Right you are. It's the opening line to the Infocom Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy PC game or "Interactive Fiction".
How is this significant? Well I was just thinking about what my first PC game was, and that was it. Around 1984 it was developed, and I got it Brand New at the time!
LOL, text based games...
So for your prize!
Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
and you can actually play the entire game on line. Thre are even two different versions with different "Graphics" that go along with the swashbuckling text adventure. OMG!