[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Paul Brooks]

Has it really been that long since the last 'I go back to when....' thread?  Our
collective old-guys memory must be getting hazy.

(I go back to before DHCP was around, when IP addresses were handed out by RARP if you
had so many nodes you couldn't do manual allocation and keep a notebook)

Also, surely a VIC-20 qualifies with the TRS-80!

Paul

On 13/02/2015 4:43 PM, Zia Nayamuth wrote:
> 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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