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H2g2 (1999), the collaborative online encyclopedia created by Douglas Adams, pre-dates Wikipedia (2001) by 2 years.
I loved the tagline for the 5th book in the series. It was something like:
"The fifth in the increasingly inaccurate Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy"
"... Increasingly inaccurately named..." was how it was phrased.
Edit: I also really loved the first few pages of the fifth book. Each line below was on its own page:
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
I am talking a year off dead for tax purposes.
That would do a lot to explain Douglas Adams’s relationship with deadlined. (“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”)
The 80s BBC mini series did this such justice (for the time and budget)
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