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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