{"id":14852,"date":"2003-05-15T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-15T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/15\/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-online\/"},"modified":"2003-05-15T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-15T17:21:00","slug":"hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/15\/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide To The Galaxy Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.douglasadams.com\/creations\/infocomjava.html\" title=\"HHGG Online!\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HHGG\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/hhgg.jpg\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/05\/12\/adams.death\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent passing of Douglas Adams<\/a> was quite a tragedy, as his surrealistic yet intelligent sense of humor resulted in some of my favorite books of all time.  Does anyone remember the Infocom <i>Hitchhiker&rsquo;s Guide To The Galaxy<\/i> game?  I sure do!  Douglas Adams was a big fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csd.uwo.ca\/Infocom\/zork1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Zork<\/i> text adventure game<\/a> and had a large part in developing the computer game based on his seminal novel.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.douglasadams.com\/creations\/infocomjava.html\" title=\"HHGG Online!\" target=\"_blank\">This online version<\/a> recreates the original to a tee, and although I&rsquo;ve forgotten how to finish the game, it really brings back a lot of memories.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200296235?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent passing of Douglas Adams was quite a tragedy, as his surrealistic yet intelligent sense of humor resulted in some of my favorite books of all time. Does anyone remember the Infocom Hitchhiker&rsquo;s Guide To The Galaxy game? I sure do! Douglas Adams was a big fan of the Zork text adventure game and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/15\/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide To The Galaxy Online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}