It's interesting how some terms become standard and then last beyond them making sense. Including a few that have multiple meanings so context is required. Like "record". It's main meaning is a permanent account, but it also means to make one, and there's the usage that covers phonographic discs. Thus recording a record on a record makes sense. 'course you could call the physical object a "vinyl"... but that requires context as well. Then you have words like "movie"; that is a moving picture presentation.... which comprises of "footage", even if the "recording" is on a non film format. Heck "film"; that seems to mean a coating, but it's still used to describe non-chemical processes.
Then you have the crazy terms like "WiFi". That's derivative of "HiFi".... for whatever reason. It's just marketing and never made sense.
But regardless of relevance, often there's no alternative. I sometime stop myself when I'm using archaic terms like "footage", but I then realise that people know what you mean, even if they don't know the history. And what else would you say? "Video"? I suppose. But "footage" has some useful connotations that it's part of a greater whole. Well to me at least.
Anyway, no real point to this rant as usual. Just ranting.
