Great job Mark!! I have gotten so much useful information from the lists, I don't know how I would have managed to keep my car running without it.
Roger Elliott -----Original Message----- >From: Mark J Bradakis <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 11, 2017 2:29 AM >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, >[email protected], [email protected] >Subject: [TR] Cheers! > >Raise a glass to Team.Net! April 11, 1991 the domain went on the air. >26 years ago, a quarter of a century. Hard to believe it has been that >long. In truth the foundation was laid some years before then, with >USENET rec.autos newsgroups evolving into what became the British cars >and the Autox lists. Richard Welty, Dale Cook and Jim Muller are some >names from back than. > >Somehow I got involved while I was working at the University of Utah. It >got to the point where the British car and autocross email traffic >hosted from my desktop machine at work became a very noticeable source >of network traffic. The powers that be STRONGLY suggested that such was >not official university business and should be discontinued. So I moved >the lists to a server at my house. Back then it wasn't quite so simple >and so cheap. I sent out a plea for funding and got a great response. >Thanks to the U of U having a good relationship with Hewlett-Packard I >was able to procure one of the first machines with over a 100 megahertz >CPU, a 20 megabyte hard drive and something like 8 megs of RAM. All for >about a mere $2,500 dollars. > >Things have progressed since then. Still hosted from my house, still >taking a bit of my time every day. Hard to believe that a scatterbrained >procrastinator like me has been behind the curtain for all these years, >keeping it going. Team.Net is not as active as it was some years ago. >The autocross list is basically dead now, but when I took the Killer >Spit to the SCCA Solo Nationals in 1997, over half the drivers there >were subscribers to the autocross list. > >Back then there were not many choices. Now there are myriads of >automotive related web sites, forums and such available. But there are >still many folks who enjoy the Team.Net email lists, who love to share >their exploits, their frustrations, their lives with like minded >individuals. > >Happy Birthday to us. > >mjb. > > >** [email protected] ** > _______________________________________________ [email protected] Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $11.47 Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spitfires/[email protected]
