Elder days

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The Jargon File

Parts of this article are based on the Jargon File, v. 4.4.7,
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elder days
Usage: n.

See Also: Iron Age, elvish, Great Worm


elder days: n.

The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. Compare Iron Age; see also elvish and Great Worm.

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Source: elder days, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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