A full copy of Stack Overflow. Otherwise, we would not know how to get the Internet working again.
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Somethings are better when done from scratch.
Can't believe I'm the first to say this, but... porn.
Extra RAM.
All the images I have bookmarked on multiple devices from e621, any game I've been even possibly hesitating on pirating, all my Steam games (I don't trust Inwouldnhe able to get in and install them if I could even get into my account to begin with at that point), and downloading every single song I have saved on yt and Newpipe because I'd never see them again.
A whole slew of things.
i already download all my favs from e6 and FA lul
Arch wiki with arch man docs.
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.
Definitely entertainment, but beyond that, Networking classes so that I can hack together a intranet for my household and the neighbourhood
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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.
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.
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).
I don't disagree with the sentiment but I think having accessible, entertaining education resources would also be a huge boon. They're sure not going into depth on the topics but I imagine getting people "on the hook" could be huge, and then they can find other more educational resources from others in the community.
Iβve made sure Iβm good to go, as I always thought the day might come that I canβt afford internet anyway.
I have my entire gog and itch library downloaded (if I have any steam games not on gog, Iβve pirated them if I can find it). I have my nas full of movies and tv. I listen to all my favourite music on records. Every couple of years I go through and update my rom library to make sure I have the most to to date best known roms.
Even as much as possible I keep latest version of the Linux iso I might want, and if there is an appimage of my most used programs, itβs there too.
Iβm pretty much ready for my life to become leaner when it comes to internet.
Assuming the web would go completely bust, I'd go back to a much simpler life.
Those naked pictures of your mom
Oh please, you can find those in the yellow pages
Dick Valentine, is that you?
The Gutenberg Project, as well as those free online classes for things.
Honestly, I think I'm mostly set already (as I often go backpacking and there's no internet there). I have offline maps for the country I'm in and neighboring regions downloaded in OsmAnd and mapy.cz (two sources just in case), Wikipedia in Kiwix, and my custom NixOS setup as a bootable ISO on a flashdrive. I'll probably miss being able to watch science/maths edutainment on YouTube, but it's not something I'd download.
Honestly I'd probably just give up on technology entirely. Become a hermit carpenter or something
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.
don't forget the source code!
Man I have never thought about it because of feeling so at ease with the digital video game stores and just downloading what I want whenever I want without keeping a physical library that would take up space. Same with books.
If the internet died tomorrow, I would have the stuff I'm playing or reading or watching downloaded but I would be out of luck for anything else until it came back. Maybe it's time to start a backup, get a big HDD or something
Probably forums I use to solve problems (stackoverflow and all the stack exchange ones), offline games, guides (for programming, sysadmin, building tables, cooking, travel and repair onesβ¦), documentation for every software and tool I use or might use. Wikipedia is also a must, music too. I have a media server for my music but keeping it up to date with every release is hard work that I havenβt started (yet).
The Time Cube so I could rebuild society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
https://web.archive.org/web/19981212033445/http://www.timecube.com/
Even better version: https://web.archive.org/web/20120224094852/http://www.timecube.com/
Not to be confused with Times Square
Latest llama version and instructions for setting it up
BBS software. Nerds always find a way. I guess if I have to be a sysop nowβ¦
Grab the whole world, not just where you live, it's not too much space
annas-archive.org, arxiv.org, and maybe internet archive too if possible
Nothing.
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.
We would have had no time to withdraw cash as cash, an important thing since banks will fall over at least enough to trigger an economic collapse.
No, we're all gonna need to learn how to fight, and live without hospitals and drugs and probably electricity.
We have bigger problems than ensuring we can look up the capital of Rwanda on this cached Wikipedia while we listen to The Cure.
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All of seriouseats.com
All the extension office university data on plants, agriculture, etc. Itβs invaluable info for anyone who grows their own food and deals with bees in relation to that food growth.
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Lots of code repos. Especially repos for programming languages, compilers, and Git.
All Jetbrains products
Ableton Live
I'd want to pirate every drawing program I never got a chance to try, plus the fancier writing software. Gonna have a lot of time to learn both.
I've seen shockingly few movies and TV shows so maybe all the media I can get my hands on, too.
I already did.
A distilled DeepSeek R1 model.
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