H2G2 Is Still Relevant

Surprisingly few people know about the web site https://h2g2.com, which was started by Adams. It's encyclopædiaish in the way that Ford Prefect's book is, rather than being like Wikipedia (and it happens to be a couple of years older). Worth the occasional browse.

Conkers are definitely the chestnuts, they are ubiquitous in England, where Adams spent a lot of time, and a well understood reference to a childhood game here. A film that recently did the unlikely events driving the plot device very well was Everything everywhere all the time. It never occurred to me that they could have been inspired by Douglas Adams.

Conkers is just a childhood reference, like "pocket money" but one that doesn't translate very well globally.

"Marbles" might work as a replacement? Something you valued greatly as a child, so if you were holding up a spacecraft as a wayward youth you would demand it as a ransom.

> He was a gadget freak without doubt...

He even wrote for the UK version of MacUser

Since the fiction predate the tech, what if the fiction simply inspired the tech. Making it less prescient but still valuable.

These days I often find myself wishing I could find The Outside of the Asylum

H2G2 seems clickbaity for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Though I'm more likely to click knowing it--or perhaps I don't know it enough and everyone else knows H2G2.