@Cyber Liberty I was class of 98, and if you PM me your old handle I won't tell anybody. Not even Boss Lady!
I'm going to enjoy my new anonymity here at TBR. I have since changed my mind on Trump, and voted for him in '20 and '24. And, no, I did NOT vote for Hillary in '16. I did a write-in. In those days, I believed a Trump presidency would be equal to a Hillary presidency. Turns out I was wrong, so I've put those notions behind me.
@Bigun I signed on at FR in March of 98 and spent many happy years there. I made friends with many people I would otherwise never have encountered. And then JR let the mods turn it all to $%*t! I left of my own volition around 2010, bounced from pillar to post until I signed on here in May of 2012. Still here and happy about it. My screen name has not changed since the old BBS days. Maybe we met in person somewhere along the line @AllThatJazzZ as I was very active with the Houston FR crowd for a long time.
No, I didn't get to participate in any activities in those days because it was when I was the lone caregiver for my beloved father before his passing. I was tethered to the house for a few years, so my only "life" was online. The one activity I did get to attend was a ladies' lunch at a Mexican restaurant in the Montrose area where we got together with Joyce "Rejoice" Smith of Hope Ministries. It was a fun afternoon, and all those ladies were FReepers, but I can't remember any of their names. Joyce is the one I remember, and it was a blessing to meet her.
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It's fun to see what people remember about FR. I don't remember the Armstrong thing. I remember some kind of dust-up between JimRob/FR and FR's lawyer (?) in San Francisco. His name was everywhere ... until it wasn't. Now I can't even remember it. I remember Ash Alerts and DITHF and Buckhead when he blew the CBS hit piece on GWB wide open. Also, the time when someone deliberately and mischievously left the HTML color font tag open so that all font was in white and therefore invisible. 'Twas a mystery for a while until someone figured it out. The code was corrected so that couldn't happen again, but I have to admit that it was a funny prank.
A handful of us branched off to spend some time in a chatroom someone created (on the Homestead platform) where we could have real-time conversations. It was called The Alley and it was great fun. I've wracked my brain to remember the names of the regulars there. Here are some of the ones I can come up with: Navigator (I think he created the chatroom), FReeping Beauty, quidnunc, Cynicom, Uncle Daddy, Landshark, Mulder, AlleyCat, Wordkraft*, Uncle Sham, Canuck, bruinbirdman, Art Deco and several more that I just can't remember. Some of the names can no longer be found at FR because they received the left foot of fellowship, but in their day they had high visibility.
*Fun factoid: Wordkraft appeared on Win Ben Stein's Money and won! I recorded it but deleted it after that jackass Kimmel was so disgustingly vulgar. It put a cloud on my friend's victory, and I didn't want any part of that. But I was so happy for WK. He was smart and funny and kept us in stitches in the Alley.
Thanks, everyone, for allowing me to reminisce!
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