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

Welcome to H2G2

My name's Bistroist and I'm one of the Guide's Assistant Community Editors (ACE's). We're a bunch of volunteers who roam this place trying to be as nice and helpful as possible, and meet and greet as many newcomers as we can.
If there's something you need help with, or just want a few links to some of the cool places in here, I suggest you visit our common homepage.
http://www.h2g2.com/A214796

I'm not sure if you know this already, but there's a welcoming message to all newcomers over here
http://www.h2g2.com/A5752

Other questions you'd might like to ask? Try the "ask H2G2" and "How do I..."-forums
http://www.h2g2.com/A148907 and http://www.h2g2.com/A242470

btw. In case you haven't noticed, the "Don't Panic" button in the top menu bar links to an occasionally useful help section.

You might notice that many of the pages in here (including the ACE's page the last time I checked) look rather empty at the moment. This is because there has just been a major server update-rewrite-something(don't look at me, I don't know nothing 'bout computers ), which has changed some of the ways Guide entries are written in. Don't worry about it, they'll probably be up and alive again soon.
The main change is that the way h2g2 looks has been fundamentally changed, you're probably looking at the new look right now, as that is the default for new users. If you want to see how the old one looks, click on the button that says something like "edit details", and try changing the goo from Alabaster to Classic. The improvement in Alabaster is that there were some serious loading time problems in the Classic goo, which has been greatly reduced in the new.

Don't worry if you don't understand any of this, just stick this in your ear

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