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That comes from a 1999 essay for the Sunday Times News Review, in which Adams railed against the way the BBC’s John Humphrys pronounced internet addresses like some strange, incomprehensible alien language – a fact which makes it feel just wrong somehow that Humphrys would continue to be bothering the listeners of the Today programme for another 20 years while Adams would be dead inside two. If it’s ringing any bells, that’s probably because it’s been widely reproduced all over the internet – though often, strangely, with slightly different wording which pushes the cut off to 35, in a manner that makes it look hilariously like some tech-savvy 33 year old somewhere felt miffed.