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Post 1

Peta


Thank you for being so enthusiastic and kind about h2g2.

We couldn't have done it without you. So a very big thank you goes to you, the h2g2 Researchers. Thank you for coming into h2g2 and filling it with such great entries.

You are doing a great job.

smiley - smiley

- Peta


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Post 2

Researcher5

Hi

I also work full time here at TDV and I'd like to echo Peta's thanks. We are very lucky with the team of people who work here and seem to be equally luck with the people who have chosen to become members of h2g2 and are helping it to grow.

Sooo... thanks right back to you too.

R.


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Post 3

Jim Lynn

One thing that continues to delight and surprise me about h2g2 and its denizens is how nice people are to each other, and how much they enjoy being nice.

The internet can be a very murky place, as anyone who has ventured into USENET will know. I'm glad that h2g2 is a place where people can come and not immediately feel excluded. New members are welcomed with open arms, and there's always someone around to help them out if they get stuck.

And much as I wish I could take credit for the way it's happened, I'm afraid all the credit goes to you - the people who are making h2g2 what it is. Keep up the good work.


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Post 4

Richard

When h2g2 first started I was, as I always am, optimistic - my glass is half full never half empty. BUT ,or non as they say in Russia where every statement is qualified, I was aware that I'd dabbled with a half a dozen other community sites and came away thoroughly disillusioned. Now I'm not a computer kind of a person - just need one because I'm so dyslexic and find typing solves a whole bunch of problems and the saved files are a boon to my memory - so my history of concern wasn't that informed. However I kept asking myself why should h2g2 be that much more enticing to me, and millions like me, than those I'd dipped into? Because the roots of the idea are so strong, because of Douglas, because of the team, because the net was maturing came my own answers to my own questions. Yup - lots of reasons to fire the starting gun. And what I like so much now that I look back is that I smile every time I realised what we launched. I dip in and out of the forums, submit entries and use my journal most days. So I smile happily a great deal. Thank you everyone - very, very much


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Post 5

Oscar

Thank YOU smiley - smiley

we wouldn't be around if it wasn't for the huggy little lambs that use the site and keep it a fun place to be smiley - smiley

and I'd like to thank my parents, my brother, my friends, my lecturers, my next-door neighbours cat, my trousers... etc... etc...


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Post 6

Ant

Is this a company conferance or something smiley - winkeye


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Post 7

msmonsy

it is a smile attack smiley - smiley
just reading the entries and thinking about how right they are makes us all smile smiley - smiley
monsy smiley - fish


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Post 8

shazzPRME

I echo that smiley - smileysmiley - smileysmiley - smileysmiley - fish
lots of smiles!
shazzPRsmiley - winkeye


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Post 9

World Service Memoryshare team

Can I start off the thank yous again?

Thank you for being kind and nice. Big slaps on the back for everyone. Much appreciated.


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Post 10

msmonsy

i just LOVE this site smiley - bigeyes
makes me smile everytime i visit smiley - smiley
thank-you to all the wonderful researchers who make this site what it is smiley - smiley
monsy smiley - fish


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Post 11

Prez HS (All seems relatively quiet here)

smiley - smiley Smile? smiley - smiley
Sometimes I find myself actually LOL!

It's that distances are so large, or else i'd just start a pat-your-neighbour/editor-on-the-back session, since all the above-said is true. maybe it can be done for me during the christmas meets held everywhere.

Did anyone ever think that just wanting to assemble a guide to the Earth would turn out to be a little world itself? *ponder, ponder*

smiley - fishsmiley - smileysmiley - fish


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Post 12

Anonymouse

And I'd like to thank Researcher 5 for posting to this forum so I'd stumble onto it from        's page. smiley - winkeye


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Post 13

Researcher5

You are very welcome.
R.


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Post 14

Hypoman

I must admit, I too think we're all pretty wonderful - but then I'm biased...smiley - winkeye I cannot look at this site without smiling somewhere, and I look at this site quite a lot nowadays.

Thanks, everybody: all 30 000 of you, plus all the others who look but can't bring themselves to write anything yet, and even the editors and staff at TDV, who have been OK to me since I arrived...smiley - smiley!


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Post 15

Prez HS (All seems relatively quiet here)

nah, you're not biased at all.

we're just pretty wonderful.


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Post 16

one~X~ace~WayneCraigFredericks

May I say you're welcome and thanks too?
Research continues, I have a special mission tonight!


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Post 17

shazzPRME

Sounds intriguing!!
shazzPRsmiley - winkeye


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Post 18

Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here

On behalf of the researchers from far-away New Zealand I would like to endorse the comments posted above. For us, h2g2 makes the Northern Hemisphere countries/people seem closer.

Hmmm, is that a good or a bad thing?

Opens bottle of beer and sits back to think about his own question smiley - bigeyes

Are there any plans to promote h2g2 downunder? About six months ago it had one plug from NZs largest ISP. I have seen nothing further about it in the media. smiley - fish


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Post 19

Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here

...and of course I then find this posted at
http://www.xtra.co.nz/homepage/entertainment/main/0,1166,Entertainment%3ANews+and+Gossip%3A,00.html

This is the the site of New Zealand's largest ISP (400,000 people)

"Hitchhiker's Guide" Creator Hits Cyber-Space
Bestseller goes online
Douglas Adams, the author of the sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has launched an equally offbeat website aimed at creating The Earth Edition of the Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything.

The site - www.h2g2.com - asks the public to become "researchers" who provide details on eccentric themes connected with daily life.

Current contributions cover issues ranging from driving etiquette in India, the taste of Marmite and the London Underground (US subway) to toenails.

Adams, 47, has sold more than 15 million books worldwide.

The website has been launched through his company, The Digital Village, with backing from venture capitalists and the US computer chip manufacturer, Intel.


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Post 20

shazzPRME

Hehehehe! You pre-empted our scoop there didn't you LOL
shazzPRME smiley - winkeye


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