Besides imdb, wikipedia and the search engine du jour? Probably the original wiki (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki), aka. the "Portland Pattern R

Besides imdb, wikipedia and the search engine du jour? Probably the original wiki (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki), aka. the "Portland Pattern Repository". This is where the whole idea of wiki's started - and if you only know the term from Wikipedia, there's quite a bit to learn. In the end, a lot of everyone's network usage boils down to two bits: information and communication. Just having that actor you forgot the name of at your fingertip, or quickly looking up the detailed history of literacy is just great. This is what Hitchhiker's Guide promised. Nowadays some people probably have a hard time thinking about what they'd do in those cases without their mobile devices, but considering that previously you had to go to your encyclopedia, probably find it inadequate and then head to the library, even for rather trivial use… For communication, we sadly left the more interesting technology behind and now are shoe-horning everything into the web. Which is why I'd find a hard time calling any kind of forum, whether it's a PHPBB one, reddit or HN "great". A wiki probably comes closest to actually using the web to its advantage - and if remember correctly, user-editable pages for almost everything were part of the original WWW idea. (Don't have anything like the HHGTTG to compare it to, here. Shadowrun's inline comments maybe ;) )