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

We're always being asked 'Just what is h2g2?' and it's so hard to clearly get across in one simple line the magnificence of the site. We quite often say things like 'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything written by you' but it still doesn't quite get across to outsiders exactly what h2g2 is!

Can anyone help us come up with a brilliant, pithy one-liner that provides a clear answer to the question 'What is h2g2?' when asked by a complete newbie?

It needn't be totally different or anything. For instance, what about 'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything written by the public.'?

Or, 'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything written by the public, inspired by Douglas Adams.'?

Or, 'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything - Share Your Knowledge, Learn Something New'?

Your ideas, as ever, will be most welcome.

h2g2 is an internet interface between people and their own ideas as inspired by the works of Douglas Adams who had this idea that people might like to be able to interface with the technologies that were about to destroy the whirled but had no idea who to talk to about it and would probably hate the word interface anyway.


~jwf~

I just pith on it myself.

'the Public Guide to Everything - Browse, Write, Comment'

I read that as 'pubic' guide... *ahem*


How's about: Douglas Adam's Guide to the Galaxy - as written by you, the public, from all over the universe. Probably.

Hootoo's just this guide, you know?

Woymondo's nailed it I weckon.

Guide? don't talk to me about Guide.

RF

"The dolphins knew, now you can too!"

MMF

"Know the answer, but can't find the question? You're in the right place!"

MMF

Question: Who wrote:

"Dr Who is the Beeb’s biggest money-spinner and I can’t understand why they don’t just start making them again, if only to stop those 30-year-old virgins posting crap about Cybermen on H2G2. Get some dandruff shampoo, floss regularly, stop listening to Coldplay and get a life. Losers."?

a) The BBC
b) The Guardian
c) 2legs














Did you get it?

it was

a) the BBC

(the Editor of the Collective, to be precise) : http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1064008

It lets the universe enter your world.

A bit cheesy I know

'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything: you can flounce off for good...but you'll always come back.'

Everything you didn't know you needed to know.

Gif

H2G2 - beyond definition. Come and see why...

I know, I know...I'll get me coat.

t.

hootoo, slightly less expensive than the Encyclopaedia Galactica.

Hootoo, you will wonder what you were doing all these years.

mini

h2g2: it reaches the parts other online encyclopedias cannot reach.

And one could start a whole campaign based on bad puns on the word 'parts' . . .

'To definition,and beyond!'

'HooToo is You, Too!'

'We Search. Research, You Search.'



MMF

"The unexpergated guide to LTUAE"

Appendices - 'Within the confines of the POTB! No sex, drugs or Rock and Roll-ups!'

MMF

I think Robyn nailed it:

>>Douglas Adam's Guide to the Galaxy - as written by you, the public, from all over the universe. Probably.<<

I'd add Hitchhiker's though:

Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - as written by you, the public, from all over the universe. Probably.


How many new people coming here know who DNA is though?