Tech is rife with these: 37 examples of anachronyms - English in Progress <https://englishinprogress.net/blog/30-examples-of-anachronyms/> On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM gsteemso via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'll add two more:
- A Dr Who episode in the 1980s showed the Master pulling a recording of all of history out of the TARDIS... it was a rather convoluted tape carrier, as big as he was. (I think the idea was it was supposed to be like a map, so you'd know where in history you were... but it was a tape. Even Isaac Asimov's stuff set thousands of years in the future tended to assume everything would be on tapes, or in some cases microfilm.)
- We "turn out" the lights, even though they generally haven't been gas-powered since the nineteenth century.
G.