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TV's Frink wrote: there was no internet in the late 70's or early 80's.

Here are some posts to usenet from May 1981 about 'Star Wars'

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?safe=off&q=%22star+wars%22&btnG=Search&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=6&as_maxy=1981&as_drrb=b&sitesearch=

back then a well worded letter to the editor of a sci-fi publication or film magazine was just as powerful as today's internet postings.

We have no power whatsoever, as evidenced by the fact that we're still using this forum and this petition after all of these years. Few mainstream media outlets or people know about us, and fewer still actually care.

Yes, but who says there weren't complaints? You can easily compare it with American Graffiti which also got an updated title sequence in '98. There are fans who don't like it but most people don't care or first take notice when they suddenly see a big walking dinosaur in front of the camera. These minor alterations have a better chance to succeed with going unnoticed by the large crowd, you can still to this day hear people that are confused by or unsure if Star Wars had a title number in its crawl back in '77.

These are so minor the average person probably won't notice them. I don't LIKE them, I wish the wouldn't happen, but they're different than the exensive changes made to Star Wars or THX. Like I tell people who think I'm just fixated on nostalgia for what they see as inferior versions, there's a major issue of film preservation here.