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Re commentary from generally about the significance of historical implications of contemporaneous work on Q being preserved because of Jim Rob’s insulating of FreeRepublic as a private entity thereby shielding us while other boards are being brought down.

texokie chimed in with an admonition for all to save whatever their technical capabilities allow them to do.
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USMCfrom79to83 made this comment:

This is a very good point!
I firmly believe that when this all breaks, these archives - the work of We The People in the form of FreeQs and Chans, will be held to the light and examined as a historical work.

I believe history will view this effort in a similar light to “Rosie the Riveter.” I think this work will be remembered...

May God Bless the United States

May God Bless Us

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That is amazing to contemplate, USMC79-83. I have a family member who actually WAS a “Rosie Riveter.” She left her small town home and went to the big city and put together airplanes while her hubby was serving in the Pacific as a Marine.

I am not very advanced technologically. What I do, I do well, but I know how very limited my abilities are! Last winter and spring, my capabilities amounted to having just learned how to use a thumb drive! Q had said “save offline” so that was something I could try that seemed within reach.

To learn the process, I started saving to my little thumb drive most of my Q research. I lost some of my files after my computer crashed last spring, but I still had the bulk of it in my thumb drive. Other important files on other subjects than Q were lost which, of course, I wish now I had put on thumb drive. - Like Forstchen’s book title, “One Second After” reminds us, we realize one second after it can’t be changed what we should have done!

But among those files saved on that little experimental thumb drive were the original Oracle publications, all nicely gathered together in one bunch. When bagster and mairdie and ransomnote were putting together our thread header with the nice little grid links, I was able to contribute those Oracle documents to their work which I had saved - thereby allowing us to avoid a lot of tedious work to try to extract them from combing through each of the threads. LOL! We only just NOW might be getting our Heading Grid with Oracle links up and going if we’d had to do that! In case you had not noticed, these Q threads are LONG!.....and each and every post is precious - so I’m not complaining!

So that policy / admonition by Q to “save things offline” has already paid off for me. I lost some - but saved what I was able.

Of course, after that debacle, I was initiated into the wonders of “backups” and “external hard drives.” (Coulda, woulda, and shoulda will drive you crazy....don’t go there!)

I know that in the past I saved to my thumb drive certain web pages which I knew needed preserving. Alas, after the Crash, I went back to some of them - in particular the earlier Q drops, and learned that what I had saved were the web archives, and that when I went to the link, that which I thought I had archived as an original version was now the updated version. Oh well. Live and learn, right?

Sometimes I can save things I’m interested in as a pdf document as opposed to a changeable web archive - but I’m still very hazy on how to achieve it consistently, and so mostly I am not able to do it.... but to overcome that, I do the tedious cut and paste onto a word processing document. It’s what I can do, so I do it. I get the stuff which seems important, but often regret later that I saw something and did not grab it. *sigh* So I miss them. But as for all of us, there are only so many hours of the day..... and family activities, and actual LIVING which needs to be LIVED are a very important part of those hours! - I would not miss those either!

Just a month or so ago, I learned about how to do screen shots - but have not yet started using them systematically.

I have heard other FReeQs mention the stratospheric (to me) methods they employ to save entire Q drop files, or LexiQon versions, and even (I hope!) our Q threads!

That is why I admonish: save as much as you can, to the level of your ability....and as you are able, increase that capability!

And in full agreement with you, USMC79to83,

GOD BLESS AMERICA!