It always strikes me as funny when I hear on TV or in a movie with builders or architects in it, references being made to the 'blueprints' of a given building. Please note that the word ’blueprints’ has not been used in Architecture Community, nor normally not in the Construciton industry as a whole either, for what, about fifty years, when plans where still printed using a method that rendered them in the negative and were in fact, blue. Later, we would refer to 'prints' and 'plans' when the method changed to a positive printing method. These were distinguished as 'back line' (most of the time), or 'blue line' or even 'red line', because the process would turn all our lifework thusly, depending on the color of linework we wanted for the drawing. Now generally, we refer to the 'plans', or 'drawings', or 'documents' (my personal favorite).
Another anachronism is the word 'I-beam’. This is a profile of steel that is no longer manufactured - also since many decades. Steel beams still may outwardly look like 'I-beams' but they are not made the same way and they are typically called 'wide flange beams' or just ’steel beams' if one is just talking about the metal beams in general and doesn't specifically know what beam will be provided in what shape.
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