Almost the same thing for me, except I was the ONLY conservative "host" in one of the cable channel's chat rooms!
One day somebody in there mentioned (mocked) FR and I went looking........found FR from the Whitewater link that use to be on Drudge!
I lurked for about a hour and couldn't believe how lucky I was to find everybody. I immediately registered as "Stalker" on July 20, 1998, (because I couldn't use Howlin because I used it at the chat room and the channel didn't want us out using those names!) and have been here ever since (since 1999 as Howlin though, when the chatroom and I had a difference of opinion!)
And I've been here since, driving liberals AND malcontents and unappeasables crazy!
Think of the money we've saved on psychotherapy!
here's one to bookmark
http://clinton6.nara.gov/1998/10/