[TR] 30 years. 3 decades.

[michael muller]

A massive Thank You to Mark and all those that work behind the scenes to make this happen.  And a second massive Thank You to the many contributors who make it what it is.
I confess to being more of a reader than contributor while I wait for my car (a story for another day).  However I look forward to being more active once I get back to "wrenching".
In the meanwhile, I raise a glass in "cheers" to the community.  Happy Birthday!
Thanks,
Mike Mullerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelolivermuller/ 

    On Sunday, April 11, 2021, 02:10:13 PM EDT, triumphs-request at autox.team.net <triumphs-request at autox.team.net> 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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