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


Susan Kare, famous Apple artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM. (1980s)



Phil Collins in the 1990s.


Uncle and Nephew playing poker, c. 1978.
Princess Diana look-alike contest in Washington D.C., 1985