Funny you should ask...
I was once going to encourage FR mod’s to auction off a (previously banned) 11/28/97 sign-on date ID for $30K on eBay.
I would have bid and even used “Buy It Now.”
:O)
PS: Don’t be fooled by the infamous 11/28/97 sign-on dates.
The forum apparently (granted, I wasn’t born yet) started sometime in mid to late 1996 ... around the time I was but just a fetus and when Matt Drudge was petitioning the tooth fairy.
I remember finding Free Republic from a link at the Drudge Report.
Matt Drudge is the tooth ferry
I just went by JR’s “since” date.
Like I said, just a guess.
Not sure what I “asked”.......
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