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Same way you still dial a phone or roll up a window.

• grogenaut 3y ago
  The window is still going up via the same rolling mechanism there's just a motor doing it. Source I replaced my window motor and regulator this month
• mc32 3y ago
  but windows cannot be rolled up... they could be cranked up, or pushed up, or slid up, but they're not pliable enough to be rolled up.
• retrac 3y ago
  There's a term for that: linguistic skeuomorph. With a stylus on a tablet was how the ancient Romans and Sumerians wrote. That imagery and history is evoked when those words are used to refer to portable computers. They were chosen by analogy with historical understanding. It's like when you pattern the plastic tiles to make the floor look stone or wood. There are iconographic skeuomorphs too, like when someone born in the 21st century taps a floppy disk icon on their computer to copy data, when they have never seen a physical floppy disk.