Throwback in a sentence as a noun

Beyond that it's a throwback to Java version 1.

The throwback to iPhone 1 is interesting but count me out.

The best I can think of is a throwback to Bill Gates' emphasis on measurement.

Their website, their content, and their business model is all a throwback to last decade.

It is a throwback to the days when people programmed computers through primitive teletypes and IBM punch cards.

Throwback in a sentence as an adjective

It's just a municipal government by another name, but with fewer safeguards, and a throwback "votes only for landowners" style of voting.

Given Linksys has long no longer been 'Linksys' been 'Cisco' been 'Belkin' been Marvell, I don't anticipate it superseding the thrown despite the classic throwback black and blue livery.

Against Donn's and Marianne's creation, it looked antique: no structured programming elements, line numbers essential for GO TOs, primitive graphics commands, limited data types:a throwback, in a word.

The economist is further left than throwback traditionalist movements like Islamism or the US Evangelical Right, on the rightward side of the consensus liberal-democratic center, certainly right of socialist movements.

Throwback definitions

noun

an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism

See also: atavist

noun

a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

See also: atavism reversion

adjective

characteristic of an atavist

See also: atavistic