I got the job through good old-fashioned connections.
This is where tech relies on old-fashioned connections.
Fibre to the cabinet provides fibre to the green street cabinets that are located in towns and villages around the UK but relies on old-fashioned copper connections to reach individual homes, meaning that the further a home is from the cabinet, the slower the service will be.
The Hilton in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, can charge such hefty rates because it offers a more old-fashioned kind of connection.
"You've got your documents right there, your contact lists Google has already removed a lot of those old-fashioned costs of connection and collaboration.
Typically connected over cellular and landline connections, old-fashioned voice calling is an expensive, outdated but essential part of how people communicate with their friends and family.
The Study at Yale — which plays up the academic connection with old-fashioned spectacles for its logo and a bookmark slipped into the sleeve for the electronic room key — did not disappoint.
Decrying these practices as old-fashioned not only destroys a connection the land and to food, it makes the public susceptible to trends promising various health benefits, which then subsequently change, hawking a different set of products.
There was great concern about a network connection — a now old-fashioned 9600 baud modem — that had been installed by scientific researchers linking Moscow and the United States, via a mathematics research center in Vienna.
To restore Sicilians' confidence in Cosa Nostra, Provenzano played the role of the old-fashioned mafia boss: solving problems, making connections, resolving differences.
