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.
If you’d download the whole wikipedia be sure to download the whole commets section for each article to have a perspective on discussions on conflicting reasons for edits. Also include all the wiki media materials for all of the public domain literature, project gutenberg, entire archive.org, a good offline OS to be able to consume all of the information and you’re golden
entire archive.org
How much would it cost to store like 100 petabytes for (conservatively) 40 years?
Can’t believe I’m the first to say this, but… porn.
Today I learned I’m unintentionally preparing for the Internet apocalypse.
A full copy of Stack Overflow. Otherwise, we would not know how to get the Internet working again.
Somethings are better when done from scratch.
archive.org, which contains wikipedia too. Checkmate!
The amount of data required for that would be immense. From what I’ve been able to find it’s over 200 petabytes.
Pff, rookie numbers. I have a 3k zettabytes data center at home
Would you like a roommate?
in my basement, sure
Youtube videos. I used to use youtube-dl exclusively, and then that stopped working, and I’ve gradually been sucked back into just using the website. But there’s a text file with a list of URLs I’ve been meaning to grab for posterity… and it’s getting kinda fat.
yt-dlp still works!
What makes you think I didn’t already download everything I want?
Nothing, I never said any such thing. In your case your answer to my question would be “I would not have to wish, because I already downloaded everything I want”. This makes you wise.
That’s a much classier way of calling someone a digital hoarder :)
Haha, I have an ok amount of data tucked away on disks as well, but I have a huge appreciation for people who do collect data as a hobby. In the contemporary, I fully believe that having people who take it upon themselves to do this is more important than ever, even thought it is often a thankless thing to do.
So in this case, I would throw a thank you your way for doing that!
