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

[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

[kuneho@lemmy.world]

okay, you caught me, my .world profile was supposed to be my non-furry lemmy account.

[demandtheoxfordcomma@sh.itjust.works]

Today I learned I'm unintentionally preparing for the Internet apocalypse.

[balsoft@lemmy.ml]

Honestly, while fun, those videos don't provide too much value per GB - and I say that as someone who's watched almost all of them. Their main actual benefit besides entertainment is (IMHO) getting people interested in the relevant field so they study more thoroughly. They often explain simple yet dazzling concepts which get you hooked but don't provide much value on their own, and don't directly enable you to solve real-life problems. Even more involved videos like those by 3blue1brown are still edutainment at their core, as acknowledged by the author. In an apocalypse (which, let's face it, is the most likely reason the internet would indefinitely go down in a developed country) you would be much better off with engineering (mechanical, electrical, etc) literature and textbooks, maybe a couple science textbooks for good measure (I have a drawer full of the Feynman lectures in case something like this happens).

[balsoft@lemmy.ml]

If the Internet went away, we’d have a little time before batteries were not viable even if replaceable, as distributing those batteries would get problematic.

Good thing portable solar panels & lead-acid batteries exist that can easily power a couple of laptops even if their internal batteries are cooked. Solar panels last for a very long time if cared for, and lead-acid batteries can be (somewhat) useful almost indefinitely if you replace the electrolyte.

No, we’re all gonna need to learn how to fight, and live without hospitals and drugs and probably electricity.

So it would be really handy to have instructions for maintaining or even building weaponry, medical/medicinal literature to find useful herbs or other remedies, and engineering literature/textbooks/software to help us rebuild the electrical grid and then the Internet.