The Team.Net domain was registered in April of 1991. Pretty early in the
world of the internet, we used to have to tell people that the dot was
not silent. Folks have figured that out by now.
But the lists were around in some form or other since about 1988, back
in the beginning it was just british-cars and autox. Dale Cook was the
one who first hosted the lists, then Jim Muller, who still is on the Triumph
and Spitfire lists, took over, then I hosted it from work. But
eventually the
network traffic became noticeable and my superiors wondered about the
use of University facilities for personal use.
That was when we registered team.net and I set up shop in my home.
The first fund drive netted enough money to get a nice machine, an HP
with one of the first processors clocked over 100 Meg! It cost nearly
$2,500. The U of U was doing a lot of work with HP in those days, so
I had an in with them. I think I still have that box somewhere in the
house. Back in the late 80s the stack of HP stuff that made up my
system at work had a retail value of $125,000, roughly 4 times the
cost of the house my wife and I bought.
I keep thinking I should write up a history of Team.Net and try to
dig out some of the messages from the earlier days. A lot of it is
stored on 1/4 tape cartridges which at the moment I can't read.
But I might have enough old hardware laying around to set up
a system to do that. We shall see.
mjb.
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