Flashback to 1997 – Netguide Magazine

Speaking of flashbacks, here’s another, harking back to the early days of Star Wars on the web… 1997 was, of course, the year we saw the Special Editions of the Original Trilogy screen in movie theatres around the world. The cover of the May ’97 issue of New Zealand’s NetGuide magazine teased the topic “Star Wars goes Web”. Star Wars news, and the official Star Wars website, was still in its childhood back then. Check out these pages, via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, of the rudimentary StarWars.com: Special Edition Confidential, Why the Special Edition?