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Information about any skills I might want to improve or learn someday. Tutorials, professional reference sites, an archive of subreddits & other discussion communities dedicated to the topic. There's so much depth of experience and know-how for any given skill on the internet; this would be one of the hardest things to give up access to current information on.
Similarly, inspiration reference for a lot of creative skills I pursue or may pursue in the future. A huge pile of blog posts, Pinterest tag archives, and YouTube downloads. It'll be disappointing after a few years to not have easy access to current trends and styles, but hopefully enough of the reference is timeless.
I'd try to find some way to capture the vast amount of human life experience shared on the internet. Ask Metafilter archives, all the essays and blog posts I can find on different life stages and milestones and potential challenges that I can think of. It wouldn't be the same as being able to actually connect with other people going through the same thing, which the internet makes so much easier, but at least it'd still be comforting to know they existed and hopefully learn from what they wrote about their experience.
Overall I'd rather not swear off the internet. Everyone loves to complain about the bad parts, but I think it's a lot more dependent on how we choose to spend our time online than anything else.