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• elder days n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
  he era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J....
• 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)....
• Great Worm, the: n. The 1988 Internet {worm} perpetrated by {RTM}.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare {elvish}, {elder days})....
• 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: [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 {dinosaur}s....
• Great Worm n. The 1988 Internet worm perpetrated by RTM.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days)....
• 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....