[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Alan Maher]

Commodore 64, Geoworks, 300 bps modem (homemade) & dialling into a bulletin
board.................then thinking -    is that all there is?
After that we lived in a shoebox at the bottom of the garden and ate a 
lump of coal
before walking 20 miles to school.
Luxury !!!

:-D
On 13/02/2015 9:08 p.m., Julien Goodwin wrote:
> On 13/02/15 16:38, Ross Wheeler wrote:
>>>>> 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.
> I have an *official* copy of 1.X Netscape (I think 1.1 or 1.2) for Win
> 3.X, and that's two floppies.
>
>> 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
> * PDP / VAX [1]
> * Commodore 64
> * Apple II
>> If you never heard of Netware, Banyan Vines or LANtastic
> or "Phone Net" AppleTalk (Anyone still have ethertalk routers running?)
>
> And the "oh noes! Dual stack" people make you laugh because you remember
> running all the above in one network, at the same time.
>
>> 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
> 1: Nothing sucks like a VAX
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