And a hardy Thanks to Mark for all of his hard work.
Kg
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> On Apr 11, 2017, at 7:52 AM, Rick Parent via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
> Happy Birthday indeed!!!!!
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 8:46 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Fot <fot at
> autox.team.net> 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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