What they were saying in 1983 on the internet

But what percentage of the public got on the net back then, less than 1 percent, I'd say.

 

What were they saying on the internet?

Damn dial-up!!!

 

That is so cool! Funny to see how bashers already existed back then... Gosh! Whatever Lucas does, there will always be someone to complain!

In one thread, they brag about the fact that the ending of ROTJ was "too happy". If only they had seen the PT before (particularly ROTS) they would have been desperate for a happy ending!

Some things never change...

 

Funny, but not true. In 1983 there was really no such thing as a GUI to bog down a system or fancy graphics to make a 400baud connection seem slow. Unless you were doing a "extremely large" (and quite rare) file transfer--like an entire megabyte or something--there would have been little to no latency. Also, dial-up was practically non-existant for internet connections because the Point-to-Point protocol wasn't available for non-unix machines. The word "terminal" was used, rather than "computer" because most internet users weren't on a computer, they were on a terminal attached to the big unix computer elsewhere on campus which was inter-networked with other computers. If you were someone with a personal computer, it could not actually be connected to the network but would use a terminal emulator that would connect via modem and data rate would really only matter if you needed to pull a file from the computer onto your PC--but why?

 

I'm so annoyed by people who think they know everything, and just can't admit when they're wrong. You dangle proof in front of their faces, and they still think Palpy is a clone, or the internet only started up after Windows 95 became popular. Ugh.....

 

There have been an internet so to speak sents the late 60s. However I can't believe someone used the word Dail-up back then. Is this fake? Back around 83 I would use dail up to access local BBS systems to talk about Star Wars however I wouldn't call it a dail up back.

Is this stuff fake?

 

My question is when did Al Gore invent the internet then...was it before or after 1983? heehee

Former user of an Apple IIc

 

The review in the New Yorker is worthwhile reading. May 30th, 1983. The reviewer blames the director, Richard Marquand, for losing all the inherently fantastic moments available in the movie. He notes that Luke's confrontation with Darth and the Emperor was at least as full of potent as a scene from Hamlet--and that Marquand's direction squanders all the plot potential.

Ha!

 

Lots of interesting stuff here, but I think the saddest thing I read is this post:

But, what will Episodes VII, VIII, and IX be about? Will the
Empire rise into power once more, lead by a sinister, new leader?
Or will a new enemy terrorize the galaxy?

*sigh*

 

if im not mistaken the first internet browser was made back in 1992. mozzila as it was in a joint venture with netscape. how would you even browse to a chat group without a browser.

 

That some funny stuff in there. Someone had a lot of time on their hands to make that group on Google.

I can't believe people are actually debating whether or not this is real. Come on people.

 

if im not mistaken the first internet browser was made back in 1992. mozzila as it was in a joint venture with netscape. how would you even browse to a chat group without a browser.

The Internet is not just the World Wide Web. Mozilla is a web browser, not just a generic "internet browser".

 

this is seeming more real to me.. weird.

 

I was apart of BBS's back in the '80s, around 1983 I was accessing some local BBS's... however they were very basic and the BBS's didn' really start getting sophisticated (for the time, of course) games and message boards until 1986, and the golden age being 1989 - 1996 until the Internet became mainstream and basically wiped out the BBS's in my area. Thanks to telnet I can still access BBS's from afar, but I miss those days with a passion. I was apart of many Star Wars discussions back in the day though.

 

If every "good" person who died appeared in holograms, Luke's aunt and
uncle, not to mention all those Rebellion fighters, would have appeared
with Obi-Wan, Yoda and Anakin. If it were the case that one must be a
Jedi knight in order to die and turn into a hologram, Luke would've had
to deal with a horde of dead Jedi holograms. Therefore, the only ones
who could appear as holograms would have to be people Luke knew during
his lifetime who were Jedis and died "good." This would explain why the
Emperor wouldn't show up in Luke's holograms.


Holograms= Force ghosts
Forrest sleds= speederbikes

I wonder what things from ROTS will will we name something stupid and later look back on.
My money is on "sith eyes".

 

I wonder if my grandkids will ever argue about if it was really an internet before anybody had implants to jack in. I bet they'll think that we complained all the time about how slow it was before global terabit wireless networking became commonplace.

 

Good Find. Pretty interesting to see what people said back then.

 

Very nice! I enjoyed this quite a bit; man, these guys were even bigger geeks than we are:





In the rebels' holographic simulation (a beautiful effect), the Death
Star is shown in a geostationary (well, endorstationary) orbit. It is
also shown as being only a few Death-Star-radii from the surface, and
certainly less than one Endor-radius.


There is a contradiction here. For the stationary orbit to be that
close, either the planet spins in only a few hours, or it has very light
gravity. The scenes on Endor's surface showed no evidence of either of
the above.


Possible fixes: even when only partially operational, the Death Star
could levitate; or maybe the shield generating station also provided
levitation until the Death Star's engines came on line. Or maybe the
planet did have very light gravity, but there was a humongous mascon
right under the shield station, providing "normal" gravity in the
immediate area. Except that you would expect a lake to collect...
---
Jef


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Gee, I'm ashamed that I didn't catch that one too. On the other hand,


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Gee, I'm ashamed that I didn't catch that one too. The Death Star
was obviously Endor-stationary because it had to sit within the
stationary beam of the force field station. I suspect that it
was "levitated" by the force field; that means that they didn't have
to blow it up, it would just have crashed on the planet surface
when the force field was destroyed!


Phil


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Come to think of it, I have a (weak) piece of evidence for my earlier
assertion that the Death Star was not in stationary orbit but was rather
being held up by the force field: the existence of gravity on the station!
(Of course, I know of no Star Wars sequences featuring zero gravity, so...)


Phil


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I had the impression (from the Alliance Simulation) that it was in
geosynchronus orbit about that moon. Of course one might question
whether such a small body would be able to hold an atmosphere long
enough to evolve Ewoks.


The physics guffaws that gave me the jollies were the fireballs in
vacuum. Oh well, I've learned to accept sound in vacuum ...
--


Chuck Forsberg, Chief Engr, Computer Development Inc.
6700 S. W. 105th, Beaverton OR 97005 (503) 646-1599
cdi!caf

 

I've looked at these before and they're great. But this was, by far, my favourite part of any of the posts. In reference to the PT:

All this needs is good acting (*where* are they
going to find someone good enough to play Alec Guiness (pardon me, Ben
Kenobi) as a young man??), not flashy, gratuitous special effects,
excepting one scene where Kenobi throws Anakin=>Vader into the volcano.
I only hope that Lucas can withstand the hordes of popularly opinionated
types screaming and yelling for space opera. (Three were nice, more
would be painful.)

Oh miss 1983 fan? I give you the mythical land of ... Scotland. That's where. I'd love to go back and introduce them to 'Wedge's' 12 year old nephew

And hordes of opinionated SW fans?! Never!

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

whoa... I can't believe that this person thought that force ghosts were holograms instead of force ghosts lol thats kinda funny...

 

solojones that post you unearthed is rich!

 

I like this discussion about the internet. I graduated from college in 1995 (God, has it been that long already??).

At the time, the engineering labs did have internet access. No graphics, just text. I remember the UseNet groups well (I used to debate why my Alma Mater, Penn State, should have been National Champs that year instead of Nebraska) because there were bulletin boards for all sorts of stuff, just like now.

There were also primitive forms of chat rooms. The one that I used the most was called Speedway. The nomenclature we use now (31/m/PA) was already in use at that time. I was blown away that I could talk to people in real time through a computer. LOts of fun.

The week of my finals senior year, the chem engineering lab had all of its computers upgraded to have access to the "World Wide Web". I didn't see the point, the graphics took forever to download. I spent 10 minutes looking at the "Web" before heading off to pack up my dorm room.

Just thought I'd share

 

Moving up to save.

 

I only hope that Lucas can withstand the hordes of popularly opinionated
types screaming and yelling for space opera.

Wow, that was a prophetic statement!

 

wow... that's really a great discovery!

is anyone who posted back then now around here on this forum ...?

since when does this board exist anyway?