[TR] 30 years. 3 decades.

[DAVID MASSEY]

 I don't remember exactly when I joined but I remember in the mid to late 1990's when I did a lot of traveling.  I would drag out my AT laptop, serial mouse and external dial-up modem.  I would call the number to get a local dial-up line, enter that in and log on.  Then I would down load the digest and log off.  I would read the digest off-line and sometimes I would write up a response in a word processor document, log back on and paste the response to the list.  Compared to how easy it is today it was a lot of work but it was well worth it.  And I'm sure it was nothing compared to what you did to keep the list on line.  

Many, many thanks.
 
Dave 

 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>
To: triumphs at autox.team.net <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sun, Apr 11, 2021 7:58 am
Subject: [TR] 30 years. 3 decades.

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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