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They can have an internet presence (leave a link here if you can), but the activity itself should be offline.

By ‘safe’ I mean where women, children, senior citizens, queer people feel welcomed and safe.

Often, when technologies get obsolete, words that originated to describe them, or things related to them, linger in the language.

For example, ‘dial,’ as in dialling a phone number, still persists in English, though most kids today would not know what to do if presented with a rotary dial phone. Or, for that matter, ‘hang up’ as in end a phone call, from the time when telephones were largish wall-hung things. Or ‘tune,’ as in ‘tune in,’ or ‘stay tuned,’ though we don’t tune our radios and televisions any more. or ‘film,’ for making a video recording or to describe such a recording. (My candidate for a word that has has most quickly become one of these is ‘podcast.’ The iPod was launched in 2001, but the term was invented in 2004, and now, I don't think most kids today would know what an iPod is. Do you know similar terms from your part of the world?)

Is there a word for this kind of word?

I found ‘fossilised metaphor,’ ‘commemorated metaphor,‘ and 'linguistic holdover.' (And, close but not quite, ‘anacronym,’ for an acronym that has become so common that most users won‘t know that they were originally acronyms, let alone what the initials once stood for, like scuba, laser, radar.) Edited to add: I also came across ‘dead metaphor.’