[cgk]

Fellow FReepers - check out how our beloved FR has changed! I've included the oldest link available, from 1996, to its front page then. Remember Ken Starr deciding Vince Foster's death a suicide? Who doesn't? Read what was happening back then, here:

Free Republic: December 1996

If you want to see more archived FR pages, simply go to:

<A HREF="http://web.archive.org>Internet Wayback Machine</A> <p> and search by ENTIRE URL. (http://etc.......) You cannot search by text. <p> You can even take a gander at how the old Clinton/Gore www.whitehouse.gov website looked! (yikes!) <p> enjoy! <p> Mrs Kus

[stanz]

Thanks for this piece of information. FR looked grim in 1996 - - -but I liked the category "Scandals."

[cgk]

Egad, formatting flop.

Here is that source link, to search for any old web site they may have:

Internet Wayback Machine

Sorry about that. Don't know how I missed it in the preview.

Mrs Kus

[Constitution Day]

Too cool BUMP!

[fnord]

cool bump ... eeek, my old sites look so lame!

[StonyMan451]

Any statistics on membership growth over this time period?

[Havisham]

Oh no! Black background --can you believe some sites still use this clunker?

[Catie]

Cool.

[gogov]

Darn glad FR got rid of the frames.

[Revel]

A Free Republic

If you believe that our nation has been drifting away from Abraham Lincoln's "government of the people", or that our government has deserted our Founding Fathers' vision of a Free Republic as set forth in the Constitution, or that our government has mushroomed completely out of control, or that the so-called free press has been "protecting" us from the ugly truth -- read on.

On these pages we hope to bring you news of the nation not only from the mainstream media, but also from lesser known sources - small papers, newsletters, talk shows, government publications, online websites, and gasp, even from conspiracy theorists (sometimes there really are fires beneath all that smoke).

---

Notice the part in bold from the old mission statement.

[lafroste]

The wayback machine does not go way back enough for my first internet business. In retrospect I was a real trend setter (sigh).

Anyone rememebr seeing www.bodem.com? (don't bother looking up that url now) (sigh).

[MadelineZapeezda]

Today is also St. Crispin's Day

[piasa]

Yikes- black background! And I thought only anarcho-libs use black backgrounds!

[RonDog]

Today marks the launch of the Internet Wayback Machine

The ALTERNATIVE spelling is WABAC.
from http://www.animationusa.com/univ08.html:

WABAC

Mr. Peabody and Sherman set the WABAC controls
to teleport back through time for another amazing adventure...

[bluefish]

I'd love to check out the early days of a website I worked for (1996) up through March of this year. But darn it, I'm getting "data retrieval errors!" Anybody else have this problem?

[primeval patriot]

bump

[wewillnotfail]

book

[b4its2late]

BTTT for old times sake......

[fat city]

Wow,cgk-- thanks for the memories. I remember being pissed and depressed about the Clintons and then, discovering FR in '98. I'm still pissed and depressed about the Clintons but its good to know I have company.BTW, Saturday mornings were all about Heckle & Jeckle.

[Major_Risktaker]

Cool! I would like to see FreeRepublicTV...

The RNC has a great TV studio on the concourse level at our headquarters in DC. I was there when it was built and they never really used it the way I would have.

Anyway, just a thought.

[ChadGore]

Re: "This software is optimized for use with Netscape Navigator 2.0 and above"

Ahhhh the good old days . . . when software companies thought they had a chance in hell against Bill Borg-Gates.