Chris PetrilliDouglas Adams died 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad. And has been widely regarded as a very bad thing.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Good grief. I adored the books of course, and then in an early computer job, my buddy and I had the Infocom game of #THHGTTG, and we spent *hours* on it when we were supposed to be working 🙂
One of my abiding memories of it was:
“Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?
Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-
Arthur Dent: Oh.
Ford Prefect: What happened?
Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.”
In the game, if you then hit the button a second time, you died immediately.
Monte Freeman