I heard from a number of LzD members asking me if I knew what was happening when they couldn't get to Freedomlist (FL) at the beginning of the month. At first it appears that "Webmaster" had merely forgotten to pay the domain renewal. However,
DomainTools was quickly updated to show an update:
Dates Created on 2000-05-31 - Expires on 2017-05-31 - Updated on 2016-06-02
Although the domain name was renewed, it appears that Al decided not to continue. Seeing as how the forum had very little activity after his changes last year (instructions provided to the Admin/Mod team as to what was no longer allowed), it is no wonder the site was dying.
So, RIP Freedomlist. You were where I got my start. The official launch of Freedomlist was March 1, 2000. At that time it was merely a message board with the forum software added later and registration after that. When I finally got approval for Internet access at work, by April of that year, I decided it was time to get connected from home. On my lunch break, I researched free ISPs and discovered FL and decided it was time to connect my home PC (Windows 95) to the Internet. So, I found an extra phone line in the basement, managed to fish the line through the ceiling tiles, drill a hole in the floor and popped in AOL CD and off I went to FL checking the list of Free ISPs (FISPs).
Here's the oldest FL page on the Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000815083949/http://www.freedomlist.com/ and this is what will go down in history as the last capture:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160323104205/http://www.freedomlist.com/forum/In addition to Aaron, Winchester73, GR@PH;<'s, Paddy and myself, I believe I've "captured" all the FL members who are members here ((I hope I haven't missed anyone. If so, please give a holler!): Ron350, Deborah, v_v, Lost, Pete, techie, plodr, frapper, richc46, Orillia3, jaycharles, Eln Lou, CaptainTripps, darksurfer, Dude111, Bruce Bailey, Kemosabe. Please join in and share your memories, thoughts, whatever about FL.
A special thanks to Curt for my rose

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