Not according to the sauce that I ran across, which is stored somewhere in my pings archive, past 1 Jan. 2025. There’s no way to leapfrog backwards without opening each page... unless I just keep hitting NEXT PAGE?
Mezvinsky might have been credited, though, with taking the photograph?
After the first “Next Page” you’ll see the URL change to something like this:
https://freerepublic.com/perl/pings?more=512254192
Manipulating the number will get you deeper into the archive without having to “Next Page” many times.
If I change more= to 502254192 (not I changed the 1 to a 0), that takes me back about a year. So somewhere in the middle is what you want to change. I think this number represents the total number of posts on FR. Could FR possibly have 512 Million posts?