Douglas Adams

Computer games and projects

Douglas Adams created an interactive fiction version of HHGG together with Steve Meretzky from Infocom in 1984. In 1986 he participated in a week-long brainstorming session with the Lucasfilm Games team for the game, Labyrinth. Later he was also involved in creating Bureaucracy (also by Infocom, but not based on any book). Adams was also responsible for the computer game Starship Titanic, which was published in 1999 by Simon and Schuster. The accompanying book, entitled Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, was written by Terry Jones, since Adams was too busy with the computer game to do both. In April 1999, Adams initiated the h2g2 collaborative writing project, a forerunner of the wiki medium.

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Interactive fiction - HHGG - Steve Meretzky - Infocom - 1984 - Lucasfilm Games - Labyrinth - Bureaucracy - Starship Titanic - 1999 - Simon and Schuster - Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic - Terry Jones - H2g2 - Collaborative writing - Wiki

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In 1990, Adams wrote and presented a television documentary programme Hyperland also featuring Tom Baker as a "software agent" (similar to the "Assistants" used in several versions of Microsoft Office, derived from their failed "Bob" program), and interviews with Ted Nelson, which was essentially about the use of hypertext. Although Adams didn't invent hypertext, he was an early adopter and advocate of it, and his influence should not be underestimated. This was before Tim Berners-Lee used the idea of hypertext in his HTML. (Internet Movie Database's Hyperland Page).

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1990 - Documentary - Hyperland - Tom Baker - Microsoft Office - Ted Nelson - Hypertext - Early adopter - Tim Berners-Lee - HTML

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