<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Thanks for keeping us all together, Mark. Happy Birthday, Team.Net.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mark J Bradakis via Fot" <fot@autox.team.net><br><b>To: </b>fot@autox.team.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, April 11, 2017 1:32:06 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Fot] Cheers!<br><div><br></div>Raise a glass to Team.Net! April 11, 1991 the domain went on the air. <br>26 years ago, a quarter of a century. Hard to believe it has been that <br>long. In truth the foundation was laid some years before then, with <br>USENET rec.autos newsgroups evolving into what became the British cars <br>and the Autox lists. Richard Welty, Dale Cook and Jim Muller are some <br>names from back than.<br><div><br></div>Somehow I got involved while I was working at the University of Utah. It <br>got to the point where the British car and autocross email traffic <br>hosted from my desktop machine at work became a very noticeable source <br>of network traffic. The powers that be STRONGLY suggested that such was <br>not official university business and should be discontinued. So I moved <br>the lists to a server at my house. Back then it wasn't quite so simple <br>and so cheap. I sent out a plea for funding and got a great response. <br>Thanks to the U of U having a good relationship with Hewlett-Packard I <br>was able to procure one of the first machines with over a 100 megahertz <br>CPU, a 20 megabyte hard drive and something like 8 megs of RAM. All for <br>about a mere $2,500 dollars.<br><div><br></div>Things have progressed since then. Still hosted from my house, still <br>taking a bit of my time every day. Hard to believe that a scatterbrained <br>procrastinator like me has been behind the curtain for all these years, <br>keeping it going. Team.Net is not as active as it was some years ago. <br>The autocross list is basically dead now, but when I took the Killer <br>Spit to the SCCA Solo Nationals in 1997, over half the drivers there <br>were subscribers to the autocross list.<br><div><br></div>Back then there were not many choices. Now there are myriads of <br>automotive related web sites, forums and such available. But there are <br>still many folks who enjoy the Team.Net email lists, who love to share <br>their exploits, their frustrations, their lives with like minded <br>individuals.<br><div><br></div>Happy Birthday to us.<br><div><br></div>mjb.<br><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>fot@autox.team.net<br><div><br></div>http://www.fot-racing.com<br><div><br></div>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html<br>Archive: http://www.team.net/archive<br>Forums: http://www.team.net/forums<br>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/dlhogye@comcast.net<br><div><br></div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>