Found out my old job title is basically extinct now, wild

I was looking up my first real gig from 2009, I was a 'webmaster' for a small shop in Dayton. Turns out that title barely exists anymore, it's all front-end dev or full-stack or whatever now. Saw a stat that only about 1,500 jobs still use that exact name nationally, which blew my mind since everyone had it back then. I even found my old job posting on a cached page, the duties look laughably simple, like updating a photo gallery and fixing broken links. Anyone else have a job title that just vanished, and how do you explain it on a resume without sounding ancient?

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beth_ward801mo ago

Did you catch that piece on NPR last year about how job titles shift so fast now that a whole generation of tech workers basically speak a dead language on their old resumes? That webmaster title is a perfect example of a whole career path becoming a historical footnote in less than two decades.