If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?
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For me it would be a full copy of wikipedia, an offline copy of some maps of where I live, some linux ISO's, and a lot of entertainment media.
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If you'd download the whole wikipedia be sure to download the whole commets section for each article to have a perspective on discussions on conflicting reasons for edits. Also include all the wiki media materials for all of the public domain literature, project gutenberg, entire archive.org, a good offline OS to be able to consume all of the information and you're golden
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I do have a copy of wikipedia and I should be good on entertainment media. I guess I should expand the emergency porn stash.
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e621 dump
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entire archive.org
How much would it cost to store like 100 petabytes for (conservatively) 40 years?
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A full copy of Stack Overflow. Otherwise, we would not know how to get the Internet working again.
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All of seriouseats.com
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All the extension office university data on plants, agriculture, etc. It’s invaluable info for anyone who grows their own food and deals with bees in relation to that food growth.
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Right after Wikipedia, it would be the Arch Linux wiki.
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All the Debian ISO images and all of the documentation on everything.
This way. I should have all the stable software I could wish for and the instructions on how to use them.
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Just out of curiosity, how much space/effort was that to set up? (Yes, I know I can probably google up like a bajillion resources on this exact thing, but I'm a weirdo and am attempting to bring the (non-toxic/shitty) social back to social media)
I've been considering setting myself up a little NAS server since I finally dumped Spotify and am considering doing the same with video streaming too (besides Tubi, anyway), but having one just for mp3/light video streaming seems like a bit of a waste and having local repos of useful sites might be a fun side project to help justify it to myself lol
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archive.org, which contains wikipedia too. Checkmate!
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Somethings are better when done from scratch.
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All of kurzgesagt, minute physics, vsauce, Steve mould, matt parker, and veritasium. I think they're invaluable education resources and it would be useful to be able to distribute them, or just have them for my own sake.
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I'm a data hoarder so I already have done that.
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Already got all my favourite games downloaded or on DVD. All my Youtube favourites and the full catalogues of some old channels would be great. No JonGrumps and no 00's meme videos make me something something.
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Is there an archive of this kind of data anywhere? I'd love to store this. I've already got a few wikis, including Wikipedia itself, but I'd love more
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Honestly I'd probably just give up on technology entirely. Become a hermit carpenter or something
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Assuming the web would go completely bust, I'd go back to a much simpler life.
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It’s individual universities.
