Old school

In slang, "old school" or "old skool" can refer to anything that is from an earlier era or anything that may be considered "old-fashioned". The term is commonly used to suggest a high regard for something that has been shown to have lasting value or quality.

It may refer to:

Music

• "Old School" (Hedley song), a 2008 single by Hedley
• "Old School" (John Conlee song), a 1985 single by American country music artist John Conlee
• Old School (quartet), the 2011 international gold medalist
• Ol' Skool, an American new jack swing group
• Old school hip hop, also known as Old Skool
• Urban oldies (radio format), also known as Old Skool
• "Old Skool Love", a 2005 single by Divine Brown
• Moog old school, an analogue synthesizer produced by Moog
• "Old School Love", a 2012 song by Megan and Liz
• "Old School Love", a 2013 song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Ed Sheeran
• "Old School", a 1995 song by Tupac Shakur
• "Old School", a song on the album ReliXIV by Overkill
• "Old School", a 2006 single by Danger Doom
• Old School, a 2011 box set by Alice Cooper
• Oldschool (Nena album), a 2015 album by Nena
• Old school rave, a form of rave music

Film, literature and art

• Old School (film), a 2003 film
• Old School (novel), a 2003 novel by Tobias Wolff
• Old School (TV series), a 2014 Australian television series
• Old school (tattoo), a traditional tattoo style

Computers and gaming

• Old school gaming, the hobby of playing and collecting older computer, video, and arcade games. Also called "Retro Gaming"
• Old School RuneScape, a currently playable version of the MMORPG RuneScape which is based on the game's state in 2007.
• A reference to hackers and hacker groups that operated prior to Eternal September, also spelled "01d sk001".
• OSRIC, Old School Reference and Index Compilation, a compilation of rules for fantasy gaming

Others

• A professional wrestling aerial technique used by The Undertaker
• A production made before the mid-1990s in demoscene
• Koryū, translated as "old school" or "traditional school", a category of Japanese martial arts
• Old School–New School Controversy, a schism of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America