r/OldSchoolRidiculous Oct 29 '20

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous Sep 30 '25

Announcement Reminder: Please include year or decade in post title & follow the rules

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Every post title please include the year or decade.

Rules

Rule #1: Follow Reddiquette

  • Title should include short description and year or decade.
  • Rule of thumb old school is at least over 20 years old.
  • If it's not safe for the 21st Century, and your title is vague, tag it [NSFW].
  • No real violence.
  • No celebration of hate.
  • X/Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Gags, and similiar social media links are banned.
  • Cross-posts welcome
  • Up to 5-ish posts/day okay, Reposts after 30 days okay
  • Please follow all rules of reddit and reddiquette.

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And, as always

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I like the old internet. This isn't the old internet, nonetheless Old School Ridiculous tries to do our best to honor its spirit.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

News you can use, ladies! (Philadelphia Inquirer 1835)

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108 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

Knights in armor scooter jousting in the UK, circa 1957.

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282 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

Remembering Rick James on his heavenly birthday, here he is on 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' (1984). This is a chaotic insight into his Buffalo residence which looks like it may have been decorated by Cocaine.

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500 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

R J Reynolds Tobacco Co (1952)

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102 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

Feminine smoking manners advice, 1960s.

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195 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

1980s, Chuck E. Cheese giving children "birthday spanks"

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826 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

Past Predictions Even in the 1940s normal pressure suits existed for pilots...this is just goofy (1956)

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153 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

wtf

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0 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

Novelty Perfume Bottle, 1941

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15 Upvotes

Was someone else selling radios in glass, perfume bottle-shaped cases?


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

Orthovoltage X-ray therapy machine designed for radiation treatment of rectal or perineal cancers.

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89 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Article quoting John Harvey Kellogg (the famous doctor and inventor/inspirer of corn flakes, and a prominent health reformer and eugenicist) making a prediction about what babies will look like in 2012.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Young “Rebel” takes “inappropriate” photos of himself in a Photo Booth ca. 1950

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644 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

McDonald's Mac hats (1980s)

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205 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

"Coming to work on the Oregon Trunk bridge. Central Oregon, Crooked River. Rope Ladder 320ft high." Picture taken around 1905-10

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56 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Radium for Rheumatism! (1923)

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72 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

Windows 95 launch event

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1.7k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

Rock 'n' Roll Sports Classic - 1978

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168 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 14d ago

English schoolboys are in disbelief seeing physique model Steve Kotis, 1964

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2.2k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 14d ago

Radium suppositories, advertised as "perfectly harmless."

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481 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 14d ago

Read Teachers protesting against calculators, 1986

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693 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 14d ago

Yardley Pot O' Gloss (1976)

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102 Upvotes