Apparently the first reference of "Star Wars" on the Net was by Randal Schwartz of Perl fame: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz</a><p>refs:<p>* <a href="http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html</a><p>* <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/net.movies/msg/1cf7b5461f1032f5" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/net.movies/msg/1cf7b5461f1032...</a><p>So maybe there is something to this?  May the schwartz go with you :)