"Far out in the uncharted
backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy
lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly
insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so
amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat
idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people
on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested
for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements
of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't
the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them
were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
Hello, strags and fellow hitchhikers. Welcome to my Hitchhikers' site. Although I am not exactly a fanatic fan of Douglas Adams, I have read all the five books in the Hitchhikers' "trilogy" and have enjoyed them immensely. This gave me the idea of creating an online Guide for others to enjoy. There have been many online Guides presently on the Web, the best of which is Vogon Heavy Industries' JavaScript version. However, it is written solely for Netscape users only, and since we MSIE users are being left out, I decided to create one of my own, hopefully one that can be used on all platforms. The logical choice is course the increasingly popular Java language. This is my first Java applet. When learning a language, I believe in jumping right into the thick of it.
I must say that I believe this must be the first Java-enhanced Hitchhikers' Guide to appear on the Web, since I have visited a lot of sites at the time and have not seen one. I haven't heard of any other one either.
"... he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million 'pages' could be summoned at a moment's notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words Don't Panic printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitch hiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in."
Visit my Home Page
Click here to activate the
Java-enhanced Hitchhikers' Guide!
If that doesn't work, click here instead. It's currently written in good
ole Java 1.0. Someday I'll update it to the latest and greatest version of Java...
*NEW*
I've written a J2ME (Java 2, Micro Edition) version too! It doesn't run on
any mobile device right now as the files are too huge. :-P But you can try
it in a web-based emulator here without the
memory constraints you have on a mobile device.
Someday I'll also put up an HTML version and a WAP version, but I'm not going to load up 100+ entries one-by-one unless I find a free web server with FTP access.
Visit Vogon Heavy Industries'
Online HHGTTG! Now with multimedia!
Also visit BBC's official
H2G2 Hitchhiker's Guide!
Warning! Do not press this
button!
Play the Hitchhikers' game here! I also have the walkthrough.
Buy & Read the Hitchhikers' books!
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First appeared on the Web on Tuesday, 6 January, 1998
Last updated on 26 May 2003
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