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“Cool” is eternally cool.
67 might still get ironic reactions like millennials do for 69.
I do like the joke of being able to do cross generational references with “68 ± 1”.
This is my guess too. I personally knew of some examples dating back to the 70s using it, but apparently ‘coolness’ as a term has been around since at least the 15th century.
Cool as a slang term in modern usage dates back to the late 1920s. It’s been a sustained century of constant usage
That’s so cool.
69 is older than that and it’s still here
I don’t think Cool is even slang anymore. It’s just a descriptive word