[Tigers] Cheers!

[awtiger at cox.net]

Congratulations, Mark!!!!  Job well done!!!!  Thank you for all you do for the British car community!!

Andy Walker
'67 Sunbeam Tiger Mk1A
'73 MGB

---- Mark J Bradakis via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote: 
> 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.
> 
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