Computing Dictionary
elder days definition
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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