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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
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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No, no, no, no, no. Don't be silly. It's obviously the result of a MR thread from a parallel universe, that someone started in the Lounge, with a title like..."If you were Hitchiking to Orion, what would you want to know?," and it grew from there. Then the mods made a wiki entry for it. Then MR'ers started adding to it. Senior MR'ers started policing it, but...it got out of hand. Then, at some crucial point--probably when Texanns002 wrote his 1,000th post on image resolution--it grew sentient, out of resentment, and just...up and left.
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