People were much cooler before the new millennium.

Baggy jeans, bucket hats, and cigarettes, oh my! The nineties were an effortlessly cool time when Eddie Vedder hung from the stage of a festival. Over on Reddit, people love to boast about how hot their older family members were back in the day. The photos on r/OldSchoolCool are the perfect example of how much we are losers these days. 

Alongside family photos posted online, there are celebs from the era doing incredibly era-specific things. Paul McCartney is seen lighting a cigarette for Damon Albarn. Orville Redenbacher is seen playing dinosaurs with his great-grandkids. And my personal favorite, Fiona Apple is seen knighting a man on the streets of New York.

Scroll down and get your swag up by seeing the forefathers of cool