[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Zia Nayamuth]

Why, thanks for making me feel all young and everything!

That said, I do remember when you could fit netscape on a floppy, heard 
of netware and dabbled in BNC... At the age of 5...

On 13/02/2015 4:38 PM, 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.
> 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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