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Earth • Mostly Harmless
DON'T PANIC

The internet is vast. Bring a towel.

A surviving fragment of the old web, rebuilt for modern browsers. Games, questionable advice and the most important number in the known universe.

DON'T PANIC ANSWER: 42 EARTH: MOSTLY HARMLESS LOCATION: SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE TOWEL STATUS: ESSENTIAL DON'T PANIC ANSWER: 42 EARTH: MOSTLY HARMLESS LOCATION: SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE TOWEL STATUS: ESSENTIAL
RESTORED FROM THE OLD WEB

The game lives again.

The original Hitchhiker's Guide interactive-fiction story survived. Its ancient Java applet did not.

We've replaced the dead browser technology while keeping the actual adventure intact.

GUIDE TERMINAL / HHGG.Z3
GALACTIC REFERENCE SYSTEM v42

STORY FILE: HHGG.Z3
INTERPRETER: ONLINE
JAVA APPLET: EXTINCT

> LOOK

You wake up in your bedroom.

Something about today feels unusually inconvenient.

>

Always know where your towel is.

Any sufficiently experienced hitchhiker understands the immense psychological value of knowing exactly where their towel is.

MYTOWEL.NET

A relic worth keeping.

MyTowel.net has been floating around the web since the era of Java applets, personal domains and websites that weren't trying to sell you a monthly subscription.

MYTOWEL.NET LIFETHEUNIVERSEANDEVERYTHING.US LIFETHEUNIVERSEANDEVERYTHING.ORG SOLONGANDTHANKSFORALLTHEFISH.US SOLONGANDTHANKSFORALLTHEFISH.COM THERESTAURANTATTHEENDOFTHEUNIVERSE.ORG THERESTAURANTATTHEENDOFTHEUNIVERSE.US THERESTAURANTATTHEENDOFTHEUNIVERSE.NET