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

I just realised it's my sixth h2g2 birthday.

9.9.1999 was a very busy day for a very young (pre Beeb) h2g2.

According to SEF's NewUser thingy A1157997 there were 35248 newbies like me signed on six years ago today.

Were you one of them? How many are left? If you weren't, are you jealous?

Wow, how this place has changed over the years.

Happy Birthday Count Zero!

I was one of those people (U32019)..

W

Happy Burpday!!

Shall we have a paaaaaaaaaarrrttttaayyy!!???


lil xx

Heck yea!

Coooooooooool!!

I will go and get the drinkypoos and the eats

Ok, ok - my party trick...


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Oh, I wish the "who's online" thingy was h2g2 specific. Back when DNA was a small place I would pull it up and there would normally be very few people between me and Jimster at the top of the list... Ok... granted there are usually still very few researchers' names between me and Jimster, or Peta when I check but there are now like one or two thousand below my name. What's with that?

BRILLIANT TRICK!

the new DNA thingymabobs.. even lil ol' me is having virtigo at the top of the list


Drinkypoos arrived!!

Food is here too!

All we need now is the ... and before I forget.. here is your too..

::opens ::


How did you know I wanted one of these ?

Currently online with low U numbers are

Kettu (U43427)
Freedom (U40491)
and Steve K (U56299)
Asteroid Lil (U81931)
and
Croz (U96736)

Hello Count Zero. Thanks for the invite to the party. 6 years ago, what was I doing...

Working in a university, still doing that.
Spending too much time on hootoo, still doing that.
Enjoying the odd (or several), still doing that.

Places change, what I do remains fairly constant

a little bird told me..

Traveller in Time one of the very new Researchers
"Congratulations, well, it takes a lot of effort to keep visiting this site !

Even more to quit but that aside boy."

I found this place when I got an email. I was looking for info on the highly delayed (typical of DNA) game, Starship Titanic. They sent me a rather ominous email with a link to www.h2g2.com. I really wish I still had that email (well, I might if I search my old computer, I might find it).

I think a lot of others that day found this place from some show called Tomorrow's World, or something like that.

happy birthday

Yes - Tomorrow's World is a science and technology programme on the BBC. A kind of "this is how the world will look in 20 years" kind of thing. Inevitably they get it massively wrong, but it has always been quite a fascinating programme. Douglas himself appeared on the show that launched H2G2, and his enthusiasm about his new website was infectious. The whole idea of creating an actual Hitchhiker's Guide was too big an offer to refuse.

I came here via the Starship Titanic. Does anyone have a flight schedule? I've been sitting here in the VIP lounge for ~ages~, it seems...

I have a sudden craving for the chicken with mustard sauce.

We did play Starship Titanic, but nanaged to solve it without any help, so I only got here after having read 'The Salmon of Doubt' - two years ago.