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Elder Days N. The Heroic Age Of Hackerdom (roughly, Pre-1980)
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elder days n.
The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly,
pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS
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
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elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
he era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}, and the ARPANET....
elvish n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells".
Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically elegant) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general)....
elvish: n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells".
Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general)....
Iron Age n. In the history of computing, 1961-1971 -- the formative era of commercial mainframe technology, when ferrite-core dinosaurs ruled the earth.
The Iron Age began, ironically enough, with the delivery of the first minicomputer (the PDP-1) and ended with the introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971....
Iron Age: n. In the history of computing, 1961--1971 --- the formative era of commercial {mainframe} technology, when ferrite-core {dinosaur}s ruled the earth.
The Iron Age began, ironically enough, with the delivery of the first minicomputer (the PDP-1) and ended with the introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971....
ee-killer n. [Sun] 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper.
This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense...
ee-killer: [Sun] n. 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper.
This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense...
Stone Age n.,adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca.
1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaurs....
Angband n. /ang'band/ Like nethack, moria, and rogue
one of the large freely distributed Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems....