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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.