Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?

[dicque]

Hey everyone,

Hope someone can help me here because this is driving me a little batty.  Many weeks back, the hosts were discussing the dying medium of newspapers and Mark used a word to describe newspapers.  He said its a thing that people cling to that's inefficient and outdated but still exists for a niche market or just because its always existed and people don't know a remember a time when it didn't.  I've been Googling different phrases hoping to get a hit, and short of listening to all the shows over the last several weeks, I just can't remember the word!  Does anybody out there remember the word or know what I'm talking about?

Whoever helps me receives a giant dose of karma

Thanks!

[Turd Ferguson]

Was it "Luddites"?

[PC Harris]

anachronism

[FreddyFreeman]

So the term you're looking for refers to the people who cling to the outdated thing and not the outdated thing itself, is that correct?

[freeAgent]

...antiquated?  I'm not sure.

[FreddyFreeman]

obsolescence?

[alaric89]

i like to call myself a "fuddy duddy". It is my belief technical progress peaked about '76 or so.

[Turd Ferguson]

I'LL TELL YA WHEN EVERYTHING WENT WRONG RIGHT NOW! ITS WHEN THEY STARTED PUTTING MALT SHOPS IN THE GOD DAMN WALGREENS. YEAH, THATS WHEN THE YOUNGSTERS CAME ALONG WITH THEIR DOPE AND OTHER MONKEYSHINES AND IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT THE SYPHILIS AND GONORRHEA SHOWED UP.


DAMN YOU WALGREENS AND YOUR FANCY, NEW FANGLED MALT SHOPS!!!

[alaric89]

We didn't have no Walgreens. Only refreshment we could get when I was a kid was when the local trading post shopkeep would turn the hose on us.

[Diogenes The Cynic]

We didn't have no Walgreens. Only refreshment we could get when I was a kid was when the local trading post shopkeep would turn the hose on us.

We didn't even have a local trading post. We had to hitch the wagons up, just to get out of town.

(anachronism)

[Crotale]

Hey everyone,

Hope someone can help me here because this is driving me a little batty.  Many weeks back, the hosts were discussing the dying medium of newspapers and Mark used a word to describe newspapers.  He said its a thing that people cling to that's inefficient and outdated but still exists for a niche market or just because its always existed and people don't know a remember a time when it didn't.  I've been Googling different phrases hoping to get a hit, and short of listening to all the shows over the last several weeks, I just can't remember the word!  Does anybody out there remember the word or know what I'm talking about?

Whoever helps me receives a giant dose of karma

Thanks!

Archaic? Vintage? Retro?

[Turd Ferguson]

We didn't have no Walgreens. Only refreshment we could get when I was a kid was when the local trading post shopkeep would turn the hose on us.

He only did that because you guys were dirty little monkeys.

[alaric89]

In hindsight, throwing the poop was probably a bad idea.

[Bill Brasky]

Sibilance, sibilance, sibilance.

[talkativeshut]

I admit I won't be able to help you with finding out the word, but the way he described newspapers is really annoying. It is not outdated offshore merchant account, it is just that there are no affordable high-tech mediums available yet that can be bought by everyone from the poor to the rich and that you can safely read as you sip your coffee. Newspapers reach any kind of people and that s why it stays as a good source of the current state of the world