[Healeys] Cheers!

[Alan Grossman]

Thank you Mark!

Best, Alan


On 4/11/2017 1:24 AM, Mark J Bradakis 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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