[Mgs] A couple of dozen

Charley & Peggy Robinson ccrobins at ktc.com
Sun Apr 12 09:07:13 MDT 2015


Happy birthday to your brainchild, Mark!

CR

On 4/11/2015 1:42 PM, Mark J Bradakis via Mgs wrote:
> April, 1991. Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston had top hits. The Soviet 
> Union is crumbling.
> The Gulf War begins. And on the 11th the domain Team.Net is registered.
>
> Happy birthday to us, 24 years and still kicking. Formed out of the 
> Usenet rec.autos tree,
> it started with just 2 lists, autox and british-cars. It became large 
> enough and busy enough
> that the officials at the U noticed that a large amount of network 
> traffic was coming from one
> certain machine in my office. That is what prompted the move to a 
> private server, which has been
> in my basement for many years. Well, we are NOT running on the same 
> server from back then, which I
> recall was one of the first 120 Megahertz systems in the valley 
> outside of universities. With the
> CS departments work with Hewlett-Packard, I had a connection.
>
> A lot has changed over the years, folks have come and gone, some have 
> been hanging out here for
> decades. We've lost a few good ones, but many of us have found lasting 
> friendships from list
> communications. Back in the early days there wasn't much besides 
> Team.Net. I think the 1997
> SCCA Solo II nationals had something like 60% of the entrants being 
> autox list subscribers.
> Those were the days.
>
> But still here, still providing a valuable service to those who use 
> it.  Thanks to all of us
> for making Team.Net what it is.
>
> Happy Birthday.
>
> mjb.
>
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