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Posted Oct 29, 2011 by Chris Morris
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  | | Mina, is that an official explanation or a personal opinion?
On the first point - would you advocate burning Shakespeare first folios because you can't keep things forever? OK, there weren't any Shakespeares in BotF but there was a lot of good writing there.
As for the second point; you will find at least one BotF thread on my list of conversations that became an h2g2 thread when my space defaulted to h2g2 on the archiving of BotF. One of the main points of BotF was that it was Douglas Adams's idea and, when I signed up, there was a strong impression of a close relationship between h2g2 and BotF.
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| | | Subject: The Book of the Future has disappeared
Posted Oct 30, 2011 by Chris Morris
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| | I can't pretend to understand that reply and I would prefer not to get entangled in an argument over this.
However, I would like to quote Ashley Highfield from his introduction to the printed version of the book: "This book was Douglas Adams' idea...(his) company began gathering ideas from the public on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy website. He and I also began to discuss how best to bring his ideas to life. After his untimely death in 2001, the BBC decided to keep the site going and rehoused it on BBCi. The Book of the Future sister site was created in October 2002..."
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