The original record albums were collections of 78 RPM records in bound books of sleeves. That is, they were true albums. When LPs came along people called them “albums” because a single record could hold a collection of tracks, the same as an album of 78s. So the term “album” was already outdated (in the sense of the OP) when LPs supplanted 78s. I have heard this phenomenon called “semantic drift.”
I do not “deign” to use deign!
Anyone snap a picture anymore? Or look at a snapshot?
Interestingly enough, that is exactly the German word for typewriter: schreibmaschine.
</hijack>
I think a lot of these words will go forward in their present meaning, to the point where wordwise people will someday amuse themselves to discover the pre-digital origins. For example, many terms we use come from the age of sailing ships without most people realizing it: “by and large”, to have someone “over the barrel”, telling someone to “pipe down”, even the term “slush fund”. So it may be with “dialing” a number, or “rewinding” and “fast forward” to skip back/ahead in a song or video clip (even though there’s no longer a physical tape to wind).
It’s not just words but visual icons as well. (I was going to start another thread about this a few weeks ago but never did, so now I’m semi-hijacking this one.) For example, on nearly any smartphone or PDA I’ve used from Palm, BlackBerry or the iPhone, the symbol for the “calendar” app is a flip-up, ring-bound one-a-day kind of appointment calendar you used to see on a lot of desks, but I can’t remember the last time I saw one. And the icon for the “Contact list” or “Address book” is either (a) the image of an address book with the lettered tabs on the side, or (b) a Rolodex, neither of which I’ve seen in years and years either (though I still have such an address book at least 10 if not 15 years out of date somewhere in a box I haven’t unpacked from my last 2 moves).
The symbol for “voicemail” on my smartphones also looks like a reel-to-reel tape, as if from a cassette.
And the “Save” icon in many programs is a 3.5 inch floppy disk. When was the last time anyone saw one of those?
The “type” part would come from printing type. While they are a different size, the letters that strike to carbon ribbon in typewriter are similar in appearance and function to the type used for printing before offset lithography took over practically all of printing.
Good one. Very true. I can even picture kids today asking, “what is that a picture of and why does it always mean SAVE?”
Meanwhile, you should get this t-shirt. (For me, though, it is trumped by this one.)
I’m still waiting to find out why “drive” in this context is outdated.
See post #36.
Oops, sorry :o
Just this morning I was working on a circuit board design, and deciding what to put on the silkscreen layer when I realized that the writing on boards is probably not done by silkscreening anymore. Even if it is still done by screen printing, I doubt its actually silk.
But people (and CAD programs) will still call it that.
Right. ISTR a variant of this that added “But Moses scores on the rebound”
That’s Alexander Graham Winkle.
That would be Phil Esposito, thank you very much.
It has been a long time since anyone has ‘fired’ a rifle by touching the hole at one end with a smoldering taper. ‘Pull’ (the trigger) would be a much more logical expression.
Or perhaps ‘trigger’. But by any name the action definitely still causes some fire to be generated.
Which is fine until energy weapons replace rifles. 
Would someone be ordered to fire a railgun? Can you fire a death ray?
But seriously, I think I agree with robardin and his nautical examples that a lot of the words will continue on. It is cool to think that someday someone will “discover” their origins.
Hmmm, so what is the use of light sabers called? “Lightening a blow”?
Seriously! It sounds like an old but classic witticism I would have heard already.