<div dir="ltr">Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work over the years.  </div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br><table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de"><tr><td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px"><a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank"><img src="https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-green-avg-v1.png" alt="" width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;"></a></td><td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;color:#41424e;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">Virus-free.<a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank" style="color:#4453ea">www.avg.com</a></td></tr></table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 6:10 AM 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">Nearly half my life!  Team dot Net went on the air 35 years ago today, <br>
April 11th, 1991.  Been through a lot of ups and downs over the years, <br>
many different computers, different ISPs, but almost always there.  I <br>
won't go into the times that ISP problems shut it down for days, or even <br>
weeks at a time.<br>
<br>
But it is still here, still on the air, still serving the purpose I have <br>
always upheld, connecting like minded users to mostly car stuff.  And <br>
always for free.  I do remember back in the beginning it was pretty <br>
expensive to run.  Fast, at home internet was not widely available.  And <br>
the first server, one of the earliest PCs in the valley to run at over <br>
100 Mhz ( Yes, MEGA Hertz! ) cost me $2,500 dollars.  Luckily paid for <br>
by generous contributions from list members.<br>
<br>
Time marches on, and so does Team Net.  I'll keep it going as long as I <br>
can, health permitting.  Who knows, maybe I'll be sending out a 50th <br>
birthday notice!<br>
<br>
mjb.<br>
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