<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>And a hardy Thanks to Mark for all of his hard work. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Kg<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Apr 11, 2017, at 7:52 AM, Rick Parent via Fot <<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span>Happy Birthday indeed!!!!!</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 8:46 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Fot <<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr">Raise a glass to <a href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a>! April 11, 1991 the domain went on the air. <br></div><div dir="ltr">26 years ago, a quarter of a century. Hard to believe it has been that <br></div><div dir="ltr">long. In truth the foundation was laid some years before then, with <br></div><div dir="ltr">USENET rec.autos newsgroups evolving into what became the British cars <br></div><div dir="ltr">and the Autox lists. Richard Welty, Dale Cook and Jim Muller are some <br></div><div dir="ltr">names from back than.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Somehow I got involved while I was working at the University of Utah. It <br></div><div dir="ltr">got to the point where the British car and autocross email traffic <br></div><div dir="ltr">hosted from my desktop machine at work became a very noticeable source <br></div><div dir="ltr">of network traffic. The powers that be STRONGLY suggested that such was <br></div><div dir="ltr">not official university business and should be discontinued. So I moved <br></div><div dir="ltr">the lists to a server at my house. Back then it wasn't quite so simple <br></div><div dir="ltr">and so cheap. I sent out a plea for funding and got a great response. <br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks to the U of U having a good relationship with Hewlett-Packard I <br></div><div dir="ltr">was able to procure one of the first machines with over a 100 megahertz <br></div><div dir="ltr">CPU, a 20 megabyte hard drive and something like 8 megs of RAM. All for <br></div><div dir="ltr">about a mere $2,500 dollars.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Things have progressed since then. Still hosted from my house, still <br></div><div dir="ltr">taking a bit of my time every day. Hard to believe that a scatterbrained <br></div><div dir="ltr">procrastinator like me has been behind the curtain for all these years, <br></div><div dir="ltr">keeping it going. <a href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a> is not as active as it was some years ago. <br></div><div dir="ltr">The autocross list is basically dead now, but when I took the Killer <br></div><div dir="ltr">Spit to the SCCA Solo Nationals in 1997, over half the drivers there <br></div><div dir="ltr">were subscribers to the autocross list.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Back then there were not many choices. Now there are myriads of <br></div><div dir="ltr">automotive related web sites, forums and such available. But there are <br></div><div dir="ltr">still many folks who enjoy the <a href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a> email lists, who love to share <br></div><div dir="ltr">their exploits, their frustrations, their lives with like minded <br></div><div dir="ltr">individuals.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Happy Birthday to us.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">mjb.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.fot-racing.com/" target="_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Forums: <a href="http://www.team.net/forums" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/forums</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/rick.parent@att.net" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/rick.parent@att.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span><a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a></span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.fot-racing.com">http://www.fot-racing.com</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a></span><br><span>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/archive">http://www.team.net/archive</a></span><br><span>Forums: <a href="http://www.team.net/forums">http://www.team.net/forums</a></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/triumphs@consolidated.net">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/triumphs@consolidated.net</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>