I wonder sometimes what would be the oldest extant word based on technology no longer in use. Taping an interview? Dialing someone? https://twitter.com/hels/status/679059633949011970 …
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Some great examples so far: · burning the midnight oil (from a lamp) · music album (records were literally packaged in albums, one/two songs per record) · crank up (the volume of an old gramophone) · dashboard (! from a horse carriage) · scroll (!!!)
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Oh, yeah! I forgot my own stuff. Shift and Backspace on the keyboard! Both from around 1880–1890, ceased to do what they literally meant ~1980 when computer took over from typewriters. ᴾˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᵇᵘʸ ᵐʸ ᵇᵒᵒᵏ
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Replying to @mwichary
deck — pre presentation software, a stack of photographic slides in a slide tray looked like a deck of cards
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I think slide deck is stronger than deck alone, even. Since decks exist still, but slides not really?
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well, if a deck today means a pdf’d powerpoint file that never exists in physical form, that’s distinct from a series of photographic slides that collectively only exist in physical form
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Yeah, I also don’t like that one any more. 
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