I had AOL too. Aside from getting me online, all I used it for was web surfing.
The Web would be so boring w/out FreeRepublic. I’ve been here since the early 2000’s under a different name. Somehow I got knocked off (not kicked off), didn’t do anything about it, but lurked for a lot of years. Than I retired a couple years ago, and was finally able to get back on, but with a different name.
Glad to be back with my favorite people in the world, my blood family, and my FreeRepublic family.
When I was working, I worked the 3-11 shift, so I was never home to watch prime-time cable news. In 2000 when Fox News called Florida for Gore before the polls closed in the Panhandle, I got pissed, and turned them off. Turned them back on, on 9/11, and continued watching on and off until Obama got elected. I couldn’t stand seeing his face on Fox News everyday so I turned it off, and never went back. I don’t watch any news programs on cable, or the internet. FR has been my go-to place to catch up on what’s going on in the world. I’ve been retired since 2003.