[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Callum Barr]

Ministry of silly walks?

On Friday, 13 February 2015, Peter Adkins <peter.adkins at kernelpicnic.net>
wrote:

> There seems to be a faint odour of a certain Python sketch emanating
> from this thread...
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Brooks
> <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > 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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