Mark,
Happy Birthday!
Thanks for the history lesson and for all that you do. I had no idea!
Tym McDowell
> On April 11, 2020 at 9:08 AM Mark J Bradakis via Tigers
> <tigers@autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>
> April 11th. As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially
> registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been
> managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a
> while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from
> Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years. Actually
> I may have some in my office, on 1/4 inch tape cassettes. Every now and
> then I consider trying to revive some of the old HP-UX boxes I have to
> see if I can still read any of those tapes. Maybe someday.
>
> Anyway, in the beginning I was routing everything through the servers at
> the University of Utah Computer Science Department, where I was
> employed. When my fellow sys admins started noticing just how much
> network traffic there was on a certain box, my boss strongly suggested I
> make other arrangements. So I went about getting a network connection
> at home. Back then, it was not that easy, or cheap. And as I recall,
> the first dedicated Team Net server was an HP box with one of the first
> 100+ megahertz CPUs, and even with a deal through HP, who worked closely
> with the U in those days the system set me back about $2,500. Hardware
> has improved since then. And that money didn't all come out of my
> pocket, I initiated a fund drive among the list members and got a great
> response. Back then it was all checks in the mail, and I mailed a thank
> you postcard to every contributor, or at least most of them, no doubt I
> missed a few. And for some time there was an annual fund drive to cover
> the rather high cost of having sufficient bandwidth from my house.
>
> So here it is 29 and just everybody has fast network available to
> them.  I dropped the fund drives some years back, though folks do
> continue to contribute to the cause. Now a few clicks in Paypal can
> take care of it, though some still prefer to send checks. Yep, things
> are different now. And with the Covid-19 pandemic, a LOT different.Â
> But the Team Net mailing lists are still chugging along, providing those
> spending more time at home a bit of distraction, entertainment or
> education as we keep our beloved vehicles rolling along the roads.
>
> I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I
> have left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I
> certainly won't live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will
> die. Sigh.
>
> But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.
>
> mjb.
>
>
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