If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

internet =/= electricity.

[elfpie@beehaw.org]

A copy of scratch then.

[elfpie@beehaw.org]

Extra RAM.

[hatchetharo@pawb.social]

i already download all my favs from e6 and FA lul

[sir_kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

True but he's got a point. If the internet suddenly went away, there are likely bigger problems to deal with.

[hyphlosion@lemm.ee]

The Gutenberg Project, as well as those free online classes for things.

[fsxylo@sh.itjust.works]

Similar to "if the government can't cash your check, we're all fucked"

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

The amount of data required for that would be immense. From what I’ve been able to find it’s over 200 petabytes.

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

Definitely entertainment, but beyond that, Networking classes so that I can hack together a intranet for my household and the neighbourhood

[mindbleach@sh.itjust.works]

DownThemAll, Double Click Image Downloader, Gallery Swallower userscript.

The games you can probably get via sneakernet.

[mindbleach@sh.itjust.works]

Youtube videos. I used to use youtube-dl exclusively, and then that stopped working, and I've gradually been sucked back into just using the website. But there's a text file with a list of URLs I've been meaning to grab for posterity... and it's getting kinda fat.

[gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml]

yt-dlp still works!

[kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Can't believe I'm the first to say this, but... porn.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

Perhaps instead of using youtube-dl or yt-dlp, you may enjoy some client such as freetube more, as it has a lot of the benefits of those tools, but without ads, and with sponsorblock/thumbnail correction, and other nice customizations. It also enables you to create playlists and whatnot.

[bilb@lem.monster]

The arch linux wiki, where you will be instructed to install various dependencies from the AUR

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

Why doesn't the OS install those for you

[bilb@lem.monster]

Not one, but two references to e621 in this thread. And neither are from users on the furry instances. Much to think about.

[couldbealeotard@lemmy.world]

I've got a couple of 10TB HDDs. Is that enough?

[dx1@lemmy.ml]

I already did.

[nitefox@sh.itjust.works]

Pff, rookie numbers. I have a 3k zettabytes data center at home