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Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute to the author Douglas Adams by his fans. On this day, fans carry a towel with them, as described in Adams' ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', to demonstrate their appreciation for the books and the author. The commemoration was first held two weeks after Adams' death on 11 May 2001. ==Origin== The original quotation that explained the importance of towels is found in Chapter 3 of Adams' work ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. The emphasis on towels is a reference to ''Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe'' by Ken Welsh, which inspired Adams' fictional guidebook and also stresses the importance of towels. The original article that began Towel Day was posted by a user "Clyde" (probably D. Clyde Williamson) at "System Toolbox", a short-lived open source forum. Chris Campbell and his friends registered the website (towelday.org ) to promote the day, reminding people to bring their towels. Towel Day was an immediate success among fans and many people sent in pictures of themselves with their towels.〔(Archive.org presentation of TowelDay.org's picture archive ) on 24 January 2002〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Towel Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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