Just pertains to the internet, not computers as a whole. Like an offline version of wikipedia, favorite albums/movies/books. Any other ideas?
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.
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.
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.
As much music as I can
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.
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.
Music and games. I’d be looking at GoG game installs.
Recipes! I gotta do something with the long winded conversations!
Shrek
