FreeRepublic.com was launched on September 23, 1996. Led the impeachment of BJ Clinton a couple years later. Would love to impeach FUBO.
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Less than a year until the 20th anniversary. Great work, great site. Can’t wait for the celebration!
I’m a youngster here. I started lurking on 9/11 but didn’t get the courage to join for a long time. You guys were intimidating.
Mr. Robinson. I feel honored to give your great comment a reply.
Freerepublic helped me deal with stress caused by leftists in Berkeley in 1997.
Tim Berners Lee’s excellent invention helped us deal with stress from newspapers, televisions and radios in 1991.
Craig Newmark’s excellent list helped us ignore newspaper classifieds in 1995.
I remember when Kinko’s in Berkeley in 1995 had a new “web” thing that allowed people to sit at the computer, get help with something called “Netscape” and then see pictures from Mars slowly unfold. Amazing.
I wasn’t even 11 years old yet.
I was surfing Compuserve bulletin boards back then.
Bless you Jim for this effort of Love...
I became a “FREEPER” on Nov 9, 1998, and never regretted it.
Before the internet I used dial up modems to access corporate and university servers. We called this service bulletin boards. The intetnet was similar except without dial up. Packets were used for the network.
I first used the internet in 1994. IBM was a good web site.
I began lurking on FR during the summer of 1997.
Having found the online world in 1993 at a Quantum Leap TV show convention, I found FR for the 2000 presidential race after Rush mentioned FR often. Thanks, Jim!
Can we start planning the party now?
A great, great, life-changing day for so many of us!
At 82 my memory is a little shot but I remember the sound of the dialup modem to connect to compuserve and remember my nerdy nephew calling me about a guy named Mark? Andreesen and a site called Netscape and the rest is mental overload. My only regret is not signing up sooner! (bragging rights)
After I read Alfred Nobel’s will, I thought that it was kind of ridiculous - in the sense that the outstanding scientific advances were generally profitable. Nobel created his advance, dynamite, and he made enough money to fund the Nobel prizes in perpetuity.IMHO the WWW is an excellent example of an advance which did NOT make its inventor rich. And, therefore, Tim Berners Lee should be awarded a Nobel Prize, hands down.