It's not always easy to remember what you were doing thirty years ago, but on May 25th, 1977 I remember what I was doing. My father wrote a note of some kind to get my brother and I out of elementary school that day, and he took us to San Francisco to stand in a long line of excited movie-goers where Star Wars was opening at the Coronet Theatre on Geary Street. I noticed the BBC was featuring 30 Pieces of Trivia About Star Wars. I think we must have gone to see that movie like three or four times in the theatre, it was so different and new and amazing. My dad got tickets to an event held sometime later at UC Berkeley with George Lucas and all of the lead technicians from his special effects company Industrial Light and Magic.
Another thing we did together thirty years ago (last month) was go to the First West Coast Computer Faire, where I saw Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in their little booth demonstrating the Apple II computer for the first time in a major public venue, along with other cool things from the beginnings of the personal computer revolution.
That kind of stuff really got our imaginations going and firmly cemented in our heads that if you could think it up, you could make it happen... Thanks, Dad!  
4:00:45 PM 
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