***vanity*** When is FreeRepublic.com's anniversary?

10-04-07

[InvisibleChurch]

Is there a specific date FreeRepublicans celebrate FR's birth? Or is there a day it ought to be celebrated (besides every day)?

[Jet Jaguar]

thanks.

[Kevmo]

I was here back when you had to close your html’s!
***I remember the lost italians... I STILL don’t trust HTML. The way I see it, when HTML tags are embedded in MSWord or whatever the most common Word Processor of the day , then I’ll start using them again. I see you mastered the art of putting in icons.

[bannie]

Did any of you guys also “chat” in Washington Watch over on Yahoo? Some of the names in here were also used over there.

[Political Junkie Too]

When I showed up in 2003.

N00b. ;-)

-PJ

[Kevmo]

Deep in the Hurtgen Forest?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Good question bannie...I too am a '99 (but we don't look a day over '03) but I really am an mid '98...but I lost my first 8 months, 10 months...who knows. Now I have name issues (why did I put 'mom' in my tag?) would rename...but don't want to lose my 'gravitas.'

[Exit148]

Thanks for that, Jim.

Any chance of seeing the first threads after registration? I read them years ago and it is interesting to see just how discussions went, at that time.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I’ll see your Ash, and raise you an Eschoir...

[sibb1213]

I heard about FR from Drudge and Neil Boortz. I signed in March 1998. Remember the blue dress.........! It was
so good to swap stories during the Toon’s years.

[Kevmo]

Disenfranchised Freeper been here 6 years 4 months 3 million hours, 12 days and a leap year
My highly evolved gray matter | 12/31/04 | JoeSixPack1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/1311585/posts

Posted on 12/31/2004 7:26:52 AM PST by JoeSixPack1

[CatoRenasci]

I was here before the '96 election... I found FR from the early Drudge link and pretty soon was here far more than there...but waited until early '98 to register. FR was a special place then, and is still a special, though very different, place now.

Thanks for all you do, Jim!

[Syncro]

[InvisibleChurch]

Do you mean these Italians?

Italian elite force invades Sweden by mistake

[altura]

I think sometime in October ‘97.

[altura]

No, I just looked at my own date. November 28, 1997.

Gee, I was just a kid back then.

[Kevmo]

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b6d6e3f0dcc.htm
for an example of “lose the italians” /ij

[Jim Robinson]

Try this link from the WaybackMachine:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990218120410/www.freerepublic.com/forum/twwarchives.htm

[jdm]

Well, it was your tagline for two whole posts. Thanks. :O)

Sure, it's not the best, most eloquent statement in the world - just off-the-cuff.

I just thought it would be kind of funny to have as your "mouse-over," given so many people are used to seeing the general "since XX-XX-XXXX" tag.

:O)

[PennsylvaniaMom]

No, no, no. FReepers would ‘forget’ to /i off italics in their posts...so the rest of the thread would be ‘italian’ until somebody closed the tag. Then somebody else had to add ‘italians be gone’ then it had to be explained that it was italics not those of italian heritage...yada yada yada...alot of bandwith went with it :)

[Kevmo]

Yeah, what she said. It’s kinda hard to find now, though.