It's amazing how the references to old technologies persist in the new ones. We still refer to telephones as "ringing" even though they haven't had bells in them for decades. Everyone knows that telephones sound like bamboo xylophones.
business blunder of the past
- Thread starter darkbeaver
- Start date
Yes and no! Can't think of a word that covers all descriptions of noise, obnoxious or not!
Most phones now allow you to choose your preferred noise.
How many people still call a manual transmission a "standard" (although standard was actually the old three-on-the-tree) Or when you watch kids play "train" why do they make eccentric crank motions, chugging sounds and go "Woo-ooo Woo Wooooo)?
Most kids don't know what the icon means that saves their documents in Microsoft Word.
The "floppy disc" drawing is used as the "save file" button for Acrobat .pdf downloads in Windows.
Anyway, train locomotives in children's stories still go "choo choo choo" even though it has been three generations now since trains actually madema sound like that.
I think it's mainly a matter of semantics, depending a lot on when you are talking about. If anything I'd say for the past 40 years "standard" should refer to automatic transmissions. "Three on the tree" was common for a few years starting in the 40s.
Darn it!
Another example of my tendency to understate things at times!