Posted on 03/22/2023 1:02:39 PM PDT by 4Liberty
I just want to thank Jim Robinson and everyone who works at Free Republic for 25 years of this great website.
It will be 25 years for me this coming June. I have gained daily laughs, insights, news, and camaraderie - all due to your original idea, Jim, to start this platform so many years ago. Thanks!
GOD blessed us all with this Jim Robinson fellow...
I never realized I started so close to the beginning. I assumed they’d ALWAYS been here.
No matter what, FR has been my favorite source for news since 1998.
Can’t thank you enough JRob!
Count me in on this one.
Ditto
Thank you all!
Good job EVERYBODY! What a ride!
My first knowledge about Free Republic came on November 3rd, 1998.
I was at a victory celebration of a candidate for a US Senate seat, (Peter Fitzgerald) in a hotel in Schaumburg, IL., and a woman had a NEWSMAX yard sign that she was flashing the crowd with, that had the Free Republic url written on the otherwise blank backside of the sign. The freeping was truly done up right in grand freeper style.
This freeping struck my interest and once back at home and sitting in front of my pc, I brought up the website, and the rest as they say... is history!
I lurked for two years before getting the gumption to sign up and start contributing to the process. Free Republic was a red pilling with a flow rate comparable to a four-inch diameter stiff fire hose coming off a high-pressure fire hydrant.
Yeah - what >>> he said!
Thanks aplenty to Jim, John, Chris, and the whole team! FR is the first thing I read in the morning, the last thing I read at night, and about every hour or two all day long (don't tell my boss).
It's simply the best!! God Bless y'all!!
-- Dayglored
Ditto.
Since 2000.
Was desperately looking for like minded thinkers and found them here.
Thanks, Jim and crew, for giving all of us a place to connect.
RLTW
Thanks to you all so so much for this website!
Three cheers for the Swiss Family Robinsons, hip hip hooray!!!
Good show mate!😃
Btt.
Dittos
One of the best things here, besides Jim, family and FRiends is that the format is not CONTINUALLY updated ALL THE TIME.
I appreciate the interface that remains the same. THANK YOU!
FR is my ONLY news source. I need to up my monthly autopay donation.
This thread appears to have the largest gathering of the class of ‘98 that I can remember. All thanks to JimRob
Just as soon as the latest freepathon reaches 90 percent, I will be adding a quarterly contribution.
we are another kind of family
Congrats
I found FR in 1998 from the hugie Hewitt morning show, lurked until 2001
Congratulations and thank you very much, 4Liberty!
Thank you all very much! This thread is like an old friends club, brings back a lot of great memories.
God bless,
Jim
God bless JR and tptb who runs FR.
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