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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>elder days</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="El-Camino-Bignum.html" title="El Camino Bignum"/><link rel="next" href="elegant.html" title="elegant"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">elder days</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="El-Camino-Bignum.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elegant.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="elder-days"/><dt xmlns="" id="elder-days"><b>elder days</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the
<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>, <a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a>,
<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather
consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic <i class="citetitle">The
Lord of the Rings</i>. Compare <a href="../I/Iron-Age.html"><i class="glossterm">Iron Age</i></a>;
see also <a href="elvish.html"><i class="glossterm">elvish</i></a> and
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