Britain's security service, MI5, has admitted underestimating the persistence of these throwbacks, and has stepped up its efforts to counter them.

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What do you think -- are today's platforms really revolutionary or are there still too many throwbacks to ideas that are thirty years old?

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Sir Michael and his staff of officials have a uniform of knee breeches and swords, which appear to many as quaint throwbacks to a previous age.

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If you're looking for a cooking rose to grow organically in your garden, Barash recommends the David Austin varieties, which are throwbacks to old garden roses.

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Two of the American Impressionist works here are 20th-century throwbacks.

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Regional Settlements: The Bush administration has been assiduously working to develop agreements with Moscow that will end various regional conflicts between former superpower proxies now viewed by Washington as expensive throwbacks to the Cold War.

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On the other hand, at some future age when most cars drive themselves at safe and sound speeds, these throwbacks to what might be considered a golden age of motoring could well be highly valued for their sheer audacity.

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For a few precious frost-nipped weeks, these museum-piece cities of Olde World Europe flicker back to the Middle Ages -- not the ossified medieval throwbacks of soot-blackened cathedrals and tourist-bedeviled museums, but the living, breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace.

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One theme was tech throwbacks.

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