"Luke, Vader, Father, David and Prowse"

Film Another example for the file marked "If the internet existed in the 70s".

In 1977/78, David Prowse told a fanzine and later a local newspaper that Darth Vader was Luke's father two or three years before the release of The Empire Strikes Back a story which doesn't seem to have been picked up or carried outside of the relative readerships of those particular organs.

Now, this would have been all over the web within seconds, with Luke, Vader, Father, David and Prowse trending high on Twitter for days.