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Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows created by Cerulean Studios that can connect to multiple IM programs from one client, such as AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, Jabber, and Skype networks (the latter four with Trillian Pro which allows for additonal plugins). Image File history File links Trillian_Logos. ...
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A multiprotocol instant messaging application is software which allows one instant messaging client to connect to multiple IM networks, such as AOL Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger. ...
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The ICQ Logo ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners America Online subsidiary. ...
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Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic Yahoo! ID which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when...
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GroupWise is a collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. ...
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Skype (pronunciation: rhymes with type and wipe) is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network, founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the creators of KaZaA, and competing against established open VoIP protocols like SIP, IAX, or H.323. ...
There are currently two types of Trillian available, the original and free Trillian Basic 3 and the commercial Trillian Pro 3. Initially released July 1, 2000 as a freeware IRC client, the first commercial version (Trillian Pro 1.0) was published on September 10, 2002. An upcoming product, called Trillian Astra, was announced recently by Cerulean Studios in their official blog. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...
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Features
Connection to multiple IM services Trillian connects to multiple instant messenging services without the need of running multiple clients. Users can create multiple connections to the same service, and can also group connections under separate identities to prevent confusion. All contacts are gathered under the same contact list. Contacts are not bound to its own IM service group, and can be dragged and dropped freely. Trillian represents each client with a different-colored sphere (see right). Prior versions used the corporate logos for each service, but these were removed to avoid copyright issues, although some skins still use the original icons for the mediums. The decision of colors were compared to subway lines in London Underground by the designer of Trillian. [1] Trillian MSN Globe File links The following pages link to this file: Trillian (instant messenger) ...
The nickname the Tube comes from the circular tube-like tunnels through which the small-profile trains travel. ...
Standard IM services Blue is any of a number of similar colors. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Windows Live Messenger. ...
Red is any of a number of similar colors at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ...
Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic Yahoo! ID which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when...
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The ICQ Logo ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners America Online subsidiary. ...
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ...
Plugin IM services (require Trillian Pro) Purple is any of a group of colors intermediate between deep blue and red. ...
This article is about a communications protocol. ...
Pink is a color made by mixing red and white and sometimes described as being a light red, but it is more accurately a bright undersaturated red. ...
Skype (pronunciation: rhymes with type and wipe) is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network, founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the creators of KaZaA, and competing against established open VoIP protocols like SIP, IAX, or H.323. ...
The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nanometres. ...
Bonjour, formerly Rendezvous, is Apples trade name for its implementation of the IETF Zeroconf specification framework, a computer network technology used in Apples Mac OS X from version 10. ...
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IBM Lotus Sametime is the commercial Instant Messaging service by the Lotus Software brand of IBM. It provides instant messaging(IM) and presence awareness capabilities as well as support for web conferencing. ...
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Metacontact To eliminate duplicates and simplify the structure of the contact list, users of Trillian Pro can 'bundle' multiple contacts of the same person into one entry in the contact list, using the Metacontact feature. Subcontacts will appear under the metacontact as small icons aligned in a manner of a tree.
Activity history
 Activity History in action Trillian Basic and Pro both come with Activity History, and both log the history as both plain text files and as XML-files. Pro has a History Manager which shows the chat history and allows the user to add bookmarks for revision later on. XML-based history makes the log easy to manipulate, searchable and extendable for future functions.[2] Trillian Activity History This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software. ...
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Time travel Trillian Pro also has the so-called Time Travel feature, allowing the user to record, and subsequently review, pause, rewind and fast forward live video and audio sessions.
Instant lookup Starting with version 3.0 in both the Basic and Pro suites, Trillian makes use of the English version of the Wikipedia free online encyclopedia for real-time referencing using its database of free knowledge. The feature is employed directly within a conversation window of a user. When one or more words are entered (by either user), Trillian checks all words against a database file and if a match is found, the word appears with a dotted green underline. When the user points their mouse over the word, the corresponding article is downloaded from Wikipedia and displayed on screen as a tooltip. When the user clicks on the underlined word, they are given the choice to visit the article online. This easy access to information creates an impression of omniscience within an instant message window, a condition jokingly referred to as Trilliscience. Wikipedia (IPA: , or ) is an international Web-based free-content encyclopedia. ...
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Online means being connected to the Internet or another similar electronic network, like a bulletin board system. ...
Emotiblips Emotiblips™ are the video equivalent of an emoticon. During video sessions, the user may stream a song or video to the other user in real time. One can send MP3s, WAVs, WMVs, and MPGs with this feature. QuickTime MOV files as Emotiblips are not currently supported.
Hidden smileys In version 2.0 to the current, the default emoticon set contains emoticons that don't appear in the menu but can be used in conversations. Some of these are animations that can only be appreciated in Trillian Pro, but all of them can be used regardless. A few such emoticons are: - (woot) - A little smiley leaping into the air and waving his hand.
- (dance) - A smiley doing the victory dance.
- (cheer) - A smiley waving his hands up and down as though cheering.
- (worship) - A smiley doing the 'I'm not worthy!' bow.
- (angel) - A smiley with wings and a halo.
- (devil) - A smiley with bat wings and horns.
- (santa) - A smiley resembling santa.
- (hug) - One smiley hugging another.
- (handshake) - One smiley shaking hands with another.
- >:D< - A smiley holding his hands out as though wanting a hug.
- (bounce) - A smiley bouncing up and down.
- (puke) - A smiley vomiting up something nasty.
- (money) - A dollar bill
A comprehensive list of smileys can be found here.
Skins and Interfaces Trillian has its own unique skinning engine known as SkinXML. Many skins have been developed for Trillian and they can be downloaded from the official skins gallery or deviantArt. deviantART is a popular online artistic community. ...
Trillian also came with an easier skinning language, Stixe, which is essentially a set of XML Entities that simplifies repetitive codes and allows skinners to share XML and graphics in the form of emoticon packs, sound packs and interfaces. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ...
The default skins of Trillian are designed by designHazard. Trillian Cordillera was used in Trillian 0.7x, while Trillian Whistler has been the default skin for Trillian since Pro 1.0. Cosmetic changes were noticeable in each major release. designHazard is a multi-disciplinary design firm that covers from architecture to graphic design, from software architecture to information architecture. ...
Trillian Whistler is the default skin for the Trillian instant messaging client developed by Cerulean Studios, since Trillian Pro 1. ...
Plugins Trillian is a closed-source application, but the Pro version can be extended by plugins. Plugins by Cerulean Studios itself include spell-check, weather updater, a mini-browser (for viewing AIM profiles), e-mail checker, Winamp song title scroller, stock exchange monitor, and RSS feedreader, as well as a plugin for the Jabber and Bonjour networks. Others have developed various plugins, such as a games plugin which can be used to play chess and checkers, a protocol plugin to send NetBIOS messages through Trillian, a plugin to interact with Lotus Sametime clients, a plugin to interact with Microsoft Exchange, a POP3 and IMAP email checker, or an automatic translator for many European languages to and from English. There is a plugin to interact with Skype, SkyLlian, but it needs Skype to be installed in order to be used. A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ...
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NetBIOS is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. ...
IBM Lotus Sametime is the commercial Instant Messaging service by the Lotus Software brand of IBM. It provides instant messaging(IM) and presence awareness capabilities as well as support for web conferencing. ...
Microsoft Exchange was initially the universal email client that was part of Windows 95, but later on was an email solution that consists of Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Exchange Client. ...
Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an application layer Internet standard protocol used to retrieve email from a remote server to a local client over a TCP/IP connection. ...
The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP, and previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. ...
Skype (pronunciation: rhymes with type and wipe) is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network, founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the creators of KaZaA, and competing against established open VoIP protocols like SIP, IAX, or H.323. ...
Plugins are available for free and are hosted on the official web site.
Membership Users can purchase Trillian for $25, but only require $5 to extend the membership to download an upgrade for a major release. The membership also provides access to a members-only discussion forum.
History
Early beginnings After several internal builds, the first ever public release of Trillian, version 0.50, was available on July 1, 2000, and was designed to be an IRC client. The release was deemed 'too buggy' and was immediately pulled off the shelf and replaced by a new version 0.51 on the same day. It featured a simple Connection Manager and skinned windows. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
A month later, two minor builds were released with additional IRC features and bug fixes. Despite these efforts, Trillian was not popular, as reflected in the number of downloads from CNET's Download.com.
Trillian was a donateware at that time. They used PayPal for receiving donations through their web site. Donateware (or donationware) is a form of software distribution. ...
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Introduction of interoperability Version 0.6, released in November 29, 2000, represented a major change in the direction of development, when the client became capable of connecting to AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ and MSN Messenger simultaneously in one window. November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
Although similar products, such as Jabber, Odigo and Imici, existed at that time already, Trillian was novel in the way that it distinguished contacts from different IM services clearly on the contact list, and it did not require registration of a proprietary account. Besides, it did not lose connection easily like the other clients. This article is about a communications protocol. ...
Odigo was a company who offered instant messaging services via a minor messaging client called Odigo Messenger. ...
A month later, Yahoo! Messenger support was introduced in Trillian 0.61, and it also featured a holiday skin for Christmas. Meanwhile, the Trillian community forums were opened to the public.
During this period, new versions were released frequently, in a matter of months and weeks. Such development cycle attracted a lot of enthusiasts into the community. Skinning activity boomed and fan sites were created. A skinning contest was held on deviantArt in Summer, and the winner was selected to design the default skin for the next version of Trillian. Trillian hit 100,000 downloads on August 14, 2001. Trillian 0.635 was the most stable version. deviantART is a popular online artistic community. ...
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Entry into mainstream and the "IM Wars"
 Trillian Cordillera, the default interface for 0.7x Contrary to the anticipation for version "0.64" in the community, the next version of Trillian was numbered 0.70. It was released on December 5, 2001 and it took 5 months for the development of this version, which was comparably longer than previous builds. Image File history File links Trillian_Cordillera. ...
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The new version implemented file transfer in all IM services, a feature most requested by the community at the time. It also represented a number of skin language changes. It used the contact list as the main window (as opposed to a status window 'container' in previous versions) and featured a brand new default skin, Trillian Cordillera, and an emoticon set boasting over 100 emoticons, setting a record apart from other messengers available at that time.
Version 0.71 was released on the 18th. It supported AIM group chats, and was the first major IM client which included the ability to encrypt messages with SecureIM. An encyption system built-in to the Trillian Chat Client. ...
Within two months, the number of downloads of Trillian surged from 300,000 to 1 million on 27 January 2002, and 5 million within 6 months. It received coverage and favorable reviews from mainstream media worldwide, particularly by CNET, Wired Magazine and BetaNews. The lead developer and co-founder, Scott Werndorfer, was also interviewed in TechTV. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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BetaNews is a software related news website that also features the FileForum which tracks updates to shareware and freeware programs. ...
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However, Trillian remained the center of attention in IM in the media for the rest of year, but not for a good reason. It had gained attention from AOL that Trillian supported its messenger. Version 0.72 was released on January 29, 2002, and it began to suffer connection problems to AOL Instant Messenger [3]. January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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AOL blocked SecureIM access from Trillian clients, although Cerulean appeared to have circumvented the latest block with version 0.721 of its client software, released merely one day later. The "AOL War" continued for the next couple weeks, with subsequent patches 0.722, 0.723 and 0.724 released by Cerulean Studios. Trillian garnered a lot of media attention as a result, and its developers were praised by its community for their efficiency.
Trillian appeared for the first time in February 2002 in the Jupiter Media Metrix Internet audience ratings with 344,000 unique users and has grown 77 percent to 610,000 as of April 2002. While those numbers cannot compare to usage by the major IM networks, Jupiter said Trillian consistently ranks highest according to the number of average minutes spent per month [4].
Trillian also had a special version created for Iomega ActiveDisk. The Iomega Corporation NYSE: IOM is a supplier of portable computer storage devices and media. ...
Commercialization with Trillian Pro On September 9, 2002, to the surprise of the Trillian community, a commercial version of Trillian, Trillian Pro 1.0 was released concurrently with Trillian Basic 0.74. Notably, the commercial version was sold for $25 for a year of subscription, but all those who donated to the development of Trillian before were eligible to a year of subscription for free. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ...
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The new version had added SMS and mobile messaging capabilities, Yahoo! webcam support, pop-up e-mail alerts and new plug-ins to shuttle news, weather and stock quotes directly to buddy lists.
It appeared Trillian Pro would be marketed to corporate clients looking to keep in touch with suppliers or customers via a secured, interoperable IM network, and a relatively dull and stern user interface. The company had no venture-capital backing and depended entirely on donations from users to stay alive.
Trillian Pro 1.0 was nominated and picked among three other nominees as the Best Internet Communication shareware in its maiden year of being a "try before you buy" shareware [5]. Trillian received various awards afterwards.
On April 26, 2003, Trillian hit ten million downloads [6]. April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ...
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Trillian Pro 2.0 Trillian Pro 2.0 was released on September 9, 2003 to lukewarm reviews. Many supporters had lost interest as a result of the increasingly long development cycles and lack of communication between developers and users, and moved on to other open-source software such as Miranda IM and Gaim. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ...
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Miranda Instant Messenger is a minimalistic, free open source (GNU GPL) multiprotocol instant messaging application for Microsoft Windows. ...
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The new version boasted core program rewrite, Unicode, language pack support and tabbed messenging, a feature that became popular as tabbed browser Firefox rose in popularity. Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...
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Blockages from Yahoo! and Sharing Patches with GAIM A few weeks later, Yahoo! attempted to block Trillian from connecting its service [7], as their "efforts to implement preventative measures to protect our users from potential spammers". A few patches were released to address the issue due to the Yahoo! protocol upgrade.
In a surprising move, the Trillian developers shared patch codes with its open-source Linux rival GAIM to solve the Yahoo! connection issues. Sean Egan, the developer of GAIM, posted in its site, "Our friends over at Cerulean Studios managed to break my speed record at cracking Yahoo! authentication schemes with an impressive feat of hackery." It was later revealed that the developers were friends and had helped each other in past occasions. [8] Sean Egan in Vancouver, Canada, 2006. ...
Meanwhile, as Microsoft forced its users to upgrade to MSN Messenger 5.0 for upgrades in their servers for security issues [9], October 15 also would mark the deadline for Trillian support for MSN Messenger. However, it appeared that Cerulean Studios worked with Microsoft to resolve the issue on August 2, long before the deadline. October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years). ...
August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ...
On March 7, 2004 and June 23, 2004, Yahoo! changed its instant messaging language again to prevent third-party services, such as Trillian, from accessing its service. Like previous statements, the company said the block is meant as a pre-emptive measure against spammers from its Yahoo! Messenger service [10]. Cerulean Studios released a few patches to fix the issues quickly, within a day or two. March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175 th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ...
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Trillian 3 Series In August 2004, a new official blog was created in attempt to rebuild connections between the Studios and its customers. Trillian 3 was announced in the blog and a sneak preview was made available to a small group of testers. It has been suggested that Online diary be merged into this article or section. ...
After months of beta-testing, the final build was released on December 18, 2004, with features such as new video and audio chat capabilities throughout AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger, an enhanced logging manager and integration with the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. It also featured a clean and re-organized user interface and a brand new official web site. December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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The release also updated the long-abandoned Trillian Basic .74, to match the new user interface and functionalities as Trillian Basic 3.0. The number of accumulated downloads of Trillian Basic in Download.com hit 20 million within a matter of weeks.
Trillian 3.1 was released on February 23, 2005, with new features such as Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and multiple identities support. February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of computer network protocols promulgated by the UPnP Forum. ...
U3 and Google Pack Trillian was made available for U3 USB flash drives on October 21, 2005, despite Trillian being known to be portable long ago with third-party plugins such as Trillian Anywhere. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
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On January 6, 2006, Larry Page, the President of Products from Google, announced Google Pack, a bundle of various applications including Trillian Basic 3.0 as "a free collection of safe, useful software from Google and other companies that improves the user experience online and on the desktop". January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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"We're very excited for Trillian to be included in Google Pack, as we at Cerulean Studios have always been very focused on giving end-users the highest quality experience possible," said Scott Werndorfer, Co-founder, Cerulean Studios. "We believe this goal aligns Trillian perfectly with Google Pack." [11]
The inclusion of Trillian in Google Pack was perplexing to some media analysts as Google has its own Google Talk service, which also touts interoperability. Trillian is also included as one of the "client choices" in Google Talk's "federation". Google's backing on Trillian advanced the positions of both parties in the instant messenging competition. Google Talk is a service offered by Google for Voice over IP and instant messaging. ...
According to the Cerulean Studios' Official Blog, as of Friday, 19 May 2006, Trillian has been discontinued from Google Pack. [12]
Trillian Astra (Trillian 4)
 Screenshot of Trillian Astra's Contact Window
 Screenshot of Trillian Astra'a Login Screen More than a year after the release of Trillian 3.1, the Cerulean Studios blog began spreading news again, and announced the next version of Trillian to be called "Trillian Astra" [13]. The new release claimed to be faster and include a new login screen. A new web site was disclosed to the public.[14] Image File history File links Astramain. ...
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Version history - July 1, 2000: Initial Release, 0.50
- August 11, 2000: Version 0.52
- November 29, 2000: Version 0.60
- December 23, 2000: Version 0.61
- January 28, 2001: Version 0.62
- March 23, 2001: Version 0.63
- June 04, 2001: Version 0.635
- June 20, 2001: Version 0.6351
- December 05, 2001: Version 0.70
- December 18, 2001: Version 0.71
- January 29 -- February 20, 2002: Versions 0.72x
- June 7, 2002: Version 0.73
- September 9, 2002: Version 0.74 and Trillian Pro version 1.0
- September 9, 2003: Trillian Pro version 2.0
- December 17, 2004: Trillian Basic and Pro versions 3.0
- February 24, 2005: Trillian Basic and Pro versions 3.1
Trivia - The program was named after Trillian, a fictional character in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The old version of the official web site used to have a shrine of Douglas Adams on its front page.
- The name for version 4, Trillian Astra, is the nickname used by the same fictional character for reporting on a radio channel in the story.
- The Trillian logo has always been represented by two globes linked together, despite numerous graphic changes throughout the revisions.
- Trillian was spotted on Alias (TV series), when the mother and father of Sydney Bristow are seen instant messaging each other
- Cerulean Studios is particularly fond of Halloween and they occasionally celebrated Halloween by decorating the Trillian web site with a special "Trilloween" moniker. A special set of buddy icons was made in Trilloween 2005 and is still available here.
- The developers of Trillian were infamous for their discreet attitude and lack of deadlines. During the long wait for Trillian "0.64", they coined the term "Soon™", and it gained notoriety ever since as development time became longer and longer in later versions.
Zooey Deschanel as Trillian from the film adaptation. ...
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was first and foremost a 1978 radio comedy series written by Douglas Adams. ...
Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was a cult British comic radio dramatist, amateur musician and author, most notably of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series (HHGG or H2G2). ...
Alias was an American SpyFi television series, created by J. J. Abrams, that aired on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006. ...
Sydney Anne Bristow (born 17 April 1975), played by Jennifer Garner, is the main character on the television series, Alias. ...
Halloween is an observance celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets or money. ...
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XMLitude is an XML Attitude. ...
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Skype (pronunciation: rhymes with type and wipe) is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network, founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the creators of KaZaA, and competing against established open VoIP protocols like SIP, IAX, or H.323. ...
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