[MonroeDNA]

Dude, you are the official first poster!

I knew you went way back, but didn't know that far back.

Prodigy--wow! You are way before me. That had to be early '97 or late '96 even.

[Jim Robinson]

I think you can see it on the Way Back Machine on Alexa.com. I set up the original FreeRepublic.com website in Sept of '96 and installed an experimental forum soon after. We only had a few posts to it on a test basis. Ken Cook and I believe Ron Doughty and JustAmy may have posted to that original forum. I wrote the original version of the Free Republic forum during the last month or so of '96 and opened it to the public in January '97 (to the best of my recollection).