If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?
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Wikipedia would be the most valuable thing if I had to pick one, I guess.
An maybe the "your jimmies are eternal video" in case I need to unrustle my jimmie ever again.
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Dick Valentine, is that you?
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Having the whole wikipedia would get you a damn good start to getting back to civilization.
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Only as good as you know about the topic, try doing a http server from just a Wikipedia page
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A distilled DeepSeek R1 model.
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Not too hard with a single server as your node and everyone being wired into it. Obviously you would have to code every website and have all required dependencies there already.
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I'm adding https://www.survivorlibrary.com/ to the list
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Would you like a roommate?
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in my basement, sure
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The Time Cube so I could rebuild society.
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FROM scratch AS internet # TODO -
Not to be confused with Times Square
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What the hell
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Opera videos.
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What makes you think I didn't already download everything I want?
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Nothing, I never said any such thing. In your case your answer to my question would be "I would not have to wish, because I already downloaded everything I want". This makes you wise.
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don't forget the source code!
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Lots of code repos. Especially repos for programming languages, compilers, and Git.
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That's a much classier way of calling someone a digital hoarder
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Haha, I have an ok amount of data tucked away on disks as well, but I have a huge appreciation for people who do collect data as a hobby. In the contemporary, I fully believe that having people who take it upon themselves to do this is more important than ever, even thought it is often a thankless thing to do.
So in this case, I would throw a thank you your way for doing that!
