[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Julien Goodwin]

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