[TR] Cheers!

Tue Apr 11 06:45:40 MDT 2017

Congratulations Mark, and thank you for keeping us connected for all these years.  

Looks like a $26 donation is in order here to help insure the next 26 years. 

Cheers,
Bill B
TR3A 1958
S2A Landry 1968
4/4 Morgan 1988
S7 Deluxe Sunbeam M/C

Sent from my Altair 8800

On Apr 11, 2017, at 2:29 AM, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> 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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