[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

Ross Wheeler ausnog at rossw.net
Fri Feb 13 16:38:41 EST 2015


>>> What age counts as a young un?
>
> If you can't remember when the BGP table was less than 50K routes.

I think you're in trouble if you say "that's me" to any of these!

If you don't know what SLIRP was.
If you don't remember when you could fit netscape on a floppy.
If you don't remember webcrawler or Trumpet Winsock.
If you don't know what Fidonet was
If you have no idea what an AM7910 was or would be used for.
If you never owned at least one of:
  *  Microbee
  *  Trash80
  *  SCAMP
If you never heard of Netware, Banyan Vines or LANtastic
If you don't recognise a BNC-T and/or a BNC 50R terminator
If you can't identify  g=c800:5
If you don't know what an NEC-V20 was

(Probably ten thousand more we could easily come up with!)


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