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 w

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.