<html><body><div>Happy Birthday Mark! And .team.net! Thanks for all you do and here's to many more birthdays for all concerned and a continued celebration of the information passed along through this thread! </div><div>Cheers!</div><div>Steven Kingsbury</div><div><br>On April 11, 2020 at 6:04 AM, Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content">April 11th. As many of you know, the domain <a href="http://team.net" data-mce-href="http://team.net">team.net</a> was officially <br>registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been <br>managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a <br>while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from <br>Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years. Actually <br>I may have some in my office, on 1/4 inch tape cassettes. Every now and <br>then I consider trying to revive some of the old HP-UX boxes I have to <br>see if I can still read any of those tapes. Maybe someday.<br><br>Anyway, in the beginning I was routing everything through the servers at <br>the University of Utah Computer Science Department, where I was <br>employed. When my fellow sys admins started noticing just how much <br>network traffic there was on a certain box, my boss strongly suggested I <br>make other arrangements. So I went about getting a network connection <br>at home. Back then, it was not that easy, or cheap. And as I recall, <br>the first dedicated Team Net server was an HP box with one of the first <br>100+ megahertz CPUs, and even with a deal through HP, who worked closely <br>with the U in those days the system set me back about $2,500. Hardware <br>has improved since then. And that money didn't all come out of my <br>pocket, I initiated a fund drive among the list members and got a great <br>response. Back then it was all checks in the mail, and I mailed a thank <br>you postcard to every contributor, or at least most of them, no doubt I <br>missed a few. And for some time there was an annual fund drive to cover <br>the rather high cost of having sufficient bandwidth from my house.<br><br>So here it is 29 and just everybody has fast network available to <br>them. I dropped the fund drives some years back, though folks do <br>continue to contribute to the cause. Now a few clicks in Paypal can <br>take care of it, though some still prefer to send checks. Yep, things <br>are different now. And with the Covid-19 pandemic, a LOT different. <br>But the Team Net mailing lists are still chugging along, providing those <br>spending more time at home a bit of distraction, entertainment or <br>education as we keep our beloved vehicles rolling along the roads.<br><br>I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I <br>have left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I <br>certainly won't live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will <br>die. Sigh.<br><br>But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.<br><br>mjb.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Support <a href="http://Team.Net" data-mce-href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Suggested annual donation $12.75<br><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys">http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys</a> <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/archive">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br><br><a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" data-mce-href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a><br><br>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/airtightproductions@icloud.com" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/airtightproductions@icloud.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/airtightproductions@icloud.com</a><br><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>