Posted on 01/31/2007 7:17:49 PM PST by festus
So how far back does the Free Republic archive articles and how can I go back and find some of the first threads that started the whole thing off ?
It struck me I've hung out for a while and it was well established when I joined.
Be fun to see what we were focused on day one. For me anyway.
Yours says 23,612? July 99....I thought you made a typo.
Hey, heck yes! I learned to drive in a GTO.
Good to see you! :0)
I first found FR sometime in mid-1997. Lurked for awhile and first joined up around late 1997 or early 1998. I've always used the same screen name here. For some reason I never did figure out, my early registration kept getting reset every now and again, and I'd have to re-register with a different password. I finally "stuck" sometime in 1999. I don't think everyone of the earliest FR registrants had this experience, though.
True but you also learn your audience.No one who posts on this forum is unread.You might be misunderstood but you are read.Type one word everyone loves you and type another word everyone hates you.
You are http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=21330
Click your name, then forum.
I know. I don't know what made me remember that.
I wonder how many of us remember how screwed up a thread could become when someone forgot to close the HTML tags on their italics, bold, marquee, blinking text?
I did.
Came on F/R in 1996 through Drudge....Signed up in 97....Was using an old WebTv w/no cut and paste. Had to run out and buy newspapers....cut the articles out and type them in. What the hell....I was retired and didn't have anything else to do.. :>)
Click on my name in this post (at the bottom) and then click on IN FORUM; it will be beside my name in the URL bar.
You are 21330.
Good question, and fun thread! I have learned a lot about FR history.
I found out about FR from Drudge in November of 2000, you know, the days of the recounts that wouldn't stop? I lurked for a long time, too scared to post, but was overjoyed that there was a site where others felt the same way I did. Those days I mostly read The Dose Threads. I finally got past my fears and joined and started posting in December of 2001.
LOL. I like your sense of humor.
( You were joking right ? ;-)
I came in July of 1998 under another nick because I was working for another "chat room" that wouldn't let me use Howlin over there and over here, too.
how do you get your number?
Who was the nut-case woman who thought that FEMA or the Pope was after her?
I have a Brother- everyone is taking a nap on that thread.Wanna fight.
Yup double yuk. HLL, one of my minor (overcome) nemesis's here
Aint that the truth? Thankfuly FR is a huge forum now and there are many places to find like minded folks while avoiding the flamewars of certain topics. The smokey backroom comes to mind
I see now. Thanks.
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