Thank you for your service to the hobby.
Bruce Steele
Brea, CA
1960 BN7
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From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mark J
Bradakis
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 1:24 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net; Spridget <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] Cheers!
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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