My 26 Year Freeper Anniversary (Some Historic Freeper Posts w/comments from "89")

https://freerepublic.com/~onevike/ ^ | 2/25/24 | OneVike

[OneVike]

Too begin with, I wanted to share what was posted the day I joined, but Sadly, 99% of FreeRepublic's early history is lost due to FR losing a court case brought on by many leftists in the MSM over copyright violations due to Freepers posting full articles. Thus all the records of posts and comments prior to early September 2021 were scrubbed by court order. I do find it quit interesting that the order came down from the courts about a week before the attack on 9/11. Coincidence? Maybe, but looking back now I with all that has been happening in the last 8 years I now wonder. Anyway, I was able find some posts from April 19, 1988, which is the earliest I could retrieve information using the Way Back Machine at ( Internet Archive)

I originally planned on posting this last year on my 25th anniversary, but totally flaked out. Then I promised myself I would post it on my 26th anniversary. Well, I'm a few days late. Time seems to get away from me lately. So I I'm just touting my 26 year Freeper Birthday. Yup, the birth of my name OneVike. It was around 6:00 pm or so, not long after I got off work. I had heard of FreeRepublic from Rush earlier at work. Wrote down the name and looked it up on the web. After I found it, I liked it joined the forum. Well, the rest is Freeper history. It was February 22. 1998 and I was still living in Chico CA, about 100 miles northeast of Sacramento on I-99. Chuck State university is the college there. Me my wife and her family all escaped the state in May 2019 and now live in Payette iD as refugees.

If interested you can check out my Freeper profile paget, which has many things I put together with menus and all using the HTML I learned in the early years of FR. Back in the days when HTML was your friend. Back in the day, if you failed to close an HTML code, the rest of the comments were effected by it until some one came along and closed the tag in their comment. Awww, the fond memories of the old days. My profile also links to my my website (The Reason For My Faith) if your interested in checking it out.

We have come a long way since February "98". As I stated, I learned of FreeRepublic from Rush Limbaugh so I was I was already a student of the EIB university. I had been listening to Rush Limbaugh every day at work for almost 11 years by then. About a year before he went national in 1988 I used to catch him on KNBR radio out of Sacramento. I must admit, I was blessed in that the guy I worked for, David Salisbury, was a hard core Christian conservative who played Rush every day in the shop of his small business. Sadly I and countless million like me were forced to graduat upon the death of the "Great One."

I joined when I was 42, and today at 67 I look back at those years with fond memories. I learned much through the years. Not just from Rush, but from the hundreds of thousands of Freepers who have trudged through the halls of freeRepublic through the years. Like many of you, I lost many friends along the way whom I learned to love and respect, both women and men. Today we stand upon the shoulders of those who came before us, and if FRee Republic lasts, there will be newbies who will stand upon our shoulders as they continue the task of carrying the torch of freedom by taking on the Deep State establishment .

Often times I peruse Free Republics Memorial Wall and take time to remember those former giants who helped make this the number one conservative political forum on the World Wide Web. I would name some, but there are too many, and I would be insulting those I forgot to mention. I suggest everyone take a moment by following the link below to show your respect to those great men and women. Members who, if they could see America today, would be shedding tears for the country they loved.

Free Republic Memorial Wall

Finally, I would like to thank everyone, even those I seldom get along with, for being part of this 26 year ride. I look forward to the future with hopes and prayers that Free Republic will be around for many more years. Before I finish I want to remind everyone to help the cause by sending a donation to help keep this place free for those who come after us. Let's all ensure that this great forum will continue being a place for those who, like us, were once looking for a place they could join and mingle with like minded conservatives who still love and fight for the America we love.

Thanks for your time,
God bless Jim & John Robinson for creating this amazing forum, God bless America, and dear Lord Jesus come quickly.

I hope you enjoy the trip to the past with the following links to old Freeper Posts with comments. A treasure I found using the Way back Machine.

Remembering Waco: Where's the Outrage?
Reply To: Peggy    Posted By: aladyjfw
3142 04/19/98 07:06:12

Black Ribbon Bumper Stickers
Reply To: bluedevil    Posted By: Bugbear
3141 04/19/98 07:04:31

MOMENT OF TRUTH
Reply To: freereb    Posted By: thorn11cav
3140 04/19/98 07:02:36

YOU DON'T SUPPOSE we could------
Reply To: BADJOE    Posted By: Bugbear
3139 04/19/98 07:00:55

BLACK HELICOPTERS ARE REAL!
Reply To: Rodger Schultz    Posted By: black cloud
3132 04/19/98 06:21:15

FreeRepublicers: YOUR GRAIL HAS LANDED -- ALL THE MINDFOOD YOU NEED IS RIGHT HERE!
Reply To: freereb    Posted By: Cerruti
3125 04/19/98 05:08:41

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME/GORE'S MEASLY $353 NO MATCH FOR BUSH OR QUAYLE
Reply To: Tommyboy    Posted By: DB
3124 04/19/98 05:07:07

MOMENT OF TRUTH
Reply To: freereb    Posted By: DB
3118 04/19/98 04:28:36

Jail to the Chief
Reply To: Peggy    Posted By: BD
3112 04/19/98 03:52:40

EX-AGENT OPENS NEW DOOR INTO PREZ PROBE
Reply To: Steven W.    Posted By: Txtruth
3111 04/19/98 03:52:13

No Room for User on Device
Reply To: jrewing    Posted By: Jim Robinson
3097 04/19/98 03:18:16

Couple plans to take on FDIC and banking industry
Sweeney's fight back!    Posted By: patriot76
3095 04/19/98 03:15:36

Creators Syndicate Drops Arianna Huffington from Lineup
Reply To: Brian Mosely    Posted By: CodeAgent
3093 04/19/98 03:12:14

Panel Chairman Threatens Contempt Citations For Hubbell, Huang
Reply To: RoarNLion    Posted By: Jim Robinson
3092 04/19/98 03:12:08

Totally Neglecting The GNP, Clintonomics Spinners Rubin and Greenspan’s Prosperous Economy Is Being Dragged Down By Record Social Spending Programs And High Balance Of Payments Deficit.
Reply To: Bob D.    Posted By: CodeAgent
3089 04/19/98 03:03:58

Bill Clinton what angers you the most
Reply To: suijuris    Posted By: Tyler C.
3088 04/19/98 03:03:33

Panel Chairman Threatens Contempt Citations For Hubbell, Huang
Reply To: Jim Robinson    Posted By: RoarNLion
3084 04/19/98 02:56:45

CLINTON APOLOGY THE USUAL SHAM
Reply To: A Whitewater Researcher    Posted By: pooper scooper
3083 04/19/98 02:56:22

EX-AGENT OPENS NEW DOOR INTO PREZ PROBE
Reply To: Steven W.    Posted By: what's up
3082 04/19/98 02:54:56

Panel Chairman Threatens Contempt Citations For Hubbell, Huang
Reply To: Jim Robinson    Posted By: LarryLied
3081 04/19/98 02:54:53

SOFTWAR website -- Clinton's espionage!
Reply To: InfoMan    Posted By: Tyler C.
3078 04/19/98 02:43:23

Soldier who refused to wear U.N. patch and beret loses appeal
Reply To: all    Posted By: imdoug
3075 04/19/98 02:40:14

The Left Wing Conspiracy collides with the Left Wing Conspiracy, both of the vast variety.
Reply To: Helen    Posted By: Jim Robinson
3062 04/19/98 02:18:39

Jail to the Chief
Reply To: Peggy    Posted By: Tyler C.
3055 04/19/98 02:04:48

Michael New holds legal briefing
Reply To: Ed Millar    Posted By: triple
3052 04/19/98 02:00:52

Woman Who Crashed F-14 Wasn't Ready to Fly
Reply To: Lugo    Posted By: Son of Liberty
3047 04/19/98 01:56:30

[Fledermaus]

I remember when FR was a bulletin board on Compuserve in the old dial up days. I was excited when I got a 1200 baud rate modem.

We’d go online, download threads and logg off. Then reply offline, log in, and post. Saved minutes.

Anyone remember SAJ?

[OneVike]

She even had a site where she chronicled all the connections of the Clintons scandals.

FReerepublic used to link to it, but she got older and tired and shabged the site to something more suitable to her slower years.

Love that woman.

[Fledermaus]

They had a server crash. Many of us had to reenroll with new names.

[freepersup]

Loves me some FREEPER humor! You devil, you. Lol.

Remember folks, comedy is best comedy when a kernel of truth is included.

Never visited Thailand.

Dubai however, was a destination, once upon a time. High five!

[OneVike]

I remember when I joined you were telling someone about it, and while I did not chime in as newbie, I was really into your description of how, as you put it then, “The Old Days Were like”.

LOL

[Jim Robinson]

Congratulations and thank you very much, OneVike!

[OneVike]

Remember when we had a sister site out of Canada we would top to, and then there was, I believe a Yahoo site that carried forums at the time.

I may be wrong on yahoo, but I remember going there when things crashed.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

2 freepers I really miss…..Commontator, and YaYa123

[OneVike]

No, thank you JIM.

I am honored you allowed me to stick around after I royally screwed up a few times.

You were well withing your right, but you were gracious to me and I am forever indebted to you.

God bless you, and your always in my prayers brother.

[dakine]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/805832/posts

Good Link..

[Albion Wilde]

Congratulations, OneVike!

[exit82]

Hi, OneVike!

I signed up in December,1998, after lurking since 1997 and attending in person the March for Justice on October 31, 1998 in DC.Protested with the DC Chapter in 1999 and 2000 at the White House.

Fun times.

[OneVike]

Oh I got you. I was saved the trouble obviously.

I know that happened from time to time.

[freepersup]

REPRESENTING!

[OneVike]

Thanks much.

Great thread. I am bookmarking it for a late night read from my phone with my head on a pillow

Not something we could do back in the day.

[Billthedrill]

Happy FRanniversary, and it doesn’t have to be on the exact day after all these years. Feller can’t remember everything. Like where I put my glasses...

[OneVike]

Thank you.

This is truly better than a birthday with my physical family.

Sadly, most are liberals so we don’t get along much.

So this is a true blessing.

[OneVike]

Sadly I missed all the get together, because my wife has never been able to travel well, I have always been needed around home. So I vicariously lived through the many Freepers who attended them.

[fidelis]

Congratulations, OneVike. I've been here since 2002, so I'm a newbie compared to you.

The thing I miss most was the old Friday Funnies humor thread. Sometimes there were these hilariously long threads of jokes, memes, gifs and just wise-guy remarks that kept me chuckling all day.

[Sawdring]

I enjoy seeing and old name on an old thread and then I click on their name to see their born on date and then search out their last post before they got banned or just left.