History of Computers: A Brief Timeline

For 22 years, Yoda was a foam puppet. He sat down a lot. Then in 2002, this scene played in cinemas and audiences cheered hard enough to shake old buildings.Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980. For two decades, every kid who grew up on Star Wars knew Yoda was supposed to be the most powerful Jedi alive, but no one had ever seen him pick up a weapon. George Lucas couldn't show it. The tech to make a small, fast-moving computer-animated character look real didn't exist yet.When his effects team f