Posted on 10/15/2001 3:37:44 PM PDT by ODDITHER
I first found Free Republic through Drudge Report. I found Drudge by listening to the White House briefing sessions who constantly told everyone how radical he was. (I knew he was my kind of people.)
To get to my point, or to make a short story long, Does anyone else remember freepin back then?
There were days you couldn't get on. When you did get on, it took forever to load the posts. There were three options. Next 10 - 50 -100 and a simple search engine. Remember the posts that said "Please don't post graphics, I can't read the posts if you do."?
Don't get me wrong, many of the improvements that have been made, are because the technology has changed. I also got a faster modem and new computer and learned how to use them.
I Would set my alarm for 5:00 am to get on while it wasn't busy. At first, I didn't post, there were self appointed post police that would tear you a new one, if you didn't hold your mouth just right. But finally, I thought, what the heck, they can't see me, they don't know me, I can take it.
Here I am ramblin on - what I wanted to do is say a great big thanks to John for the newest improvements.
Thanks John!!!
P.S.
When is it going to make my coffee in the morning?
Me too, but I think I heard about Drudge on C-span.
Deb's still around. The rest are at lucianne.com filling the roll of "self appointed post police that would tear you a new one, if you didn't hold your mouth just right."!
You mean like this one?
I don't know, I think it goes in waves. It seems like Freepers get upset and began to start yellin at each other when times are tough for conservatives. Like during the election. It also seems like Freepers come and go. You have a wave of flamers and then they get tired or banned and leave. Then you have a wave of Self-righteous religious Freepers (that is one thing I have learned, freepers should never discuss religion. We are a pretty like-minded bunch until a religion thread starts up.)
All in all, the core freepers who have learned to roll with the punches and avoid the hit and run threads, and have stuck around through all the Post Patrols and trashers, have quite a bit to say.
I think you're right. I remember going to New Jersey after reading about it on FreeRepublic and watching it at my daughter's. I couldn't wait to get it in Wisconsin. Some areas here still don't have Fox.
Yes, and I remember the various subtexts, covert agendas, disrupter alerts, long, rambling "good bye forever" posts, and the vicious internecine wars that were characteristic of that early period too.
Hey, wait a minute! Guess the "good old days" are still with us today in a certain sense. Regards,
Remember when we had our own WhiteWater link?
And I still haven't forgotten about Mena.
His home page is still around, as he was never permanently banned. So is Mojo's, I think.
Last I heard, Don Morgan was running for some sort of local Republican Party position in his area.
I remember falling in love for the very phirst time.
Gee. Ya think?? Laffin' here. The gates to the city were left open during the election and the barbarians invaded. ;-)
Ah, OneWhoKnows....such wonderful times!!
Brought fond memories of December 1998/January 1999 and the "Infamous Mojo/LadyX Happening" - need I say more??...:)))) LOLOL!!
Yes - it used to be in 1997-98 that when you posted a reply and went to the kitchen for sustenance, it would still be on the Latest Posts when you returned!
Remember when we thought it astonishing that we had 3,000 registered posters?
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