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Just pertains to the internet, not computers as a whole. Like an offline version of wikipedia, favorite albums/movies/books. Any other ideas?

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 minutes ago

The equivalent to “infinity wishes”. Love it.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 41 minutes ago

maybe just avoid the social media sites.

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Libb@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

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 ;)

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Music and games. I'd be looking at GoG game installs.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

As much music as I can

[–] Melobol@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Anna's archive does not host files itself but links to third party downloads. So without the internet it would be useless.

[–] gilokee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

anna's archive's archive! (I wonder how many tb or pb that would be? same with the internet archive.)

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 1 points 17 minutes ago

The source files for Annas Archive seem to be around 1900 TB.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago
[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago

Well, porn, of course.

[–] DudeWhoYapsTooMuch@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Recipes! I gotta do something with the long winded conversations!

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

maybe some old usenet/reddit archives..

[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

All the porn

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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?

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] YabbaDabbaDipshit@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Somehow I need to know more how that came to pass.

[–] YabbaDabbaDipshit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

What, like, I'm permanently air-gapped with no wireless? NNCP