Douglas Adams was the best. I got an email from him one time! So in 1994/5, I was discovering Gopher and the text-based www, and I found his cambridge.edu email address. I emailed telling him how much fun I had playing the Infocom HHGttG game with my mom as a kid. His reply: Thank you!

Adams gave a keynote speech at a corporate tech conference I attended in the early 90s, we all loved him but I wonder what he made of us. I can’t recall the details but I think he was polite and funny and did not eviscerate us. It was the highlight of the 2 day conference