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back in the days when beards were serious beards

• noir_lord 1y ago
  We still have serious beards kicking around. The Linux folks, Andrew Kelley etc all qualify as True Beards.
• paulddraper 1y ago
  That’s…sarcasm?
  • kragen 1y ago
    You don't think Ken's beard was serious?
  • zabzonk 1y ago
    Nope - simple observation!
  • pjmlp 1y ago
    It is most likely, related to how growing one nowadays is a kind of hipster thing with the trendy barber shops decorated as if they were western barber shops scattered a bit all over the globe.
• eesmith 1y ago
  The serious beards were a century earlier, when the terms "sideburns" and "mutton chops" were coined, when Dickens had a doorknocker beard, when Thomas Nast drew Uncle Sam with a goatee, and very few men were clean-shaven. One of the early pictures on that page shows Ken Thompson didn't have a beard in the early 1970s.