If, however, the new version becomes the standard, it loses the part of its name that identifies it as new or different, and a retronym is coined for the original.

Snail mail or smail ( from snail + mail ) is a dysphemistic retronym — named after the snail with its slow speed — used to refer to letters and missives carried by conventional postal delivery services.

The name is a retronym, and is a reflection of the telephone service still available after the advent of more advanced forms of telephony such as ISDN, mobile phones and VoIP.

In the late 1890s, the retronym " ordinary " began to be used, to distinguish them from the emerging safety bicycles, and this term or Hi-wheel ( and variants ) is preferred by many modern enthusiasts.

The term Generation 1 is a retronym ; the series was simply known as " Transformers " until the release of the Generation 2 series.

) The retronym " traditional Chinese " is used to contrast traditional characters with Simplified Chinese characters, a standardized character set introduced by the government of the People's Republic of China on Mainland China in the 1950s.

" It is a retronym, given upon the birth of one's first born son, and is used as a moniker to indicate the newly acquired fatherhood status, rather than a family name.

Even further, " AT-class " became a term describing any machine which supported the BIOS functions, 16-bit expansion slots, keyboard interface, and other defining technical features of the IBM PC AT ; in the case of the expansion slots, the term is largely synonymous with " ISA " ( when the latter is not applied as a retronym to XT-class machines, as in the phrase " 8-bit ISA slot ".

Text-based user interface ( TUI ), also called textual user interface or terminal user interface, is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces.

The term " Brass Era automobile " is a retronym for " horseless carriage ," the original name for such vehicles, which is still in use today.

It was called " the subway " ( Yonge subway is its retronym ) until 1963, then the " Yonge – University Line " until 1978, when the Spadina section was added.

The term Rāja Yoga is possibly a retronym, introduced in the 15th-century Hatha Yoga Pradipika to distinguish the school based on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali from the more current school of hatha yoga expounded by yogi Swatmarama.

Analogue watch is an example of a retronym.

The term " real number " is a retronym coined in response to " imaginary number ".

It is a retronym of sorts, as it was the only way radio networks were transmitted (" piggybacked " on television networks ) until SCPC.

The Commonwealth Liberal Party is often referred to by the retronym the Deakinite Liberal Party in order to distinguish it from the modern Liberal Party of Australia.

The term " single-handed sword " ( or " one-handed sword ") is a retronym coined to disambiguate from " two-handed " or " hand-and-a-half " specimens.

The Fraternity is a retronym used now to distinguish the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity from the co-ed Alpha Delta Phi Society.

The retronym upright bicycle is used to distinguish the style from recumbent bicycles.

This is most likely a retronym coined in Victorian times, similar to the widespread Latin name Cantabrigia for Cambridge ( whose actual name in Roman times was Duroliponte ).

Since the advent of new technologies such as electrical discharge machining, electrochemical machining, electron beam machining, photochemical machining, and ultrasonic machining, the retronym " conventional machining " can be used to differentiate those classic technologies from the newer ones.

It was the first combat sport that adopted the name of " Kickboxing " in 1966, later termed " Japanese kickboxing " as a retronym.

The iPod classic was simply called the iPod until the sixth generation, when classic was added to the name because other designs were also available-an example of a retronym.

; SHA-0: A retronym applied to the original version of the 160-bit hash function published in 1993 under the name " SHA ".

Originally, this system was just called Jetronic, but the name D-Jetronic was later created as a retronym to distinguish it from the newer versions.

Clerks ( retronym: Clerks: The Animated Series ) is an American animated sitcom based on Kevin Smith's 1994 comedy of the same name.

* retronym: a compound or modified noun that replaces an original simple noun, for example " analog watch " now means what " watch " used to mean before the invention of the digital watch ; and motorcycles became " solo motorcycles " when others were built with sidecars

It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS.

This retronym designation was placed to differentiate it from the Metro Rapid service ( before the advent of several Rapids, they were simply known as " Metro lines ").

* Paleopaganism: A retronym coined to contrast with " Neopaganism ", " original polytheistic, nature-centered faiths ", such as the pre-Hellenistic Greek and pre-imperial Roman religion, pre-Migration period Germanic paganism as described by Tacitus, or Celtic polytheism as described by Julius Caesar.

As the above meaning of a person or device supplanted the original meaning as the most common, the latter acquired the retronym " decoy pool ".

* Text-based user interface, a retronym coined after the invention of Graphical User Interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces

Another apple tree, later named the Golden Delicious, was also marketed by Stark Nurseries after it was purchased from a farmer in Clay County, West Virginia, in 1914 ; the Delicious became the Red Delicious as a retronym.

The term rectal tenesmus is a retronym to distinguish defecation-related tenesmus from vesical tenesmus.

The term " Para Jumper " is a retronym of the initials ' PJ ' that were used on an Air Force Form 5 ( Aircrew Flight Log ) to identify anyone who is on board in order to jump from the aircraft.

Almost at the same time the " penny-farthing " was introduced the older bicycles became known as " bone-shakers ", possibly another retronym.

The term retronym was coined by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and popularized by William Safire in The New York Times.

In 2000, The American Heritage Dictionary ( 4th edition ) became the first major dictionary to include the word retronym.

Although this television series had the title of Star Trek, it later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series ( Star Trek: TOS or TOS ) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.

So it was manufactured with known bugs, and became known ( as a retronym ) Revision A.

Unenhanced human beings, by opposition, became known by the retronym Oldtype.