Happy 15th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com! Established September 23, 1996

10th Anniversary Thread ^ | Saturday, September 24, 2011 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

whois freerepublic.com -

Domain Name: FREEREPUBLIC.COM
Created on..............: 23-SEP-1996

FreeRepublic.com founder Jim Robinson

AKA Jim Thompson

Jim Robinson leads Free Republic's Clinton impeachment rally called the March for Justice, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1998

As featured in the Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up and Sing

Free Republic was Tea Party before there was a Tea Party

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Thanks for posting, Kristinn! And, thank you JimRob for the No. 1 Conservative forum!

[big'ol_freeper]

Yikes!! 15 years!! Time sure flew by!

Congratulations Jim, and thank you.

[Bigun]

I arrived here Mar 16, 1998 and found a home!

Lot’s of folks I wish were still around to celebrate with us!

[milagro]

God bless you Jim--and John. Been here since '98--after my dear hubbie found you during the Whitewater debacle. FReepers were so kind when he died suddenly of a heart attack in '02--his FReep name was 1John.

FreeRepublic has been my homepage since then--don't know what I would do without it! What a blesing to have such a great cyber family to be part of!

[califamily4W]

Congrats to you Jim, may the Lord above bless you and keep you close. And, Happy Birthday to all Freepers!

(Say, why not become a monthly donor today?)

[Alamo-Girl]

Happy Birthday, Free Republic!

[LostInBayport]

Free Republic is a refuge of sanity, intelligence and humor in some dark and disturbing times. Thanks to everyone who runs this place! God Bless FR!

[Bean Counter]

[Bigun]

It is my absolute conviction that IF we manage to save this great republic it will, in no small measure, be due to the existence of FreeRepublic.com and all the GREAT folks brought together by this great forum that YOU put in place Jim Robinson!

[Indy Pendance]

I found FR on C-SPAN showing the March for Justice! I lurked for about a year and finally got fed up enough to join after the Sore/Loserman crap. My first screen name was changed. I remember posting on the supreme court threads. There were so many threads that needed to be started.

Remember the days after a 100 or so posts, a new thread had to be started? Close your tags!

[savedbygrace]

It dad to do with hovering your mouse cursor over something on your home page, but I don’t think that works now.

IIRC, mine is 1198. My join date is in Jan 1998. Nearly 14 years ago. WOW!

[Indy Pendance]

This is at the bottom of FR's home page.

~ FreeRepublic Memorial Wall ~

[Bigun]

You beat me here by 2 whole days! ;>)

GREAT to see ya!

[Bigun]

I know! I’ve shed tears over it a number of times! Some of those folks I only knew here on FR but Herb was a personal friend as well!

He used to say that he had never met a freeper he didn’t like and, come to think of it, neither have I!

[ElkGroveDan]

Conservative Internet circles back then were small, but everyone linked to everyone else. I lurked on FR for about five years using it as a conservative news wire and didn't pay much attention to the comments, until one morning in 2001 when a Freeper posted an article I had written under a pen name. Within less than an hour Rush was reading my article on his show. That's when I realized Rush's staff was using FR as a news source too and from then on I became a regular Freeper.

Congratulations Jim!

[Alamo-Girl]

Hi there, Bigun! Great to see you, too!

[Indy Pendance]

Wow! I was just looking at his last post, Sorry Marine -- You're Too Old. IIRC, it was shortly before his horrific death. We were all SHOCKED by it.

[Bigun]

For you newer freepers who don’t know there is a link to Alamo-Girl’s GREAT Clinton years archive on FreeRepublic’s home page. If you haven’t already, you really should check it out! Fantastic work!

http://www.alamo-girl.com/

[Helen]

I’ve been with you for 14 1/2 of those 15 years, Jim.

A heartfelt “thank you”. FR has kept me sane and grounded.

[Recovering_Democrat]

True dat. FR was tea party before there was a Tea Party.

Hey, I see Publius knows his/her Freeper number. How can I discover mine?