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There's a lot of words we still use, even though the thing it referred to is no longer readily used. Hanging up the phone has been mentioned as one, but we sometimes still "dial" a phone number on our smartphones using the "dialpad", even though dial-up telephones are no longer readily used. Cut, copy, and paste refer to cutting up / copying a bit of paper and pasting it on another document, but in the digital age it means to move data into and out of the (digital) clipboard. The word clipboard now refers primarily to the digital version, as the physical ones are less common in comparison. We still film videos, even though most video cameras are digital. Most people don't use gloveboxes to store gloves. Uppercase and lowercase letters referred to the drawers used to store the moveable type for typewriters, which most people don't use anymore. Podcasts referred to the popular iPod, which is no longer sold by Apple. Software patches used to refer to how parts of paper tape and punched cards were cut out and replaced with literal patches to modify the program.* Stock footage is no longer stored in "stockrooms". Individual songs are still referred to as "tracks", even though vinyl is no longer ubiquitous. "Hot off the press" referred to how newspapers feel warm when recently printed, but now just refers to fresh media (usually not paper-based). To "sack" someone no longer involves an actual sack where they put all their things in, it just means to dismiss somebody from a job.
~~a lot~~ all of the ones I mentioned came from this source: https://englishinprogress.net/blog/30-examples-of-anachronyms/
relevant xkcd (there is one for everything): https://xkcd.com/3075/
As this xkcd comic shows, there are loads of anachronyms, like:
And the title text of the xkcd also notes that paper money is still called that, despite it now being composed of other materials with better durability and security.
*Note that the term "bug" did not, in fact, actually come from a literal bug. The term "bug" was already being used to describe annoying things (this is "bugging" me, for example), and the story of the moth trapped in a computer causing an issue was fictional. It was noted as a joke by Grace Hopper (a great pioneer in computing by the way, she developed some of the first computing languages!)
IMO, steel should get a pass. The atomic element of iron still makes up like 98% of most steels, and when you look at the history of smithing the difference between iron and steel can get pretty hard.
That's fair. Stainless steel isn't made almost entirely of iron though, usually there's around 20ish percent of chromium and something like 10% of nickel and other metals. It depends on what kind you're dealing with though, since different amounts of each element in the alloy are used for different applications.
Definitely not 98% iron content though, it's probably more like 65ish percent, give or take a bit depending on the alloy.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/stainless-steel
Brittanica says that stainless steel with very high corrosion resistance can have up to 35% nickel and 16 to 26% chromium, meaning iron makes up less than half of the alloy. In contrast, steels that are used in areas where corrosion resistance is not as important, no nickel is used and 10.5 to 27% of chromium is used, making the amount of iron relatively high. Very interesting.
Thanks, I didn't know that steel is often an alloy with such high amounts of other elements! I only went off the carbon content, which is usually around 1%.
...and IPods could not actually stream, so they couldn't use Podcasts.
My favorite is when we want someone to lower the window in the car, we still use the "rolling down" gesture from cars with hand cranked windows.