old behaviors returning: I.E. pocket watches->wrist watches -> smartphones
 

i find it sort of interesting that the actual physical action people use when they want to tell time came back a century or so after being out of use.

any other examples of this?

We still stay we dial phones, cell or landline, despite the fact that we're just picking a name out of a list and letting the technology do the work. The idea of dialing remains, even when we are just punching numbered buttons.

"ring up" is a phrase I hear a lot more now instead of dial.

I think that's only Anglophiles. You live in an area that has a lot of those.

People have gone back to having goods delivered, and even knowing the delivery man.
Many of the staffroom have "internet" deliveries from Tesco, ie food ordered online that comes in a van to the door. Now that's old fashioned. Cook used to send someone with a note to the butchers, the bakers and the greengrocer, but the delivery of food is the same.

Also ordering food from specialist shops. The Upper Classes would have everything delivered when they went to their country retreats. Imagine trying to get decent foie gras in rural Buckinghamshire! Hahaha. Now I can log onto a website in the Wirral and have Char Siu Bao delivered to my door. (I could get foie gras too, but I don't agree with it and anyway, I can't afford it).

Same with mail order. It's of a more recent vintage, but Dad used to save up and send a postal order for records he could not buy locally. Now he orders on a debit card from Amazon, but the music comes through the post the same.

Plus ca change...

There are a fair number of families around here who have their milk delivered.

They swear the milk is really delicious, but I looked into the price and there is no way we can swing it.

Several of my hippie friends do the milk in glass bottles thing. It is organic and grass fed and costs somewhere around $9 a gallon, I think. It's nice milk and all, but I can't manage the cost, even without the delivery fees added onto that.

My hippies don't get delivery. They drive their Chevy Volts to the hippie food store.

We live within walking distance to several dairy farms... Cold milk so fresh it's still warm.

ISWYDT... lol

You want fresh milk? Drink it straight from the cow. It's both nutritious and mildly arousing.

For you or the cow???

Ha!

we still use the hebrew equivalent word of dialing with a dial phone for punching in numbers or picking a a name from a list... and i am not sure if israeli culture can be considered Anglo-Saxon in any way. unless you consider all cultures influenced by modern culture to be anglophile in terms of historical causality, but that's really a stretch of the term...

then again they did use to rule this place before us...

I was specifically referring to classic's use of "ringing up" someone instead of calling, which is a British usage. As is the term "knocking up," but I don't know if that's in use any longer. With respect to phones, anyway.

Actually my neighbor's use the terms knocking up or ringing up, as well as a few friends. None are English as far as I know. Interesting.