freejen.org started as joke in late 2002. I was drinking beer with my good friends, all of them techies in some form or another, before departing for my year-long trip through Africa, India, and SE Asia (at that point I had even more ambitious travel plans including Mongolia and somehow taking a train across the *stans and Russia).
I attempted to get some firm promises that if I wound up in a 3rd world jail at least someone would come get me out. Their response was, “of course not, we’ll just set up a website called “freejen” and secure your release the internet way.” And thus freejen.org was born.
Strangely and creepily, after Greg Smith registered the domain and setup the first freejen.org site, a freejen.com website appeared, where a woman named Jen was really in prison.
Fortunately, I never had the opportunity to view the inside of a third-world prison.
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