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

went. to www.hitchikersguide (please don't moderate...) 'cause I'm a DNA . The rest, as they say, is history.

I think I found it just by wandering around on BBC Online. But it was such a long time ago that I can't remember now. I do vaguely remember seeing DNA mentioning the site on the telly (I think it was one of those Tomorrow's World Live programmes) when it was first set up, but I didn't have internet then, so it went right over my head.

My only regret about joining H2G2 is that I spent about six months just lurking before I finally got involved in December. Nowadays I don't seem to visit many other sites at all, why bother when there's this fantastic virtual world sitting right at my desktop?

A registered better late than never puppy.

I came to H2G2 before the BBC, and before Alabaster (Nov 1999) after having spent some time lurking about in the forums of the official DNA website (you know, dot-com preceded by douglasadams) and there were a couple of people there that said they'd been to this site and liked it alot, and eventually, I decided to go here, signed up, and have been a part of it ever since.

I discovered the babel fish translator first, thought to myself, "How on earth to they get away with stealing DNA's idea? and clicked on a little fish at the bottom of the screen. Lo and behold, I was trapped .

*bump*

I heard about H2G2 maybe a year ago, but didn't have internet access and whenever I used library computers/internet cafes I only had time just to get the information I was looking for so never looked it up............that is, until I got my own computer last August, and having re-read all the hitchhiker books, felt ready to have a look. I found it by doing a google search on Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, found DNA's site, from which there was a link to H2G2! Voila!
Of course, I'm now well and truly addicted!

I found it in the dark days before editors... when there was Jim and the original TDV people... scary thoughts

I was twiddling around on ceefax and found some stuff on it about H2G2 and it's 'Tomorrow's World' launch, so I came, signed up and stayed. Back then there were still people desperately waiting for signed books to arrive because they were the very first...

My daughter joined and she wouldn't let me read over her shoulder anymore so I had to join up myself. Like has been mentioned before, I don't go into the scary world of the wider web now either. Unfortunately, I am still a lurker as I don't have the confidence to join in any conversations yet.

I started reading DNA in my middle school years, and have read everything I could get my hands on at least three times, and it's more fun each time. I decided to try to find some other books by DNA and therefore did a web search, only to find that he had passed on when I found his website. After looking through the site, I stumbled upon the link to H2G2 and signed right up, and have been a peruser of all things Guide-like since that time.

Steve

I think that I heard Douglas Adams talking about the h2g2 concept on the radio before it was really off the ground. It sounded great then and much later I stumbled across it somehow while surfing (can't remember how) and have lurked and occasionaly contributed here ever since. Rarely go to other sites, now.

You mean there are other sites?!!!!

A friend of mine lent me the h2g2 books in summer of 1999 and I read them in about a week... a few mere weeks later she and I were talking and she mentioned this site to me (when it was a .com-- ah, those were the days!), so I came and looked around for a few hours and decided, what the heck, I might as well sign up. I didn't get very involved for a number of months, but once I was hooked, I was hooked but *good*.

... and the rest is history...

I think I got here through the bable fish site (befor it became alta vista's, and there was a link r something.

Or maybe I was lookinh at hhgttg stuff and found both. I do know I found both on the same day (roughly 2 years ago.


Dancer

Does anyone mind if I use their anecdotes for the above entry I'm doing for Area42?

Ummm.. Nah, I guess not. Then again, if I say that I do mind, you'll probably just slap me with a trout at the Scot-meet, or something.

I don't mind you using mine. It's terribly dull though...

Looking back - I might have found it via Babel Fish as well. I was using it a lot at the time for a e-mail conversation I was having with a friend. She didn't realise I was using a translator, and was totally stunned 'cos she thought I could speak French, German, Spanish and Portuguese!

I did come clean in the end, though. She was almost as impressed as before - not quite - but almost.

Megapuppy

Well, I am one of the ever decreasing group who saw DNA announce it on TW in April 99. I've been here on and off ever since...

Woodpigeon (just realising he has been on this site nearly 3 years...)

Cool.. A 30k U-number.. Sweet. I came in about 6 months later and I got a 98k number..

@Megapuppy.
I'm impressed!


I found the site by reading Kelly's Eye, a column in the Mirror.
h2g2 were up for an award, so I went along & signed up. Almost two years ago....
As I read it, I thought I'd be typing out reports about cafes & restaurants.
I emailed all my friends & told them to sign up as researchers, I think they all did, but I very rarely see them online.

I saw DNA on Tomorrow's World too, but it was on the tribute programme that the BBC did, after he passed away.

All the friends I've made here...if I hadn't bought the Mirror that day, I wouldn't be here, I'd never have met you all.
I'd never have learned Bubblish, never have been in the Towers {old and new}, never have owned a BBC pen
Doesn't bear thinking about!