[Fot] 30 years. 3 decades.

[R. John Lye]

As one of the early members of Team.Net, it is really hard to believe that
it has really been thirty years.  D*mn, I must be getting old.

John
 





On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 07:04:44 -0600, Mark J Bradakis via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being.  The British-cars
mailing list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos Usenet
group.  Dale Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 lists at
the beginning, autox and british-cars, and exploded into nearly 70
different lists with something like 15,000 individuals subscribed at its
peak.  For a while it was pretty much the only game in town.  As I
recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals 25th Anniversary
event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were on the autox list.

And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like me
behind the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter these
days, much better software handle many of the janitorial tasks
automatically.  Back in the beginning, I had to do *everything* by hand,
so to speak. Subscribes, unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 10, 15, 20
hours a week maintaining the server.  The first server had a 100 MHz
processor.  Things have changed.  Back then just having a fast network
connection at a residence was rare and expensive.  Good old DSL.  I
remember that time when my service provider went belly up, and team net
was off the air for 11 days straight.  I don't miss those days at all.

Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here.  I hope I can
continue to provide a useful service for years to come.

mjb.


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