Thinking about The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, I wonder if it began as a Wikipedia-type of repository of information? Could it be that somewhere in the distant past a planet much like ours (but didn't get destroyed for a intergalactic bypass), developed its own version of the internet that continued to grow and grow until it contains so much information that it started to become a sentient mass of information that had to be imprisoned in a book to contain it?
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