Comment by em3rgent0rdr
6 months ago
Yeah. It is not too uncommon for terms to refer to how things were done in the past or in another context. For example, we still "dial" a number on our phone even though rotary phones are no longer used...for other examples see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misnomer#Older_name_retained
That's the same context (making a call to a phone number) with a different implementation.