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Happy Anniversary, FReeper One
N/A | unpublished | Oscar in Batangas

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!


TOPICS: Announcements
KEYWORDS: anniversary; donate; freerepublic; jimrob
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To: Chickensoup

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.

101 posted on 11/26/2017 7:38:47 PM PST by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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To: Lurker

3/14/1998, I lurked a long time.


102 posted on 11/26/2017 7:53:43 PM PST by tiki
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To: KC Burke

Texas Cowboy, giznort...


103 posted on 11/26/2017 7:58:10 PM PST by tiki
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To: Oscar in Batangas; Jim Robinson

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! :)


104 posted on 11/26/2017 8:02:16 PM PST by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: Oscar in Batangas; GodBlessUSA; Mrs.Nooseman; Kathy in Alaska; AZamericonnie; HiJinx; ...

Memories PING!


105 posted on 11/26/2017 8:09:22 PM PST by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: Lurker

Sever may be down


106 posted on 11/26/2017 8:12:11 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Has it only been 20 years?

Drudge kinda broke the ice but Jim provided a forum


107 posted on 11/26/2017 8:14:52 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Oscar in Batangas; concretebob

I miss some of the old players.

ping if your still around


108 posted on 11/26/2017 8:15:48 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Oscar in Batangas

I can digest Drudge report in 20 mins, miss his radio show though...


109 posted on 11/26/2017 8:17:16 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: LUV W

LOL! I’ve been reading this thread and ran up on your ping. :-)


110 posted on 11/26/2017 8:17:24 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: SheLion

Shelion deserves a smoke as well. RIP


111 posted on 11/26/2017 8:18:45 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: humblegunner

Everyone loves the ‘gunner. Even his kitties!


112 posted on 11/26/2017 8:20:58 PM PST by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Jim may be the last of us to remember Prodigy, CompuServe and Usenet


113 posted on 11/26/2017 8:21:23 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: LUV W
I kept hearing FreeRepublic and a person named “Bankhead” that proved that the documents were fake.

Gentle correction: FReeper Buckhead outed Dan Rather (Biased)

114 posted on 11/26/2017 8:22:16 PM PST by IncPen (Put the 'climate researchers' under oath and have them explain their findings. Then we'll talk.)
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To: mylife

Close those tags!


115 posted on 11/26/2017 8:22:26 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: ransomnote; Jim Robinson

Post of the day!


116 posted on 11/26/2017 8:22:54 PM PST by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: LUV W

it was Buckhead and KCTanker


117 posted on 11/26/2017 8:25:04 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: IncPen

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!


118 posted on 11/26/2017 8:25:11 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: mylife

It might be time to cross the border. What comes of it is FReeper Lore.


119 posted on 11/26/2017 8:26:40 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: eyedigress

LOL


120 posted on 11/26/2017 8:27:22 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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