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Posted on 01/31/2007 7:17:49 PM PST by festus

So how far back does the Free Republic archive articles and how can I go back and find some of the first threads that started the whole thing off ?

It struck me I've hung out for a while and it was well established when I joined.

Be fun to see what we were focused on day one. For me anyway.


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To: Howlin

Yours says 23,612? July 99....I thought you made a typo.


141 posted on 01/31/2007 7:59:40 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: DCPatriot

Hey, heck yes! I learned to drive in a GTO.


142 posted on 01/31/2007 8:00:11 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: Mr.Unique

Good to see you! :0)


143 posted on 01/31/2007 8:00:56 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: quidnunc
I believe that all the early Free Republic threads were deleated as part of the settlememt of a lawsuit by the LA Times and WaPo.

I first found FR sometime in mid-1997. Lurked for awhile and first joined up around late 1997 or early 1998. I've always used the same screen name here. For some reason I never did figure out, my early registration kept getting reset every now and again, and I'd have to re-register with a different password. I finally "stuck" sometime in 1999. I don't think everyone of the earliest FR registrants had this experience, though.

144 posted on 01/31/2007 8:01:12 PM PST by Wolfstar ("A nation that hates its Horatios is already in grave danger of losing its soul." Dr. Jack Wheeler)
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To: Dog Gone

True but you also learn your audience.No one who posts on this forum is unread.You might be misunderstood but you are read.Type one word everyone loves you and type another word everyone hates you.


145 posted on 01/31/2007 8:01:12 PM PST by fatima
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To: Torie

You are http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=21330

Click your name, then forum.


146 posted on 01/31/2007 8:01:15 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: IronJack
I didn't have any tags open.

I know. I don't know what made me remember that.

I wonder how many of us remember how screwed up a thread could become when someone forgot to close the HTML tags on their italics, bold, marquee, blinking text?

147 posted on 01/31/2007 8:02:01 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: Wolfstar

I did.


148 posted on 01/31/2007 8:02:24 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: festus
FreeRepublic went way, way back before BBS. There was a time where you had to drive down a specific street and see if there was a chalk mark on a telephone pole, which meant go to a place and look under a rock for mimeographs folded into a ziplock.

I can't talk anymore about this.

They, they're .....watching.
149 posted on 01/31/2007 8:02:30 PM PST by Leisler (REAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS WALK.)
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To: festus

Came on F/R in 1996 through Drudge....Signed up in 97....Was using an old WebTv w/no cut and paste. Had to run out and buy newspapers....cut the articles out and type them in. What the hell....I was retired and didn't have anything else to do.. :>)


150 posted on 01/31/2007 8:03:24 PM PST by Jay Howard Smith (Retired(25yrsNCO)Military)
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To: Torie

Click on my name in this post (at the bottom) and then click on IN FORUM; it will be beside my name in the URL bar.

You are 21330.


151 posted on 01/31/2007 8:04:08 PM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: festus

Good question, and fun thread! I have learned a lot about FR history.

I found out about FR from Drudge in November of 2000, you know, the days of the recounts that wouldn't stop? I lurked for a long time, too scared to post, but was overjoyed that there was a site where others felt the same way I did. Those days I mostly read The Dose Threads. I finally got past my fears and joined and started posting in December of 2001.


152 posted on 01/31/2007 8:04:24 PM PST by Theresawithanh (Growing old isn't so bad, especially when you consider the alternative!)
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To: Leisler

LOL. I like your sense of humor.

( You were joking right ? ;-)


153 posted on 01/31/2007 8:04:28 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: DCPatriot

I came in July of 1998 under another nick because I was working for another "chat room" that wouldn't let me use Howlin over there and over here, too.


154 posted on 01/31/2007 8:04:53 PM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: onyx

how do you get your number?


155 posted on 01/31/2007 8:05:08 PM PST by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: IronJack

Who was the nut-case woman who thought that FEMA or the Pope was after her?


156 posted on 01/31/2007 8:05:10 PM PST by chesty_puller (USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71 US Army 75-79 3d Inf Old Guard)
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To: mylife

I have a Brother- everyone is taking a nap on that thread.Wanna fight.


157 posted on 01/31/2007 8:05:13 PM PST by fatima
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To: Howlin

Yup double yuk. HLL, one of my minor (overcome) nemesis's here


158 posted on 01/31/2007 8:05:14 PM PST by Syncro
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To: fatima
you also learn your audience.No one who posts on this forum is unread.You might be misunderstood but you are read.Type one word everyone loves you and type another word everyone hates you.

Aint that the truth? Thankfuly FR is a huge forum now and there are many places to find like minded folks while avoiding the flamewars of certain topics. The smokey backroom comes to mind

159 posted on 01/31/2007 8:05:42 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Howlin; onyx

I see now. Thanks.


160 posted on 01/31/2007 8:05:44 PM PST by Torie (The real facts can sometimes be inconvenient things)
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