h2g2
Sign in to saveThe h2g2 website is a British-based collaborative online encyclopaedia project. It describes itself as "an unconventional guide to life, the universe, and everything", in the spirit of the fictional publication ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' from the science fiction comedy series of the same name by Douglas Adams. It was founded by Adams in 1999 and was run by the BBC between 2001 and 2011.
Key facts
- Website.name
- h2g2
- Website.screenshot
- H2G2 website.png
- Website.screenshot_size
- 220px
- Website.caption
- The h2g2 front page on 24 May 2015
- Website.type
- Internet encyclopaedia project
- Website.language
- English
- Website.registration
- open
- Website.owner
- Not Panicking Ltd
- Website.author
- Douglas Adams
- Website.content_license
- Authors retain copyright but grant NPL a non-exclusive licence to distribute
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Terms and conditions
- Software
- DNA
- GuideML
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
The h2g2 website is a British-based collaborative online encyclopaedia project. It describes itself as "an unconventional guide to life, the universe, and everything", in the spirit of the fictional publication ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from the science fiction comedy series of the same name by Douglas Adams. It was founded by Adams in 1999 and was run by the BBC between 2001 and 2011.
The intent is to create an Earth-focused guide that allows members to share information about their geographic area and the local sites, activities and businesses, to help people decide where they want to go and what they may find when they get there. It has grown to contain subjects from restaurants and recipes, to quantum theory and history. Explicit advertising of businesses was forbidden when the site was run by the BBC, but customer reviews were permitted.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “h2g2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.