Current mood: gleefully lost in old internet things. My first internet experiences, actually.
This article sums it up pretty well. http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/02/02/secret-douglas-adams-rpg-people-playing-15-years
And recently I found the actual form that kicked it all off, which is hella postfurry in places. https://web.archive.org/web/19990210054042/http://www.starshiptitanic.com:80/longform.html
@irisjaycomics I was in high school and then college. It was pretty rad. :-D
A supplementary link with a bit more details on the wackiness involved: https://h2g2.com/entry/A371747.
Characters and plots of mine are mentioned a few times, there. :-P