Notes on  ELDER DAYS 

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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