[Peanuts, November 25, 1978. Click for a larger view.]
Yesterday’s Peanuts is today’s Peanuts. Yesterday’s colloquialism is today’s colloquialism.
The first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary for this use of into — “interested or involved in; knowledgeable about” — is from Rolling Stone, January 28, 1969: “I tend to like the stuff the rock groups are doing because they're creative and original, and that's something I'm very much into.”
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1968???
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jazz_Pop/t3oJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22he%27s+into%22&dq=%22he%27s+into%22&printsec=frontcover
1967??
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Crawdaddy/T2oJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22he%27s+into%22&dq=%22he%27s+into%22&printsec=frontcover
Off they go to the OED!
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