[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Schulz, Jason]

In my day, we counted in unary.

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From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Peter Adkins
Sent: Friday, 13 February 2015 5:08 PM
To: Paul Brooks
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

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> 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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