FR Pioneers Check in...1997-98 Sign up Dates Only

FR | 9-27-04 | Bob J

[Bob J]

I was having an argument with another FReeper about how many of the old timers were still around. I tell people there is a FReeper vsyndrome and that most of them are still around, they just don't post much anymore.

Here is your chance to put these rumours to rest. Chime in and let everyone know you still are alive and kicking. Post your registration number if you know it.

[newslady]

My signup date was October 17, 1998. My sister (Patriot1) and I participated in the March for Justice (1998) in DC, which called for Clinton's impeachment. We also participated in the Judgment Day rally in DC (1998) and the dinner honoring the House of Representatives managers of the Clinton impeachment in DC (1999).

In March, 2003 Patriot1 and I also organized a "Rally for America" attended by over 1,000 people. We credited Free Republic as a sponsor of this rally, for which we received much publicity in the local media. We also organized four other informal Rallies for America in March and April 2003.

Yes, some of us old-timers are still around.

[hispanarepublicana]

Hispanarepublicana's (member since Nov. 2000) TRIBUTE TO 1997-1998 FReeper Signups (compiled from a previous post)

In MY day, we didn't have these automatic-shmiggledeeschmatic html tag closers. If you wrote in double-sized red italics, EVERYBODY wrote in double-sized red italics, and they'd yell at you and push you in the snow and steal your shoes.

 

And weeeeeeee LIKED it.

And, VANITIES!? Baaaahhhhhh!

In MY DAY, we didn't Haaaave Vanities!

 

If you couldn't source the story, you didn't post it! We didn't have nice AdminMods that tried to TEACH the Newbeeees!!! If they didn't like what you posted, they sent you to Chat, where your head would explode and your eyeballs would fry!

 

Aaaaand weeeee LIKED IT!!!

 

And nobody knew who we were!  Record numbers of Newbeeee--schmigglty-schmewbies posting threads? Baaah!

 

In my day, you couldn't start a thread until you'd responded to several threads!!! If you tried to start a thread yourself, you'd hear ZOT, and lightning would come out of your computer screen and melt your face and clicking finger off!!!

 

And, weeeeee LIKED IT!!!

 

 

 

 

[BunnySlippers]

Well, Bob I met you, CAL, AlyGirl, BadJoe, and many old time others at a party to begin the Southern California FR group. By that time I had already had a few names .. the first was "MudFlap". I was around before there were formal registrations. So, yes, many old timers are here.

[Billie]

Waiting for Bill Barclay, Roger Schultz and Deb to check in.

And Penny, and da Pharmer, and are Scotsman and firehat still here? I remember seeing them early on, too.

#96 ~ 11-29-97 (Also posted a few times before registration became mandatory)

Hi, Deb!

[N. Beaujon]

N. Beaujon, Freeper since Aug 7, 1998. I left for many years and came back a week before the Dan Blather story broke. Happy to be part of history, twice.

Kudos to the founders who have created something extraordinary.

[The KG9 Kid]

Oh, I'm member '1926'.

[uglybiker]

...I think I stumbled in via the link at DrudgeReport.

Alot of us did around that time.

I came in around the time of the infamous 'Wag the Finger' speech.

Ah...did not hayave... sexshull relayshuns... with that woman...Miss Lewinski!

[Texican]

Jean:
I have missed your posts. You had the best posts on the fourm for a long time, but now you have dropped off. I always read you and Fishhog first.

Have a nice evening and the very best to you and yours.

Semper Fi
Tommie

[knarf]

"That's when men were men, and women were scared."

They just went over to "Fire Talk" and started their own chat room.

[weeder]

WOW! Just checked my ID # .
136!
Don't I win a hat or something?

[The Chid]

DITHF was the first big blowout we had on FR. It spawned the first anti-freepers...some of them are still active to this day.

I remember. IIRC, he/they claimed more decorations(CIB's?) than it was possible to receive.

[Bob J]

Don would be welcomed back by me in a second. He left when he thought Jim wasn't straight with him, but the fact is an attorney told Jim to keep some facts regarding the Talkspot deal private...he was just following legal advice.

Don, Jim was deep in debt and although he was geting income from the Talkspot deal, it was going to keep him out of bankruptcy and FR on the web. Time to put the past in the past. Come on home...

[jrcats]

#15998 since 11-23-98. Can't believe its been this long I've been checking out FR.

[dalereed]

You are #1926, 2/25/98

[BobS]

I was here before the software change in '97. If I remember correctly, I am #157 as someone told me. I never went and found out for myself. How do I do that again?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Drat! Missed being an "old timer" by six lousy weeks. :-(

[jwalsh07]

While I got your attention, where is the Second Quadrennial Freeper Ball?

[chesty_puller]

14577....kind of a new guy. Nov 98

[Billthedrill]

Oh, and let me remember a couple of old-timers who left us - RJayneJ and Chief Negotiator. RIP from a grateful friend. Peace...pipe...

[Czar]

Still around, but mostly just lurking now due to time constraints. Good to see so many familiar names. Just missed your cut--I believe I was 1999.