I wouldn't call it competition or even ironic, if anything they are complementary - H2G2 could never hope to approach the accumulated geek knowledge contained within the nodes of Everything2 and, although Everything2 has its share of amusing entries it could never surpass the depth of humour that H2G2 manages.
H2G2 tries and succeeds at inducing guffaws while maintaining a smattering of fact, it is in the very nature of DNA fans (who make up the majority of H2G2 researchers) to find the humour in the mundane.
Everything2 is a resource at heart whose noders are geeks and techies and while many of them are also DNA fans the nodes emphasize fact with an amusing edge. Kudos to the many busy noders and researchers out there who keep the two site growing.
For those of who haven't found it yet, there was a related article posted a while back about SeaNet check it out, aparently the largest transfer they've ever done was a 22MB file in about an hour, not bad for the middle of an ocean.
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I wouldn't call it competition or even ironic, if anything they are complementary - H2G2 could never hope to approach the accumulated geek knowledge contained within the nodes of Everything2 and, although Everything2 has its share of amusing entries it could never surpass the depth of humour that H2G2 manages.
H2G2 tries and succeeds at inducing guffaws while maintaining a smattering of fact, it is in the very nature of DNA fans (who make up the majority of H2G2 researchers) to find the humour in the mundane. Everything2 is a resource at heart whose noders are geeks and techies and while many of them are also DNA fans the nodes emphasize fact with an amusing edge. Kudos to the many busy noders and researchers out there who keep the two site growing.
For those of who haven't found it yet, there was a related article posted a while back about SeaNet check it out, aparently the largest transfer they've ever done was a 22MB file in about an hour, not bad for the middle of an ocean.