Posted on 09/18/2004 2:42:30 PM PDT by nwrep
The ongoing controversy over the fake CBS documents and the prominent role played in shedding the light on this by Freerepublic.com has caused an unprecendented surge in new memberships on the website.
Thursday, September 16, 2004 should be remembered as a landmark day for this website. On that day, more new users signed up on Freerepublic.com than on any single day before.
Click here for a running tally of daily new signups that the website keeps.
The 390 users signed up on the website eclipsed sign-up spikes caused during other newsworthy events, such as the Florida recount during the 2000 election, and the events of September 11, 2001.
The name of the website has been publicized widely in many media outlets as the source of the first revelation that the CBS memos were forgeries.
According to web traffic tracking site Alexa, Freerepublic.com has shown a remarkable increase in traffic over the last few weeks, as shown below:
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HELP!!!
Someone's breaking my computer. I've been getting lovely white pages. EVERY site I go to. I cleaned the cookies, etc., I rebooted. Blah blah blah.
Suddenly, it came back up. Then, I couldn't get in here...white page again. Google came up. I finally got in, linked from Google.
I found someone's got a page, under construction, called Free Republic.org....in case Jim's interested.
Any ideas what's going on???
LOL!!!!!!!
A bunch of houses chased you down the freeway?
Yowsers.......!!!!!!! :)
I found it...I forgot how to do it......so that means you did not have two birthdays this year?...LOL....shucks, that would have made you two years older than me.....I got a couple of toasters I don't need.....hmmmmm?
Yep. Two flippin' years older. At this stage of the game, I don't WANT two a year!!!
It'll get worse.
OK - Who's in charge of the Fr.com store? We need official Freeper pajamas!!
This is NOT what I said, I must respectfully decline.
I had suggesting manipulating the picture in Photoshop.
Please check my original post!
Pretty much! Hahhahahhahahhaaaaaaa!
I was getting that on my work 'puter last night every now and then.
Thanks...at least I know it's not just me.
Not that THAT helps either of us. I'd sure like to know what's up...
Ah, but some of those signer's on are Media types who don't want to be left in the dust.... ...again!
So, with thanks to Jim and John Robinson, and a hat tip to Buckhead, allow me to welcome our new members from the Ministry of Truth!
After all, as they say at CBS News and the New York Times:
WAR IS PEACE!
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY!
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I am a broken record tonight, but thank you very much for the informative list of FR lore and terms!
My sincere apologies. The idea of the halloween mask was mine.
Says it is under construction.
Is your computer working now?
Yep. It's working. If it weren't, I'd be staring at a white screen.
And....I'm not even GOING to that site...I don't know who/what it is.
It will be interesting to see what it becomes. Glad you are back with us.
Thanks! I may voluntarily leave y'all for a bit and clean the sty up. AND do some paperwork...(blech).
A peaceful and blessed evening to you.
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