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

I am so proud to be part of h2g2 and intend being around for a long time to come.

Newbies are gonna the smileys (I mean, who else has a , or even a )?

100 years? I am sure there is already a cult of 2legs, the undisputed incumbent queen of h2g2, somewhere on the 'net. If not, there should be

GB

By the way, the typo on the British Library webpage is the 2nd instance "hg2g", not the capital letter at the start:

•H2g2 - launched in 1999 by Douglas Adams, and formerly hosted by the BBC, hg2g did Wikipedia before Wikipedia. A wonderful eclectic community which does the original source proud

although I guess hg2g would make more sense to some.

So it is.

I'm useually rather bad at spotting spelling mistakes... for some reason, but I just happened to notice that one
I do often worry, about future generations, looking back on the historical record.... They're only ever going to get 'edited' highlights, what happens by accident to be preserved, or what happens to be chose,for whatever reasons, to be preserved.... They may not get a fully fledged representation of the world as it is, only as how it seems to have been... But this has always been the case I guess... As ever the bits not present, are the 'interesting' bits, in some ways... BoB knows what future historians may have to say about the history of the late 20th early 21st C, if they base much of it on the contents of our website *thinks*

h2g2 has both contents and discontents. I'm not sure which tents are best for a camping trip, though.

Never, ever, take malcontents camping... Its just not much fun.... Mind, if we're quick, they've got a sale on at the Camping shop; yeh, its the discount of their winter-tents...

Good one, 2Legs! You're on a roll. Do you want butter or mayonnaise with that?

Why does that have to be an either/or sort of question.... Rather than with butter and* mayo and some bacon.... grilled chicken, sliced sausage, pastrami, a bit of salami (peppered), maybe a sliced tomato and lettuce, plus grated mature cheddar.... Mmmm....

Just had a cuppa! Nice

Nighthoover is a time lord. He will not be back

He will be forward

He cannot* be back.
He cannot* return.

"So I got stuck here then?"

He never left Eternal and immutable unchanging and resolute, forever and for all time.... Perpetual and forever. Praise be, mhrily so, ever thus forth as ever it was, and so forever shall it continue to be

Forever is an unfortunate word. Not even a Sequoia tree lives forever. Try to think of someone [anyone] who was alive 4,000 years ago. Do you know even the slightest bit about what that person was like. In the last 65 million years or so, no one has met a live dinosaur. Or a living trilobite. Cockroaches we've got; they were there before the dinosaurs came along, and will likely be around after we are long gone.

If any creature approaches immortality, the cockroach does. Correct me if I;m wrong, but no religions worship the cockroach. Why is that?

Okay, that's it. I got in trouble a few weeks ago for suggesting that I wanted h2g2 to be the 'roach motel of the internet' - somewhere you couldn't stand to leave.

Enough cockroach metaphors.

I don't remember that controversy, Dmitri. Relax! Roasted cockroaches and acorns will be a big delicacy when food becomes scarce in the coming decades.

I go away for the weekend and leave you all in the capable hands of the rest of the volunteer team, and look what I come back to! You've only gone and got us into the British Library!

I've actually just had another website I've built put into there through the day job, a medical/doctors/patient forum thingy that got such good results and interaction that it was considered leading edge. So now my count is at two?

This one though is by far and away the best. And to think, a couple of years ago it could all so easily have disappeared. It's been said, I'll say it again though, well done us!

Amen. Enjoy all your fresh reading today - get 'em while they're hot - and rejoice in the success.

all go there

"Try to think of someone [anyone] who was alive 4,000 years ago. Do you know even the slightest bit about what that person was like."

2,000 BC? I think Abraham was about then. He was a fantasist. Thought God was talking to him...

Cockroach church? Hmmm, now there's an idea!

I can see it now.... a huge shiney bright alter at the front, light by the sun coming in through the massive and tall stained glass windows, and every surface, wall, flor, cealing doors, covered in cockroachs... and flyirng through the air and in the middle, a giant, oversized, cockroach, resplendant in its ornate, ceramonial dress