[Mg-t] Cheers!

[lawrie]

Congratulations, Mark .... and Thank you!

Lawrie Alexander

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>
>  To: mgs at autox.team.net, mg-t at autox.team.net
>  Subject: [Mg-t] Cheers!
>  Sent: 11 Apr '17 04:27
>  
>  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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