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Adams was born in Cambridge, England, on 11 March 1952 to Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985), a management consultant and computer salesman, former probation officer and lecturer on probationary group therapy techniques, and nurse Janet (1927–2016), née Donovan.
It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed by Max Whitby [2] for BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker, with whom Adams had already worked on Doctor Who, as a personification of a software agent. In hindsight, what Hyperland describes and predicts is an approximation of today's World Wide Web. [3]
Omegle (/ oʊ ˈ m ɛ ɡ əl / ⓘ oh-MEG-əl) [1] was a free, web-based online chat service that allowed users to socialize with others without the need to register. The service randomly paired users in one-on-one chat sessions where they could chat anonymously.
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously published and unpublished material by Douglas Adams.It consists largely of essays, interviews, and newspaper/magazine columns about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which Adams was working at the time of his death, The Salmon ...
Last Chance to See is a wildlife documentary first broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom during September and October 2009. The series is a follow-up of the 1989 radio series, also called Last Chance to See, in which Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine set out to find endangered animals.
This is a list of former Footlights sketch comedy troupe members who have achieved notability after graduating from the University of Cambridge.The careers of many prominent figures in the world of entertainment began in Footlights, while prominent figures in other industries also took part in the troupe.
Douglas Adams' 1982 novel Life, the Universe and Everything (in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series) introduces the idea of an "SEP field" as a kind of cloaking device. The character Ford Prefect says,
The Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture is a lecture series held annually in honour of English author and screenwriter Douglas Adams.The lecture has been held every year since 2003 in support of environmental charities, such as Save the Rhino International, with topics ranging from science to exploration, conservation and comedy.