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Well, I would absolutely make a list of every single song I would ever want to download, every show/movie, every video from my favorite creators, and install my whole entire Steam/itch.io library, get the installers for every GOG game I have, get every single favorited art on FurAffinity/Weasyl downloaded, and then probably download an offline version of wikipedia to ensure I have plenty of things to do.
Would need tens of terabytes, if not a hundred plus terabytes, of storage to do all this, but I'd be gutted without the internet because of how much I use it.
I honestly don't think I could. It is way too integrated to how I travel/vacation. I've used paper maps in the past, but there is a lot more information there in online guides.
I mean if I had the disk space which I would prioritize redundancy and backup over more space if I never had access again and presumably could not get it from others. I would want wikipedia sure but honestly everything I could. Every game and media I could get my hands on. As much of the internet I could download like all of the internet archive or such.
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.
Offline wipideia, maps, dictionaries and study material in at least japanese and Norwegian, and every how-to video on farming, bikes, cars, tractos, home repair, and carpentry I could get my hands on. I actually prefer books for some things, but reading japanese is such a slog for me, having them in English would save a lot of time.
Maps and navigation. Human-to-human communication could still happen via phone call. But navigation is absolutely required now. I remember having to drive places with a simple map and it sucked.
Archive.org has archived an awful lot of websites and other data, including Wikipedia. If I had to take just one website, I'd take that one.
The equivalent to “infinity wishes”. Love it.
I've got a collection already downloaded using Kiwix on an old Android tablet's storage card.
Wikipedia, a metric ton of books from Project Gutenberg, Medwiki and other medical books, stuff on homesteading, the last edition if the CIA factbook.
I can edit after I get home from work with a more complete list. Basically, I scrolled through Kiwix and grabbed what looked useful if I didn't have internet.
Edit: As promised here is my complete list of downloads via Kiwix
Unsorted
- 3d printing Q&A
- Alpine Linux Wiki
- Amateur radio Q&A
- android Enthusiasts Q&A
- Archwiki
- Bitcoin Q&A
- CIA World Factbook 2020
- Drones and Model Aircraft Q&A
- Earth Science Q&A
- Lifehacks Q&A
- Linux man pages Docs
- Monero Q&A
- Open Source Q&A
- Photography Q&A
- Raspberry Pi Q&A
- The Guide to Online Anonymity
- Tor Q&A
- Wikipedia
Food
- Based Cooking Luke Smith
- Food for Preppers
- Gardening and Landscaping Q&A
- GrimGrains Recipes
- Prepper
- Water Treatment Library
Medical
- Military Medicine
- NHS Medicines A to Z
- WikEM
Prepper
- A library of knots
- Appropedia - Offgrid
- CD3WD Project
- Energypedia
- Knots by Wikipedia
- Motor Vehicle Mechanics
- Physical Fitness Q&A
- Post Disaster Resource Library
- Ready.gov
- S2 Underground - prepper stuff
- WikiCiv
Repair
- Bicycles Q&A
- Electronics Q&A
- iFitit
- Home Improvement Q&A
- Restarters - DIY repairs
- Woodworking Q&A
I already have 30 G of music, lots of TV series and movies, and all my own pictures plus a bunch of interesting ones from the internet. I also have a bunch of ebooks covering various topics including software development tech, wilderness survival, and bushcraft/homestead tutorials. I'd say I already have everything I'd take from the internet.
I've never been one to rely on the internet being available. If something is important to me, I save it just in case. Periodically I review what I have and purge what no longer matters.
The internet is not bad. The internet is not 5 websites. The old internet never went away. IRC never went away. Tildeverse is a thing. Gemini is a thing.
I like the idea of gemini. But at the same time, plain html is not so bad? If all you want is text and links, we can do this with html too right? Maybe browser complexity is the issue? With a simple text-only browser a web page would just be text. Most modern sites wouldn't work, but... that's the point I guess.
No its not its just covered in my old internet statement. My point is the web is not the internet and web 2.0 is not the web. Webrings can still be a thing. A new protocol can be created tomorrow that learns from the lessons of corporate capture and builds a defense against it.
maybe just avoid the social media sites.
Well, porn, of course.
Already mentioned in OP, but a copy of Wikipedia would be first priority.
To say something else, I'd also grab the archive of GameFAQs guides.
As much music as I can
Annas archive.....
Anna's archive does not host files itself but links to third party downloads. So without the internet it would be useless.
anna's archive's archive! (I wonder how many tb or pb that would be? same with the internet archive.)
The source files for Annas Archive seem to be around 1900 TB.
hell yeah.
Recipes! I gotta do something with the long winded conversations!
Music and games. I'd be looking at GoG game installs.
Shrek
all stable versions of Dwarf Fortress and all the NES, SNES, and GBA ROMs and manuals I can find
uh, and a backup of my personal blog, I guess
maybe some old usenet/reddit archives..
All the porn
I have most of what I need/want outside of the Internet (books, newspapers, people to discuss with, places to go,... even my music and movies are physical media/offline). I would get back a tad more free time, I guess which would probably be great ;)
Books and manga, and music, honestly. Without video it would take some adjustment because honestly I use or more like background noise for my eyes and ears lol but I can manage.
Books can be fictional and non fictional stories, manuals, guides and recipes.
Don't see myself lasting long without Invideous or Soulseek.
Are we talking like I get to bring with me everything that currently exists on a platform or everything that will exist?
NGL I am on-site rn so I've only had phone data to connect me to the interner for two weeks now. It's pretty limiting but liveable.
Probably find a giant comic and manga archive since I won't be able to visit aggregators anymore.
I have gone long stretches without internet access(by choice) the longest being from 2015 - early 2019.
The biggest adjustment is lack of music and porn personally but you get over it pretty quick.
Somehow I need to know more how that came to pass.
I mentioned in a different post how I used to train hop but to sum it up i spent a lot of time on the outskirts of society surviving off what I could carry with some space to give for dog food which is self explanatory.
I hitchhiked, walked, biked and train hopped through the lower 48 while working off grid seasonaly.
I found it easier to move on from a place with no social media or phone # to tie me down to anyone otherwise I would have never left some towns. I met some really amazing people and I miss them very much but Im glad I made that choice.
That sounds amazing. Train hopping in Germany is pretty hard compared to the US sadly.