In the unchartered backwaters of the unfashionable end of the internet, lies a small, precious website, based on a unique global legacy and a unique set of intellectual property rights.
In April 1999 – before Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, or Tik Tok, before even Wikipedia, more or less of the same vintage as Google and back in a dial-up world (yes, really, we're talking ancient history) – the late, great Douglas Adams launched *The Earth Edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* live on *Tomorrow's World* on the BBC in London.
Improbably, h2g2.com is still going 25 years later. Its original vision is still being pursued by an extraordinary group of Field Researchers, who have quietly continued to work away on a site held together by Love and sticking plaster.
The reason for the sticking plaster is also the reason h2g2 is special. h2g2 doesn't belong to a giant corporation. Sirius Cybernetics owns no piece of us. Nobody farms our data, thank you very much.
