<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Happy Birthday team net and thank you Mark for supporting all these many years! It was a vastly different world Internet-wise (and otherwise) three decades ago.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Many things have changed in the world, of course, and many of us who were here three decades ago are no longer here to celebrate the birthday. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sometimes it is easy to look backwards fondly and lament what we may have lost over time, but it also is very important to keep looking forward as that is where our opportunities and future lie.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have been a professor for the last three decades and remember when I had additional phone lines in my house for the modem and fax machines, and that 1,200 baud Hayes modem was the gateway to the Internet.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have students today who have not known a world without a smartphone with pervasive Wi-Fi and cel coverage, do not understand why a house would have a phone (e.g., who would call a house), cannot reliably tell time on analogue clocks, have never seen a car with a third peddle, are befuddled at the sight of a kickstarter on a motorcycle, have never seen a newspaper or a catalogue or understand what a carburettor does, etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It is a different world here three decades later, but much of it has improved dramatically. Our medecine, our electronics. our connectivity, the efficiency, emissions and power of our cars and motorcycles, etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It actually is wonderful that we have the option of driving a BEV, if we wish, and at the same time I can still drive my '54 MG TF that has a hand-crank starter hole in the grill or ride my '72 BSA B50SS kickstart, tickle the carburettor, 600cc single cylinder motorcycle. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The world has changed dramatically as we have spanned the two centuries together on this list, but it still is a wonderful life, and I would not change it for anything. We have been blessed to be on this journey together...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">doug</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:49 PM Mark Bradakis <<a href="mailto:mark@bradakis.com">mark@bradakis.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">32 years ago the <a href="http://team.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">team.net</a> domain was created. Hard to believe it has <br>
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