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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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