I didn’t even think you could still send a “cable.” Western Union halted its telegram service 13 years ago. Why aren’t diplomats using encrypted email or some other suitably modern mode of communication?
They do use modern forms of communication. They just still call the messages cables:
Foreign exchange dealers refer to the sterling/dollar exchange rate as “cable”.
And somewhere in the process, the electronic messages will pass along cables anyway.
In the case in point, the leak may well be down to good old human malignity, as would be more consistent than technological shenanigans with the known route to publication, and the principle of cui bono. But that might be straying from the purely factual.
Next on Ripleys’ Believe It or Not, we still call it “dialing” a phone!
And my mom still says she “taped” a show when she records it on her DVR.
My mom’s iPod is full of books on tape.
I’ve heard people “film” things with their iPhone.
Obviously there’s a parallel in change of medium, but you say this as though it’s an occasional quirky usage. Is there some other verb for making a continuous visual recording? I can’t think of one. Isn’t this standard usage, regardless of recording medium?
I can’t remember hearing that for a long while. Audiobook seems to have taken over.
Every time you “turn on” a device without actually turning anything.
Shooting footage or videoing?
record or capture
Yes, I guess that’s more common if you’re not making an actual movie. Or I suppose we’d just say “I recorded it on my iPhone”, since there’s little need to restrict our recordings to audio now so we don’t often do that.
“Footage” isn’t any less obsolete than filming, because it refers to the length of film strip used (in feet).
And I’ve often wondered, outside the United States, do they call it “meterage”?
Don’t get me started on screen…
Another person surprised by the OP’s puzzlement.
Eyeglasses have not generally been made with glass for some time.
Old terminology persists. One of the oddest in computing is getting a core (memory) dump. Core memory died in the early 70s. At least we’re not using the phrase “mercury memory dump”.
I don’t know what they used to call it in Norwegian in the film days. Definitely not meterage. But today it’s all “opptak”, “recording/s”.