I found Free Republic on Drudge in ‘99. It was called Whitewater at that time. Charter member, twice kicked out.
That’s right, the link to FR from Drudge was called Whitewater. The only reason I ever looked at Drudge was that Rush mentioned him as the guy who broke the Lewinsky story. I had only had my first PC for a few months at that time.
I also had an account here. Not kicked out, but it says the username is still active but won’t let me back in. I think it is sending the recovery email to an old email account I no longer use as I never get them.