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Old Tech: Not Forgotten And Not Even Gone

by Kevin Burton    The Dictionary Scoop website illustrated its list of old technologies with a picture of a cassette tape, but then didn’t see fit to include cassettes in its discussion.    There’s an oldie but a goodie, right?    Well I just bought some cassettes! I have a lot of music on cassette …

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Retronyms: The New Defining The Old

by Kevin Burton    We all know that time marches on. So does technology and so does the language we use to describe it.    Today from our friends at Merriam-Webster dictionary, we get some phrases made necessary by those inexorable marches. They are called retronyms. Think of them as a blast to the past. …

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