Reclaim the Word
For too long the word "dinosaur" has been used to mean "something old and inferior", and it's time this stopped. Dinosaurs did not die through any design flaw of their own; in fact, they were in their prime when they went extinct, with some of the biggest and most powerful members of their current clades emerging within the last few million years before their demise. (Tyrannosaurus, for instance, may have had the most powerful bite of any creature.) Rather, they were unceremoniously terminated and replaced with inferior creatures.
This is the new meaning of "dinosaur" I recommend: "something perfectly serviceable that is nonetheless replaced or followed by a far inferior copy". For example, Windows 7 is a "dinosaur". The first two Shrek movies were "dinosaurs". It just makes more sense.
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