The banner ad on that page said “Stop marketing like it’s 1978”
Looks kinda like tape going through the guides on old reel to reel players I thought or film through guides in a projector.
Dictionary.com: a bound or loose-leaf book consisting of blank pages, pockets, envelopes, etc., for storing or displaying photographs, stamps, or the like, or for collecting autographs.
The clear analog for this is a collection of songs. Any CD, DVD, or packaged set of digital songs can clearly be called an album. I will continue to do so.
Really? Damn good thing my daddy taught me 'Lefty loosy,Righty tighty"
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And every now and then there are times when you will run into the occasional left hand thread and it will be "righty loosy, lefty tighty. :rolleyes:
I believe “clockwise” is an acceptable technical term, as is “counterclockwise”.
Read the OP much? You’ve illustrated the point perfectly. The term was originally used as a literal description; now that the original meaning is obsolete it’s used as an analog, and you’re perfectly welcome to continue to do so.
Every term in my list is still in use today. That’s why I put the “oh wait” at the end of the post.
I (didn’t) see what you did there! :smack:
I have a DVR. Every once in a while, I will absent-mindedly say I taped something on it. Easy to do, especially since it has VCR-type controls on the remote.
I’m 52, by the way.
I don’t about everyone, but among me and mine, clicker and icebox have been dead for decades. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anyone use the word “clicker” to mean a TV remote and the only people I hear that say icebox are either 103 years old or are doing it ironically to sound old-timey.
It’s very possible “tape” could go the same way as these, but as Jragon said, the concept of taping something with an actual tape only just disapppeared, so there are a lot of people out there that will be familiar with it.
Plus, most people are stilling taping things as DVR pentration only reaches into 30% of US homes. There are still a lot of VCRs out there.
I try to use the phrase “record” or “videorecord”, but I’m so used to people asking me to “film” a show (it’s not film, it’s digital data that is temporarily stored on tape and/or plastic disc and/or hard drive and/or RAM) that I just accept it.
And many consumers use the term CD to mean DVD and vice-versa. To them, it’s round, about 5 inches across, and it plays in some kind of player. And really, the major distinction is only the amount of data that can be recorded on it. It would be wrong of me to tell them that it’s a music CD but a video DVD, since music can be put on a DVD and video on a CD.
I agree with this. I worked as a service tech at Circuit City from 1988-2000 and although I was only in my 20’s-30’s during that span, a lot of the other techs were true old farts. I must have heard the phrase “remote control” a hundred times every day and “refrigerator” a hundred times every week. Never once do I remember hearing anyone say clicker or ice box.
Although I did occasionally hear a capacitor referred to as a condenser. Not sure why that one refused to die.
I never heard clicker much until I met Mrs. Geek. Her family uses the term a lot. Since then I’ve noticed a lot of other folks using it too. It’s not dead around here, though we personally do only use it in kind of a slangy way. If we’re at home, we’ll say “where’s the clicker?” but if we went to the store to buy one we’d probably ask the clerk for a remote control.
I wouldn’t say icebox is completely dead either.