About

h2g2 is an online encyclopedia and community that launched in April 1999, and was taken over by the BBC in 2001. I joined the site in February 2004 and have written more than a hundred entries for h2g2's Approved Guide (previously referred to as the Edited Guide). In January 2011, the BBC announced their intention to 'dispose' of the site to a third party. As a result I backed up many of my entries here on Blogger. Since then, h2g2 has been rescued by a combination of volunteers and philanthropists.