<div dir="auto">Thanks Mark,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Greg Lemon</div><div dir="auto">TR250</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 8:00 AM Mark J Bradakis <<a href="mailto:mark@bradakis.com">mark@bradakis.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being. The British-cars <br>
mailing list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos Usenet <br>
group. Dale Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 lists at <br>
the beginning, autox and british-cars, and exploded into nearly 70 <br>
different lists with something like 15,000 individuals subscribed at its <br>
peak. For a while it was pretty much the only game in town. As I <br>
recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals 25th Anniversary <br>
event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were on the autox list.<br>
<br>
And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like me <br>
behind the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter these <br>
days, much better software handle many of the janitorial tasks <br>
automatically. Back in the beginning, I had to do *everything* by hand, <br>
so to speak. Subscribes, unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 10, 15, <br>
20 hours a week maintaining the server. The first server had a 100 MHz <br>
processor. Things have changed. Back then just having a fast network <br>
connection at a residence was rare and expensive. Good old DSL. I <br>
remember that time when my service provider went belly up, and team net <br>
was off the air for 11 days straight. I don't miss those days at all.<br>
<br>
Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here. I hope I can <br>
continue to provide a useful service for years to come.<br>
<br>
mjb.<br>
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