I got that, but how do I find the number of my first post?
That might be a bit difficult unless you bookmarked it — back in ‘98 (which is your registration year), threads weren’t numbered sequentially. I suppose you could click “next page” at the bottom of your PING page but that would take forever to backstep that way. Don’t know any other way for a ten-year FR member.
I’d expect that all posts are reachable via the ‘Forum’ link though I don’t know of any fast way to get to the oldest one other than by continually hitting ‘Next page.’
I have been browsing back through ‘comments’ for some time, I had been reading my own clear back in 2001. I had tons of urls bookmarked for months and years and since the recent changes they are no longer good!! I was REALLY upset when I discovered that!!
Just found I can’t go further back than Sept 5, 2001
on yours [or any now I guess!]. When reading them, you can only ‘go back’. If you try to go forward you will return to the present date. It’s fun to read our old comments.
I have threads from 1998, etc, in links in my Profile page but wonder if they are even good now, will have to check. If you have a url the Wayback Machine can often find it or a cached copy.
Last comments page to be found. Looks like all previous ones have been done away with!
Sept 5, 2001
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:wvnan/index?more=40166
I’ll send you three other urls in Freepmail as it seems a more private thing than having them posted on the forum, lol.