[BC] CD, LP, RIAA, etc...

[Jeff Johnson]

Well, we still 'dial' a phone. We now 'drive' a car, not horses. Ships 
still 'sail'. Then again a 'record', whether it is a wax cylinder or a file 
on a flash chip is still a recording.

So many things that were originally a certain way for a technical reason 
are retained in the lingo or as a superfluous 'style'. Think of neckties, 
phony button holes, faux Tudor facades, fake masonry facades tacked onto 
steel frame buildings, faux 'news'.

Jeff.Johnson at rfproof.com

>On Tuesday 23 September 2008 08:37:08 am Alan Peterson wrote:
> > They even gave a nostalgic nod to the old days by calling them "tapes".
>
>It's scary how reality imitates art.  I can remember as far back as the early
>nineties where my sister-in-law would refer to Nintendo game cartridges
>(essentially, a ROM chip on a plug-in card) as a "tape", as in "I need to
>return the Nintendo tapes to the rental place today".  She
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