[Tigers] Cheers!

[Richard Bruner]

Happy Birthday!





On Tue, April 11, 2017 3:25 am, Mark J Bradakis via Tigers wrote:

> 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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