meaning of elder days

1. 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. Tolkiens fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm. [Jargon File] Electing a Pope humour> From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.

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