The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy President; the depressed robot Marvin the Paranoid Android; and Trillian, formerly known as Tricia McMillan, a woman Arthur once met at a party in Islington and the only other human survivor of Earth's destruction thanks to Beeblebrox' intervention. The first radio series comes from a proposal called "The Ends of the Earth": six self-contained episodes, all ending with Earth's being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realized that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to provide some context, and that this alien needed a reason to be there. Adams finally settled
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) in the catchphrase of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that it was the best source of advice for those who wanted to see the universe "on less than 30 Altairian dollars a day." Douglas Adams, who was deeply involved with computer technology, founded the website h2g2 in 1999. In keeping with the "Hitchhiker's Guide"'s tradition of being edited by random people off the street, h2g2 is an encyclopedia edited by thousands of contributors. The site's creation predates Wikipedia by two years, though several commentators have noted the similarities between Wikipedia and the "Hitchhiker's Guide", particularly its wild variance in