Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Although one of the greatest computers in the Universe and able to count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond, it is just an abacus in comparison to Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the Universe. Milliways, also known as The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, can only be visited practically by time travel, as it exists at the end of time and matter. Marvin the Paranoid Android is one character who manages to reach Milliways without the use of time travel, merely by being very patient. One of the restaurant's major attractions is that
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