Have you ever come to discover that the word album we use today had not been used the same in history?

Album, when it was in Rome first, has been used for a whiteboard that was used to inscribe public orders, commands, senators’ names, etc. Then it travelled to Germany, and Germans used it to keep a record of friends’ drawings, poems, autographs, etc. Finally, English loaned it to mean a book of blank pages to keep pictures, stamps, etc as memories. Till 1950, it had travelled to mean a collection of music or songs on a single disc or cassette. The collection of writings, artworks, etc is also called an album.