Cool Past Pics

Feelin' Groovy? This is how you dressed for high school in 1969

Wise words to live by

Danny Devito in high school in 1960s

Gillette performing Short Dick Man on a kids TV show called Xuxa in Brazil, 1995.

First semi final this evening with Finland going mad for a Käärijä, a bloke with a pudding bowl haircut and inflatable green sleeves who sings about getting wasted on piña coladas.

In honour of father's everywhere, here's John Goodman with his daughter in 1990.

"My favourite photo of Dad and Nichelle Nichols on set." Adam Nimoy, 1968

Michael Jordan playing Pac-Man at UNC in 1983

A public service message from 1982.

Robin Williams and Christopher Reeves in 1981. By this time they'd already been friends for years, since studying together at drama school in the 70s

An Italian anti-fascist partisan in Florence, 1944

American soldiers on their way home from World War II, 1945.

This cheeky chappy is the American author of marvellous horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels @StephenKing, in 1952, aged just 4.

In 1966, this 5 megabytes of computer data, in the form of 62,500 punched cards, took 4 days to load.

A Texas women's track team practicing, 1964

Saundra Brown, the first black woman on the Oakland police force gets instructions on how to shoot a shotgun, 1970. She is now the Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

2 year-old Elvis Presley with his parents, 1937

Lady Gaga's mother, Cynthia Germanotta, as the head cheerleader for West Virginia University in 1976

Alexey Pajitnov — Soviet programmer, and inventor of the game "Tetris", 1980s