Last updated on January 16th, 2025 at 05:46 pm
There’s cool, and then there’s the timeless “old-school cool.”
Whether it’s the punks of the 1980s or sophisticates from the 1880s, each period has its own version of cool.
Let’s take a moment to reminisce about the rad, the awesome, and the awe-inspiring figures from the past
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Susan Kare, famous Apple artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM. (1980s)
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Phil Collins in the 1990s.
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Epic 80s moments
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Mark Hamill and Annie Potts on the set of Corvette Summer, 1978.
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Les Paul and Paul McCartney
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Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge, 1950s