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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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