Stone Age

Noun

1.

Stone Age - (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements

(jargon)

Stone Age - In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca. 1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaurs. Sometimes used for the entire period up to 1960-61 (see Iron Age); however, it is more descriptive to characterise the latter period in terms of a "Bronze Age" era of transistor-logic, pre-ferrite core memory machines with drum or CRT mass storage (as opposed to just mercury delay lines and/or relays). More generally, the term is used pejoratively for ancient hardware or software, even by survivors from the Stone Age.

archaeology, archeology, Eolithic, Eolithic Age, Epipaleolithic, Mesolithic, Mesolithic Age, Neolithic, Neolithic Age, New Stone Age, Palaeolithic, Paleolithic, Paleolithic Age, period, period of time, prehistoric culture, prehistory, time period