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Online Hitchhiker's Guide Thriving

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-a-towel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A company bought the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy website (h2g2.com) back in 2011 after the BBC decided to dispose of it as part of a cost saving measure. Although it still isn't a complete guide to to Life, The Universe and Everything, it has just celebrated its 14th birthday as a constantly expanding, user-generated work."

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  1. Encyclopedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It is said that despite its many glaring (and occasionally fatal) inaccuracies, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy itself has outsold the Encyclopedia Galactica because it is slightly cheaper, and because it has the words "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters on the cover."

  2. Re:Wikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    h2g2 started in 1999, a few years before wiki :p