This visual timeline of the STAR WARS saga compared to years in the real world is blowing my mind

[jhbadger]

@thomdunn

Also, the folks born just before the fall of the Empire in the late 1980s would have absolutely grownup in ignorance before being radicalized just in time for the sequel trilogy, that tracks.

Weird that the collapse of the Empire ends up so close to the revolutions of 1989 and the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, though.