Congrats mlmr/Chickensoup! I remember your original screen name. Nice to see all these ‘old’ screen names from 1998! I too am a 20 year FReeper from April 1998, also with a slight discrepancy on my NewLand anniversary date - it shows Feb 1999 - when I changed my original screen name, because someone else had a very similar name as my original and they were very disruptive!
I ‘retired’ from FR 7+ years ago. There are lots of great memories here, and I’ve been nostalgic about that lately, thus I’m here lurking.
A few personal favorite moments - I was in China during the 2000 election debacle - and was able to get onto FR to find out what was really happening. Many sites were blocked.
I was online during the big expose of Dan Rather and the fake memo by buckhead and KC Tanker and that was exciting!
In 2005 I was a caller on the Rush Limbaugh show, identified myself as a FReeper, and was honored with a thread about it by Clint N. Suhks and also by many on the ‘Rush Live’ thread.
Eagles up to all of you who were here in the last century and continue to FReep with honor!
Gosh I cannot remember your old name but I remember that you changed it because of a disrupter. Funny what we remember.