[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Curtis Bayne]

I'd like to think that somewhere on this list is an ex-PMG greybeard -
whiskey in one hand, laughing at us young whippersnappers and our packet
switched networks...

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Alan Maher <alanmaher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Commodore 64, Geoworks, 300 bps modem (homemade) & dialling into a bulletin
> board.................then thinking -    is that all there is?
> After that we lived in a shoebox at the bottom of the garden and ate a
> lump of coal
> before walking 20 miles to school.
> Luxury !!!
>
> :-D
>
> On 13/02/2015 9:08 p.m., Julien Goodwin wrote:
>
>> 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
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