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It looks like it was h2g2.com, thanks for posting.
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Yeah, that's it. Kinda brings a tear to my eye.
If I remember it right the BBC had archived it after the author's death - I really thought it was just an archived relic! Really good to see it's still surviving.
Hope someone on, say instructables, has put it on a tablet with a good 'DON'T PANIC!' home screen on it.
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had no idea, very cool!
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When my access to the net was super slow I downloaded an offline hyperlinked concise version of Wikipedia (mostly for developing countries).
This offline version for me felt a pretty important thing - you could classify that as a hyperlinked 'document' I guess.
This potted history of everything that had gone on so far reminded me of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - thankfully without any examples of Vogon 'Poetry'.
Here's a bit of trivia for you. Back in the early days. I used to buy magazines to learn about interesting sites (before search engines maybe?) The guy who wrote 'Hitchhiker's' (Douglas Adams, who was very into the 'net) came up with what I can only describe as a prototype to what we know as Wikipedia now. The site was h2g2 dot something or other.
Grandpa will shut up and go back to sleep now...