The Skywalker Saga is over.

No, this time we really mean it.

Well, maybe.

But we've heard this before, both in 2005 and in 1983.

We learned of another trilogy in 2012 like it was a smack in the face.

No warning at all.

But what about the prequel trilogy?

Now that was a very different story. But what about the prequel trilogy?

Now that was a very different story.

Today is March 17th.

This is Forcecast daily. Take yourself back to 1983. The world was a very different place.

Want to talk on the phone? The world was a very different place.

Want to talk on the phone in 1983?

Well let me just read an excerpt from this New York Times article written in February

of 83.

As the telephone industry in the United States changes and more people buy their own phones,

cordless models that allow users to wander as they speak are capturing the fancy of a growing number of Americans.

2.4 million cordless sets may be sold in 1983,

according to one industry estimate.

But what about Star Wars?

We often discuss the time where Star Wars felt special.

1983 may have been the heyday for that.

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