[Mad Dawgg]

Everyone get your comfortable jammies and your favorite beverage and help a woefully inept FReeper by reminisicng about the old days.

[Mad Dawgg]

Ping for any help you can give.

[martin_fierro]

Make sure you include a diorama for extra credit.

[dandelion]

Once upon a time there was a magical place called FreeRepublic. Bad presidents got impeached, good presidents got elected, and everybody posted fun posts all day long while dressed in pajamas. And we all lived happily ever after, except for the part where we explained to our husbands about why we were up after midnight in our nighties posting on FreeRepublic...

THE NOT END

[zarf]

some history about how Free Republic started.

Two words and two initials: Bill "BJ" Clinton.

[BookaT]

I know that this may not be exactly what your asking for but it is a great thing to use:

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

It is the wayback machine. You can see what this site looked like along time ago Dec 21, 1996. Wow!

http://web.archive.org/web/19961221165158/http://freerepublic.com/

It works for most sites. Check out how ebay and google used to look, interesting

http://web.archive.org/web/19990125084553/alpha.google.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/19990117033159/pages.ebay.com/aw/index.html


Hey maybe able to get some of Kerry's old pages that had some of his lies on them before he changed the pages

[Straight Vermonter]

Google search on history of freerepublic.

[zarf]

In fact you may want to consider FR to be a byproduct of the damage BJ Clinton's outragious behavior did and continues to do to the Democratic Party.

His antics and disrespect for the institution of the Presidency created a furious, mobilizing backlash that the left and the pundits still cannot grasp.

[willyboyishere]

Free Republic started long time ago
with a guy named Sloppy Joe.....

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no, wait....that was Mashed Potatoes....
I always get those two confused............

[CounterCounterCulture]

If you're in the mood for some humor, this is a good start...
The History of Free Republic: Freepathon Thread 29

[ArmyBratproud]

bump for interest

[Mrs Zip]

ping

[ex-Texan]

In addition, being a member of FR convinced quite a few Freepers to start their own blogs. My little news site is pretty popular. People surf in from about 63 countries world wide every month. (In fact, when we invaded Iraq, I was able to track visitors from Baghdad who logged onto my site from a Russian ISP) My disabilities required me to curtail my efforts at personal commentary. But I still spend about two hours each day posting news reports. Check my tag line.

[JoeSixPack1]

In the early days we had a lib named ASH. Dickie Morris was a freeper then also. Drudge was unknown, but linked, and then 3 years into it all we had a "March for Justice"!

(Been here since early '98, but braindead since '99)

<|:-)~~

[Jhensy]

[LibertarianInExile]

F.R. Eerepublic was born the son of poor black sharecroppers...

[feedback doctor]

Free Republic started when some guys wrote that the rights of the people to peacably assemble shall not be infringed upon.

[Fresh Wind]

Strap yourself into the Wayback machine. Go here http://www.archive.org/ and type in "www.freerepublic.com" and click the magic button.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Well first the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, and died away.
And then the Arabs came...

[TheRightGuy]

and help a woefully inept FReeper by reminisicng about the old days.

... long, long ago in a land far away ...

[PJ-Comix]

The first sighting of the Free Republic was by Ponce De Leon in 1519. However the actual first post on the Free Republic was made a few years later by DeSoto.