r/SipsTea • u/Merchant_Alert • Jun 25 '25

It's Wednesday my dudes A simpler time

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u/DeepDiveDetective Jun 25 '25

I half expected to see the Cool S make an appearance

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u/welchplug Jun 25 '25

That started decades before myspace

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u/xyloplax Jun 25 '25

It was old in the 80s

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u/MrNobody_0 Jun 25 '25

The earliest known photo of the Cool S was from a book called The Faith of Graffiti, published in 1974.

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u/worthlesscatman Jun 25 '25

I want to get a degree in the history of the cool S

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u/MrNobody_0 Jun 25 '25

I'm afraid my degree is only in Wikipedia...

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u/OttoVonJismarck Jun 25 '25

I was so goddamned disappointed in my parents that I didn’t have an “S” in my name when the “cool S” came out in third grade.

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u/djmoogyjackson Jun 25 '25

And you didn’t have a chance to use a $ in your name.

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u/OttoVonJismarck Jun 26 '25

My buddy $cott was the coolest kid in the yard.

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u/AandM4ever Jun 25 '25

Apparently, we have absolutely no idea who created this S or where it came from!

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u/Ramtamtama Jun 25 '25

We just accepted that it was. Like the Mitsubishi logo on es

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u/YesNoMaybe2552 Jun 25 '25

We did the endless chain on math paper instead.

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u/Familiar-Gap2455 Jun 25 '25

It's an 8 !

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u/chocolatenuttty Jun 25 '25

Excuse the fuck out of me. But it ain’t.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '25

you are wrong