[TR] 30 years. 3 decades.

[Greg Lemon]

Thanks Mark,

I remember Team.net not looking ng after it started.  My only access was
"illegally" at work.  Didn't start on the listservs until I got my computer
in the late nineties.

Team.net was the first wave in the internet really changing the way we
accessed info about British cars.  An old friend and I still marvel at the
things we did "without blowing anything up" before you could go on a
listserv or forum and ask for advice.

If you ever still go to the SCCA solo nationals let me know, I will buy you
a beer, it is in my hometown these days.

Greg Lemon
TR250

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 8:00 AM Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> 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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