[Spridgets] 30 years. 3 decades.
JMFangio
oldsaabguy at comcast.net
Mon Apr 12 06:50:57 MDT 2021
This constant begging for money is killing me. ;-)
Congrats!
and take my $13.80.
Lester
On Apr 11, 2021, at 9:03 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being. The British-cars mailing list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos Usenet group. Dale Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 lists at the beginning, autox and british-cars, and exploded into nearly 70 different lists with something like 15,000 individuals subscribed at its peak. For a while it was pretty much the only game in town. As I recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals 25th Anniversary event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were on the autox list.
And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like me behind the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter these days, much better software handle many of the janitorial tasks automatically. Back in the beginning, I had to do *everything* by hand, so to speak. Subscribes, unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 10, 15, 20 hours a week maintaining the server. The first server had a 100 MHz processor. Things have changed. Back then just having a fast network connection at a residence was rare and expensive. Good old DSL. I remember that time when my service provider went belly up, and team net was off the air for 11 days straight. I don't miss those days at all.
Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here. I hope I can continue to provide a useful service for years to come.
mjb.
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