Janskeet said:
I would like to see what these Usenet forums looked like and what people were discussing in forums about the OT before it was even complete. Do you people know anymore about this?

... I assume this Usenet was very primative by today's standard and you could only send text form one computer to another and there was no fancy forum GUI and such.

I've been using Usenet since 1991. I can't really remember what it looked like back than, I think it was accessed via a VT100 or Kermit window on my Amiga, plugged into the university network.

I still use it now on occasion, using Outlook Express (ugh!). Obviously there is a huge Usenet archive you can access through Google Groups, if you use the advanced search you can turn up Star Wars-related posts from '81 to '83.