h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So, anyone up for a bit of reminiscing? Want to talk about things that made you , things that made you , things that made you or just plain ?

Right; in a determined show of starting the ball rolling, whatever happened to the ongoing voyages of the Esirpretne? Have they boldly gone?

I remember when it was all green fields round here!

...those first few days in the life raft, when the shock hadn't worn off and we had to idea if we'd ever get back or what (Shudder).

Abi - it must have been hard if you lot knew the plug was to be pulled, but you all carried on posting and chatting as normal, right up to the foop...

It sure made me appreciated the simple sophistication of H2G2!

Well we didn't know the plug was going to be pulled. We knew when the deal was signed that the site would go down for a bit, but we were as shocked as you lot when Mark came in said the deal was signed and that the site was going down.

Just think guys! With the Beeb there is no need to make a profit, so no annoying banner ads, no pressure to buy Eric Clapton articles

Cool, but instead we'll have adverts for Steve Coogan on Radio 4, and Neighbours on BBC1

I'd prefer the dead cows any day. *obscure reference to the eyestorm ads*

Peregrin you old cynic!

No bitching in the party zone please.

Oh and I don't think my banner-modifying scripts would go down too well now

*wonders what to do with his banner ads that proclaim DNA is an alien, h2g2 is run by drug traffickers, etc....*

oooooh Peregrin I think that might be defamation!

Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!

So what was your first 'Accepted Entry', speaking of nostalgia?

Mine was a contribution to original call for International Driving Etiquette. I was rather stunned that it was added to the 'Approved Guide'. I didn't know the whole procedure back then and I just added some comments and suddenly I got an email congratulating me.

Ah, life was simpler back then...

At least I was able to do more online drinking then...

A description of the easyEverything internet café in Tottenham Court Road, London. I wrote it on the spur of the moment, as well. I saw that loads of people had contributed dozens of entries, and thought it would be great if I started doing that instead of just lurking around random fora.

I must have recently reverted to my bad old self, I guess.

*starts to think*

*brain keels over*

Same story here, except mine was for Word of the Day.

Don't try too hard Abi, you might injure yourself

My first edited... hummmmm... *wades through subedited articles* why can't they make a new list for subeditors' subbed entries, instead of shoving them in with their edited entries of their own? It's annoying, although I have had a few people dead impressed by the amount of articles I've 'written'...

Anyway, my first edited (do you remember when they were called Approved entries, not edited? And weren't they called something else before that?) was 'Bwlch, Wales, UK' - the village where I grew up. I doubt it would make it into the edited guide now as it takes the piss a bit, but is far more interesting as a result, I think

Is the Word of the Day moderated yet? That was one that was hidden after I'd gone through all my old pages...

How do you pronounced Bwlch, without it sounding like you're vomiting?

"Official" wasn't it?

Hmm... Odd.. it was up when I got here.

Ah! I see my mistake now.

Stoopid glasses.

Read the article
In fact I'm certain that none of it would get in now... I'm surprised it survived the moderating actually.

Aaaaaaaah, happy days.
*grabs a nearby and starts to reminisce*
My first proper edited guide entry must have been.... ooooh... er..... Pop music? Or Public Information Films.