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

Amazing how you can master h2g2 in a matter of months, meet the community, write entries, ask questions, give answers - and you can still be surprised by it after years Why else would we have regulars from way back in 1999?

Incredible that h2g2's been around five years, eh? I look forward to celebrating h2g2's sixth birthday next year... and I'm firmly convinced I'll still be here.

Downright amazing.

Indeed - isn't it amazing?
There are many sites on the Internet which have brilliant success, and many which have failed miserably. I hold h2g2 to be a brilliant role model for any site which is based on its community - it's done all this, without even a single banner, popup, or other advertising tactic (well, there is the top banner, and pre-BBC there were adverts, but not so intrusive as those you'd find on some Netster page for instance) in sight.

, h2g2! And here's to another semi-decade of Hootooness!

And also how ironic that we keep getting 'Service not available' messages

And by the way - congratulations on a fantastic ADDTHREADINTRO. By far the greatest use of the MARQUEE tag I've seen in ages.

I'm sure the entire city of Dayton, Ohio joins Jodan in wishing h2g2 a happy birthday. It's the kind of place that would do something like that. If you don't believe me, go visit Dayton and see for yourself.

aka, you're very right. And the Add Thread Intro had better be good... it took me ages to perfect!

Quite a shame... I couldn't post this for about 10 minutes after I wanted to.

I'm sure it's just clogged up with people giving their best wishes to h2g2

Yes, aka, no ads until Hypatia just posted

He's close enough to Dayton to smell it, you know.

I wonder how long h2g2 will last? I guess we'll all have to stick around to find out.

An ad for a whole city?

"He's close enough to Dayton to smell it, you know."
*I* am close enough? That must be a slur on Dayton then, because I'm waaay over the other side of the Atlantic.

H- enough Dayton jokes. I limit myself on the Webb City and Missouri joke *stern-look*

Sure an ad for a city. Las Vegas does it occasionally.
I've seen an ad for a whole state. Florida and California do it all the time.

You said you wanted tourist dollars. I was just trying to help. I even used English.

*completely fails to get it*

And the ad for cities thing - you mean tourism ads? I can understand those.

Just being

It appears we are beginning h2g2's fifth year encased in webjellow. Nah, too sticky for webjello. More like marshallow cream. How long, oh Lord?

Dayton, and Nighton, and Evenington as well.

Jodan, I'd like to ask if you were on board in 1999? If so, you'd be a bit earlier than me.

Also, I'm seeing references to the demise of someone named Bels. This isn't someone I knew. Could you tell me a little about Bels?

I came here in early 2003... Relatively new in fact. You're definitely an older hooter than I.

Bels U188050 was someone who wrote contributed a lot to h2g2 - in the forums and in the EG. He was diagnosed with bowel cancer in May, and passed away this week. See F19585?thread=277219.

I didn't know him as well as I'd have liked to, but what I did see of him was a great and intelligent person.

I can't remember whether I came in 2000 or 2001.

Cancer is a horrible way to go! It seems to run in families. I know a man who lost three of his children to brain tumors. He's had to help raise some of his grandchildren.