[TR] 30 years. 3 decades.

bill beecher notakitcar at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 11 08:31:05 MDT 2021


Thank you Mark, I have been on only half of those 30 but appreciate you so much for keeping us all connected.  
All the best,
Bill
Triumph
Morgan
Land Rover

PS-Time for a donation too!

#dontkillgrandma

On Apr 11, 2021, at 9:13 AM, Greg Lemon <grglmn at gmail.com> wrote:


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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