FreeRepublic: How it looked in 1996! 1997! 1998!

Internet WaybackMachine ^ | 10-25-01

[cgk]

Today marks the launch of the Internet Wayback Machine. An online historical archive of everything internet. More files than the Library of Congress, who also funded the feat, along with Smithsonian and others... find your old home pages, if you can! Look up deceased dot-coms!

[beowolf]

What old names?

[altura]

Sorry, short-term memory loss thing. Just know that as Edna St. Vincent Millary so aptly put it, "summer sang in me a little while ... that in me sings no more."

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Maybe my whole life has been nothing but a time warp. I keep ending up on October 25, 2001. Why???!!!

[Delta 21]

HA!!!

The day I signed up!!

www.FreeRepublic.com

I thought the internet was only for boobies and the like until I found this place.

What a bunch of radical right wing conservatives!

Thanks Jim. I feel right at home here.

[Allan]

ping

[Always Right]

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AMERICAN GOTHICS
 

Reply To: Mia T    Posted By: kassie
793 04/28/99 06:06:56 PDT

 

Twelve children, aged from seven to twelve, Killed in NATO air raid on Surdulica, Problems finding all the pieces
 

Reply To: monti8    Posted By: Texbob
792 04/28/99 06:06:50 PDT

 

HILLARY: IT'S TIME FOR EACH OF US TO SAY 'ENOUGH'
 

Reply To: soujourner truth    Posted By: borkrules
791 04/28/99 06:06:45 PDT

 

Sharpton Takes New York
 

Reply To: The Raven    Posted By: VALIN
790 04/28/99 06:06:22 PDT

 

Dallas' choice for superintendent of schools...(arrested twice for DWI)
 

Reply To: Cincinatus    Posted By: albee
789 04/28/99 06:06:21 PDT

 

Boy sues school for suspension over story about `Poland
 

Reply To: Mr_Peter    Posted By: Mr_Peter
788 04/28/99 06:06:15 PDT

 

Federal aid for funerals?
 

Reply To: laz    Posted By: bcjohnson
787 04/28/99 06:06:13 PDT

 

British Gun Violence????
 

Reply To: uncbob    Posted By: ParrotsUp
786 04/28/99 06:06:00 PDT

 

Boy sues school for suspension over story about `Poland
 

Reply To: Buffalo Bob    Posted By: witch
785 04/28/99 06:05:58 PDT

 

Winning the Info War
 

Reply To: Boblemagne    Posted By: metalbird1
784 04/28/99 06:05:45 PDT

 

Dallas' choice for superintendent of schools...(arrested twice for DWI)
 

Reply To: All    Posted By: vetwife
783 04/28/99 06:05:36 PDT

 

To all the girls I've loved before!
 

Reply To: gonzo    Posted By: Pequod
782 04/28/99 06:05:35 PDT

 

Boy sues school for suspension over story about `Poland
 

Reply To: DH    Posted By: Mr_Peter
781 04/28/99 06:05:24 PDT

 

HILLARY'S USELESS POPULARITY
 

Reply To: Mind-numbed Robot    Posted By: helzxpress
780 04/28/99 06:04:42 PDT

 

Mel Gibson, Aussie-American-Celtic Patriot
 

Reply To: kennewickman    Posted By: basil
779 04/28/99 06:04:28 PDT

 

British Gun Violence????
 

Reply To: ParrotsUp    Posted By: uncbob
778 04/28/99 06:04:12 PDT
 

[Howlin]

Black background?

Look here:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freerepublic.com

And don't you remember all the MOANING and GROANING when Jim would make the least little "tweak" to the web site?

[Howlin]

What have you done here? LOL.

[Angelwood]

Bump for a look back at FR's history -- later!

[Syncro]

This old stuff is cool!

Last Updated December 15, 1996

"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

-- Abraham Lincoln
-- Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863.

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Starr: "Foster Suicide"

The Most Dangerous Man in Washington

Behind the scenes with Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr -- the quiet but deeply ambitious lawyer who's on the trail of the 'Clinton scandals'

Starr has resolved one matter: the Foster suicide. NEWSWEEK has learned that Starr has decided, after an exhaustive examination of the forensic evidence, that the White House lawyer in fact shot himself at Fort Marcy Park, Va. That is the same conclusion reached by the Park Police and by Robert B. Fiske Jr., Starr's predecessor as the Whitewater special prosecutor.

full story

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[Howlin]

Is that you? :-)

[Syncro]

No that is Lincoln.

My hat has a logo on it.

LOL

[Howlin]

ROFLMAO!

[onyx]

I couldn't operate a computer until '99 --- in '98, I still had WebTV.......LOL.

[BigSkyFreeper]

At this time in 1996, I was strictly using Juno Mail. The software itself was on a single 3.5 inch floppy disk, and Juno encouraged that the disk be passed around to family and friends. I happened to get it from a friend. Installed it. By March of 1996, the local phone company started their ISP operation, and that's when I was introduced to the other elements of the internet (WWW, FTP, Telnet, Gopher, IRC, e-mail, etc.), I went from 28,800 baud to a blazing fast 56k, and I haven't looked back since. Along the way, I've been on the old MSNBC Opinion Board, and got introduced to FR in late 2001, and the rest as they say, is history.

[BIGLOOK]

Oh Lord, my boat is so small and thy sea is so big!

Glad to have such a big family, Jim. But the origins lie in Common Sense which offends some and appeals to many.



70,000 huh? Get 'em to cough up a buck each and do away with Freepathons!

[Allegra]

Were you logged in back in 1996?

I'm still not logged in.

[NittanyLion]

Wow, this is an old thread...I can't believe I've been here over 6 years.

[mc5cents]

I wonder how many here remember the Prodigy Whitewater Board. I migrated over to here when Prodigy went under. I was a lost soul for a while until I discovered FreeRepublic. Thanks Jim!

[Cvengr]

I remember surfing the site while researching the Friends of Bill list back in the late 90s. A great service which has become an institution.