Posted on 11/26/2017 1:35:54 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas
It's an anniversary of sorts -- and should be something of a national holiday.
Twenty years ago, Jim Robinson became FReeper #1 on this website, and we all are much the better for it.
I found FreeRepublic.com via my news aggregator at the time, The Drudge Report. Quickly I lost interest in that site in favor of this my new home page.
I found that Freerepublic is just not a news aggregator, but an intelligence aggregator. Thanks to the overwhelming diversity of interests amongst the FReeper community, we can go from the smallest subatomic particles to the vastness of inter-gallactic space in only a few posts. And from pottery shards from the earliest human civilizations to the flying car concepts from the day after tomorrow.
Thought provoking discussions about history, religion and even cold fusion and train travel has intrigued us over the past twenty years.
And those are just some side benefits to one of the best sites anywhere for the sharing of conservative and patriotic ideas.
Thanks, Jim, for following through on the glimmer of your idea for this site. Happy Anniversary memories and hopes and prayers for many more anniversaries to come!
No Chikensoup? Class of 98?
Sorry, you hadn't posted on the thread at the time I ran a scan of it. It can be really neat when the script runs against a thread with hundreds of posts. I just figured an 'old timer' thread would have a lot of us old timers on it.
3/14/1998, I lurked a long time.
Texas Cowboy, giznort...
I wish I had gotten here sooner than I did, September 22, 2004!
I learned about FR from hearing on the news [probably Fox] about the fake documents that Dan Rather was pushing as real about GW’s National Guard Service.
I kept hearing FreeRepublic and a person named “Bankhead” that proved that the documents were fake. I clicked...and 260 threads and 196,236 replies later....the rest is history!
Thank you, Jim #1, for giving us this outlet and for never having ads to aggravate us! It’s been a pleasure meeting you and spending time shooting guns with you! :)
Memories PING!
Sever may be down
Has it only been 20 years?
Drudge kinda broke the ice but Jim provided a forum
I miss some of the old players.
ping if your still around
I can digest Drudge report in 20 mins, miss his radio show though...
LOL! I’ve been reading this thread and ran up on your ping. :-)
Shelion deserves a smoke as well. RIP
Everyone loves the ‘gunner. Even his kitties!
Jim may be the last of us to remember Prodigy, CompuServe and Usenet
Gentle correction: FReeper Buckhead outed Dan Rather (Biased)
Close those tags!
Post of the day!
it was Buckhead and KCTanker
Buckhead was immortal. Dan Rather was taken down.
The threads on how a selectric could do what he did was amazing. Bu By Dan.
LOL!
It might be time to cross the border. What comes of it is FReeper Lore.
LOL
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