{"id":549,"date":"2004-09-02T13:01:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=549"},"modified":"2004-09-02T13:01:57","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T17:01:57","slug":"h2g2-bbcs-unconventional-guide-to-life-the-universe-and-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"h2g2: BBC&#8217;s unconventional Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC took over, in 2001, the h2g2 server which is the site for <a title=\"BBC - h2g2 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/\">The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a>. It is a community generated encyclopedia with an attitude. This Douglas Adams inspired reference tool is where I found a page about <a title=\"l33t speak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/000548.html#more\">l33t speak<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSome quotes, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to h2g2 &#8211; the BBC&#8217;s unconventional  Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything. It&#8217;s like an encyclopedia, only better because all of the entries are written by member of the public &#8211; people just like you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like the wikipedia with dry Brit humour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>h2g2&#8217;s inspiration comes from The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy, the best-selling book by Douglas Adams (who was one of the original founders of the site). Back in 1971, Douglas lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, thinking about the galaxy and how you might find your way around it. His solution, the &#8216;Guide&#8217;, was an ingenious device that offered advice about almost any place, object, entity or event you might care to name &#8211; all at the convenience of your fingertips. This vision is now approaching reality on the Internet in the form of h2g2. (from the Help Page)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC took over, in 2001, the h2g2 server which is the site for The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy. It is a community generated encyclopedia with an attitude. This Douglas Adams inspired reference tool is where I found a page about l33t speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}