Thank you Mark!
Best, Alan
On 4/11/2017 1:24 AM, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> Raise a glass to Team.Net! April 11, 1991 the domain went on the
> air. 26 years ago, a quarter of a century. Hard to believe it has
> been that long. In truth the foundation was laid some years before
> then, with USENET rec.autos newsgroups evolving into what became the
> British cars and the Autox lists. Richard Welty, Dale Cook and Jim
> Muller are some names from back than.
>
> Somehow I got involved while I was working at the University of Utah.
> It got to the point where the British car and autocross email traffic
> hosted from my desktop machine at work became a very noticeable source
> of network traffic. The powers that be STRONGLY suggested that such
> was not official university business and should be discontinued. So I
> moved the lists to a server at my house. Back then it wasn't quite so
> simple and so cheap. I sent out a plea for funding and got a great
> response. Thanks to the U of U having a good relationship with
> Hewlett-Packard I was able to procure one of the first machines with
> over a 100 megahertz CPU, a 20 megabyte hard drive and something like
> 8 megs of RAM. All for about a mere $2,500 dollars.
>
> Things have progressed since then. Still hosted from my house, still
> taking a bit of my time every day. Hard to believe that a
> scatterbrained procrastinator like me has been behind the curtain for
> all these years, keeping it going. Team.Net is not as active as it
> was some years ago. The autocross list is basically dead now, but
> when I took the Killer Spit to the SCCA Solo Nationals in 1997, over
> half the drivers there were subscribers to the autocross list.
>
> Back then there were not many choices. Now there are myriads of
> automotive related web sites, forums and such available. But there are
> still many folks who enjoy the Team.Net email lists, who love to share
> their exploits, their frustrations, their lives with like minded
> individuals.
>
> Happy Birthday to us.
>
> mjb.
>
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