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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Those naked pictures of your mom

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Oh please, you can find those in the yellow pages

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

All of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, JK I've got that shit on lock already

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I’ve made sure I’m good to go, as I always thought the day might come that I can’t afford internet anyway.

I have my entire gog and itch library downloaded (if I have any steam games not on gog, I’ve 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, it’s there too.

I’m pretty much ready for my life to become leaner when it comes to internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I wanna be your friend lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Assuming the web would go completely bust, I'd go back to a much simpler life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Honestly I'd probably just give up on technology entirely. Become a hermit carpenter or something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm a data hoarder so I already have done that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah same here lol. Already got Wikipedia and backup copies of all my books, as well as enough TV and movies to last a good long while. Also an entire offline copy of Project Gutenberg.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

BBS software. Nerds always find a way. I guess if I have to be a sysop now…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Ableton Live

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

All Jetbrains products

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Latest llama version and instructions for setting it up

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (5 children)

archive.org, which contains wikipedia too. Checkmate!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the file size on that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The file size doesnt matter

Imagine how much money you could make selling access to specific websites

You should start downloading it right now in case the internet goes down

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Right after Wikipedia, it would be the Arch Linux wiki.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

does that apply to the rest of Linux? I saw it in Kiwix but haven't delved into it

I did grab the ifixit zim though. pretty cool at only ~7gb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I've never used arch but their docs are so helpful. Been referencing them for years.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

I guess a lot of music and movies from a pirate site. I'd spend more time at the library listening to my music.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It’s individual universities.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

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 ones…), 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 haven’t started (yet).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

A decent chunk of that is in The Food Lab cookbook.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A full copy of Stack Overflow. Otherwise, we would not know how to get the Internet working again.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Somethings are better when done from scratch.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Arcane Season 1 and 2.

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