from Rush to Drudge to FR....as soon as I got a computer with internet my life changed...when we got hi speed, it became a true blessing..


35 posted on 06/28/2018 5:55:56 PM PDT by cherry
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To: DCBryan1

I seem to remember something about closing all the tags.


36 posted on 06/28/2018 5:58:40 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Lurker

David Limbaugh.

Mark Levin.

Bill Triplett.

Others I’m sure.

Even über-RINO Hugh Hewitt would talk about and promote Free Republic.

It sure was a different time.


37 posted on 06/28/2018 6:04:42 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SpaceBar

Back before groupthink became the norm on FR.


38 posted on 06/28/2018 6:04:48 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Wife of D28Man

I lurked in 97 after finding FR on Drudge. Introduced the ‘soon to be’ Mrs Conan to FR shortly after that. Enjoyed the Whitewater/impeachment threads, and, remember watching the video the day of the impeachment vote with the Dims getting on a bus to drive to rally with Slick. I think it was a Saturday, because I was the only person at work. I had to make up time because I was taking my Dad to chemo during the week. He was there for our wedding, but, didn’t last much longer than that. FR helped me through that.

But, for some reason, I never joined until Sept 98, the day before we got married.

Go figure.


39 posted on 06/28/2018 6:05:26 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Billthedrill
Deb and her battles with A+Bert

Ah. A+bert. I remember that dude. Seems he got zotted along the way and came back as bert and wanted to get his a+ back. Not sure exactly about how that went but a+bert was a piece of work.

40 posted on 06/28/2018 6:05:30 PM PDT by plain talk
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