The Answer To Life, The Universe and Everything

In the novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, the supercomputer Deep Thought is tasked with coming up with the Answer To The Ultimate Question Of Life, The Universe and Everything. Deep Thought takes nearly 7 and a half million years before finally coming up with an answer.

42.

One of the more notable internet memes created by Douglas Adams (among others are towels, the Babel Fish, etc.) where, as said before, the apparent Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is 42.

On The Internet

While the first novel of the series was released in 1979, it circulated amongst the HGTTG community for a while until it finally received it’s place on the Internet. “Life, The Universe and Everything” is a common name for the off-topic or “Other” section on online forums. Online calculators are sometimes programmed with this in mind. Searching on Google “the answer to life the universe and everything” gets, as you’d expect, 42. The same happens with Bing.