[WaterDragon]

I appreciate this post. I remember seeing an article in, I believe, Newsweek about Matt Drudge's page, and there I found a link to Free Republic. This must have been around '97 or '98, but I had to re-register once after that for some reason I've forgotten.

Anyway, it seems to me that we've got a lot to be grateful for to Jim, et al. FR is THE STANDARD for news forums, as far as I'm concerned.

I never really knew the ins and outs of how FR got started, so this is interesting, and reminds us of our own stake in the site, and responsibility to keep it going.

Thanks for pinging me, MeeknMing. This post is a keeper!

[dakine]

Yeah, this is a Historic Post, I am glad that others are learning....

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you, my FRiend. I thought this was worth spreading.

I was talking with another FReeper last night via MSN Messenger and asked if he had seen the history about how FR had evolved. He hadn't. I thought I had bookmarked it, but it wasn't there.

My thanks to all the folks that I FReep mailed last night in my search to re-locate this article ! . . .

Hey, NBC News is supposed to mention FreeRepublic tonight on their Nightly News 5:30 Central Time. FReeper Bob J !