In 1997 it was browsed on boxen that ate 300 watts, ran a blazing 133MHz Pentium running Windows 95, and a dial up. Formatting was wild-West and anyone could screw up a thread with naughty or erroneous HTML. Posting large graphics was a definite no no.
Now it’s on little power sipping laptops running insane numbers of gigahertz, with Windows 7 or maybe Ubuntu or another flavor of Linux, broadband Internet (full videos are nuthin’) and threads are bullet proof. Servers aren’t always bullet proof, however....
THAT was what made me learn enough HTML to keep FR clean.
I had actually been guilty of not closing a color and font size. It was HUGELY red for more refreshes than I embarrassingly want to remember until someone cleaned it up
Everything would be in bold or some weird color, or be very small or huge font for several replies until someone closed the HTML code.
But it was fun, and it was the only place on the web that I knew of where conservatives could exchange information. I learned a lot just by following the discussions between other folks.
Thanks, Jim Robinson. You have done a great thing for conservatism and for America.
Your computer was generations better than mine. When I first found FR I was running a 25mhz processor with 28 megs of ram and about 100 mb harddrive with Windows 3.1 and the thing was a Tandy!
I was too broke to buy a newer one.
I once forgot my password and signed back in as GeronL2 for a while, so I don’t even know if thats my original sign-up date or not.
I was in very early on Fr but then quit for about a year...then reupped with a different name...can't remember my old name...
but FR is about the only news site I click on...if I want up to date news, I go to FR...
and all you wonderful and "diverse" freepers....you're great....
so CONGRATULATIONS TO JIM!