[Oscar in Batangas]

Hey FReepers, why not post your favorite FreeRepublic events and stories here...

[Paine in the Neck]

Hear, hear!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much, Oscar in Batangas!!

[pax_et_bonum]

Thank you, Freeper #1.

[Larry Lucido]

Newby!

[Lurker]

Member since 2/3/1998 and was here before those dates were assigned.

Thanks, Jim!!!!

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[Lurker]

Jim may not be logged in.

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[Rushmore Rocks]

Kudos! Best ever site, Oscar, for all the reasons you listed.

[AppyPappy]

Working security at the March for Justice
Meeting a member of the all-time favorite band at FR events
Having my daughter sing at the Impeachment Rally.

[Yo-Yo]

Happy Birthday Freeper #1! Your present is in the Freepathon kitty!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I found FreeRepublic.com via . . . The Drudge Report

Me too.

I was haunting a CSPAN forum at the time, but it was moribund with only a handful of users, more liberal than conservative.

I enjoyed the challenge there, but this is my cyber home.

Someone mentioned how nice it was back in the 1950s, in many ways. But I pointed out that we then had NBC, CBS, ABC - and the newspapers.

I asked if he would really be happy when there was no FR???

[Jim W N]

the overwhelming diversity of interests amongst the FReeper community, we can go from the smallest subatomic particles to the vastness of inter-gallactic space in only a few posts. And from pottery shards from the earliest human civilizations to the flying car concepts from the day after tomorrow. Thought provoking discussions about history, religion and even cold fusion and train travel has intrigued us over the past twenty years.

Agreed. A lot of fun and meaningful and hopefully influential stuff here.

Thanks Jim.

[MountainDad]

My son was in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division, (hence - MountainDad), early in the war, 2003, and I was searching for any information coming out of there.

A friend suggested FreeRepublic and found more information here than anywhere else. Been here ever since, although for whatever reason, failed to sign up until 2005.

[MomwithHope]

Joined officially Feb. 26, 1999. I lurked for about a year. It’s been so long I can’t remember how I found FR. Possibly through Drudge’s site.

[deadrock]

I love Freerepublic and have show my appreciation by donating regularly. If you haven't, please do so today.

[jazusamo]

I stumbled onto FR in late 2005 and thought it a great site, it’s been the only site for me since then.

[humblegunner]

Plus you get humblegunner, which is nice.

For everybody.

[SamAdams76]

I remember getting a phone call from Jim Robinson at around this time in 1997. We were then posting together on the Prodigy Whitewater BB back in the early days of the Internet. We used to post newspaper and magazine articles in their entirety. But Prodigy (owned by Sears) began pulling down posts that were copyrighted news articles. Free Republic was to be a "fair use" website where we could post articles in their entirety.

Most of us know the rest of the story. Eventually Free Republic had to obey the copyrights and only excerpt articles where the original sources had an issue with it. Still, we are able to post many articles in it's entirety here. And as for those that we have to excerpt, we Freepers have become famous for "not reading the article" and posting replies based on the headline or excerpt only!

I signed up for Free Republic on the very first day under my actual real life name. A bit later, I decided to change my name to SamAdams76 and so that is why my sign up date is Dec 9 1997 and not the very day Free Republic went online.

[ransomnote]

Trump has Airforce One.
Freepers have Freeper One!
THANK YOU, Jim Robinson!

[Yaelle]

Happy Anniversary, Jim! Thank you for creating this site. I agree that the best thing about FR is the “thought aggregation” from all these wonderful people. Long live conservative diversity, lol!

Personally, I can’t really remember how I first came upon FR. Either Drudge or else the Townhall chat board.

I’ve had some great discussions and arguments here and admired so many great writers. And matured a lot over my long time here.

I’ve been quoted verbatim by Rush, thanked personally by Sean, and one FReeper believed I WAS Rush Limbaugh which was a ton of fun. Though I needed help to get some golf and football references to pepper into my comments during that phase. ;) The guy so wanted “me” to say a particular phrase on air to prove to his wife that I was Rush.

We’ve gone through some of our nation’s worst times together and had our hearts broken together. We’ve loved and lost a lot together here. We’ve had our triumphs, too.

But mostly, I’m just here for the jokes.

[The Mayor]

Congrats!!