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

OK, here goes...


yes

If you know the name of any of the photos which are already on the site, then you can use them on your personal space.

why am i still on the old hootoo??

ahhh theres the rub... knowing the names of the photos
...are they called blobs or is that art work?

but yaaaaay i can if and when i find the phantom photos !

thanks you two

and btw icy north... is that a forest fire behind the clown?!

It's the BBC's offices on fire. The photo was taken during a recent server explosion at White City.

riiiiiiight

the clown seems more sinister now

is it implicated in the fire?

is it dead?

why is it smiling?

and btw is this what some clowns look like in britain?
cuz it looks more like rudolph the red nosed hobbit to me

he he he he

The clown first appeared in 1967 on BBC Test Card F: http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/bbc_test.html (scroll down the page).

Test cards were broadcast during the days before 24-hour TV. Interestingly, a growing number of people have said they would prefer a return to the Test Card rather than watch BBC Three.

"I don't think the BBC will allow us to upload pictures, because it is too easy to upload a picture which you did not take yourself and pass it off as your own. That would be a breach of copyright."

Except when we did get to use our own pictures we couldn't "upload" them, we could merely link to them. \thus, we didn't breach copyright, but were occasionally guilty of "bandwidth theft", which is no longer such an issue. (It's been a long time since I saw a hosting package that would shut your site down for a month if 100 people looked at it...)

"Interestingly, a growing number of people have said they would prefer a return to the Test Card rather than watch BBC Three."</quote>

Test Card W ("Widescreen") is still available on Freeview: http://www.techwatch.co.uk/forums/25161-hidden-freeview-testcard.html

"Blobs" were the old-style pictures on h2g2; they haven't been used in about 5 years, but you'll see them on some older entries. Many people use the word "blobs" to refer to any picture on h2g2.

To put a picture on your page, find the picture on another page. Look at the address field at the top of your screen. You'll see something like this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A6817034

Change the A just before the number at the end to "test":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/test6817034

This will show you the GuideML behind the page. In there you should find the code for the picture. In this case it is:



Copy this into your own page. You must get everything from the

Brilliant - just tested it - a BBC Easter Egg!

far out dudes


here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_test_card

Peet, "linking" to pictures on other people's sites is a contentious issue and could be considered to be in breach of copyright. This type of linking (Deep Linking) where the picture appears on your page as if you owned it, is considered to be theft by many people, so it is very unlikely the BBC would allow a return to it.

omg

look what i found!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Images_of_test_cards#Gallery

Fluffy, we've not done one for photos yet, but here's the old blob library: A692741

And the new one KB and I have been compiling: A53308361 (Anything drawn by an h2g2 Community Artist that's not in the old library.)

Just copy and paste the code from the boxes next to the images into your PS, and the pictures will show up. (Provided it's in Guide ML.)

I remember 405-line TV, and the fuss when they introduced 625 lines.

my goddess !

the WORK involved!!

ok i am bookmarking both of those pages thank you

The waiting is going to give me a caffine overdose

Ditto.