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elder days
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n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10 ,
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TECO , ITS , and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted
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from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. Compare Iron Age
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; see also elvish and Great Worm.
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