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The internet is going down for 5 years? Books and video instructions about farming prolly, I'll probably be unemployed if there's no Internet.

Start running wires and make a intranet with my neighbors. WiFi would be easier, but would the internet police be looking for signals?

Would Netflix go back to mailing physical disks? Would I have to go buy albums? Weird. You could buy of borrow the physical media and add it to your intranet.

I'd probably download a couple TV series and some music. I'd also get software to make sure I can copy and store everything.

So you're saying it would be my last chance to download a car?

Nothing, because the rest of the world is trying to do the same thing and the internet is now essentially DDoSed into oblivion 24 hours early.

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet:

Project Gutenberg.

It's pretty much all copyright-less (?) books. About 40GB.

I'd probably also torrent a shitton of less-than-legal books. Mostly because they're copyrighted, not because the books themselves are illegal. I would survive the rest of my life on books. Maybe a few GB of music - I'd need some background noise if I were to study.

Some free OS' like Debian and FreeBSD, and their manual. Maybe some magazine about both?

5 years? Hm, time to get some stuff from the 90s, when the internet was a timed luxury, so plenty of emulators and roms, they won't take much space. Videos are out, some porn will have to be static pics, some as gifs.

Also, gotta have Factorio, Palworld, dwarf fortress

I'd download as much 480p TV, movies, etc as possible as quickly as possible.

There used to be a way you could download all of the Wikipedia text as a PDF. I'd pop that bad boy on a Kindle and have my own Hitchhiker's Guide.

Well obviously I'd download 100 GBs of more RAM.

But uh, for serious?

DL everything I'd need to build Debian from bare metal... probably some select material from the IA, basic survival stuff, info on how to set up a solar power system... and all the I2P software and source code i can find.

If the Net goes down, but the physical hardware still exists, cables, radios, wifi cards... build your own Net.

In this thread: dorks using it as an opportunity to brag about their large storage epeens.

But then what happened to my 120 petabyte network attached storage, host to every episode of Inuyasha in multiple releases, languages, and resolutions?! My mother would surely notice having space again in ~~her~~ our basement!

Download factorio and dwarf fortress

I have a 100% remote job a few hundred km away. Even if you made the exception for remote work, my job would basically be pointless because our company operates entirely in the online world.

I also wouldn't be able to Skype or even email my aging family back in the US.

Also, in very rural Japan, online shopping is a huge saver of time and money. I'd also have to watch OTA Japanese tv which mostly sucks.

I was thinking just various learning materials, but I think you can just shoot me instead sometime before the bank repo's my house

I would buy a ton of storage devices as secretly as possible and hide them, hoping the government doesn't notice. Then I'd use the drives to make a sneakernet type situation.

You should make this a writing prompt

Oh, I'll get Call of Du... Ah shit it's download didn't finish

Wikipedia and a lot of games. A bunch of programming tools and libraries. My Spotify playlist. Video is the least efficient so you'd have to limit that a lot.

Godot, Blender, Gimp, latest tutorial series for all three, Wikipedia (which I already have), music, fill the rest with art assets.

If I can't download games I will simply make them.

Lines of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" in any format that can fill up 100GB.

My ISP recently gave us notice of an extended period of planned downtime so I already gave this some thought.

yt-dlp is a godsend, especially if you reduce the quality. I just set it going on an old playlist for some YouTubers I enjoy. You can find a lot of old comedy on YouTube too which tends to be in playlists.

Other than that, none of classic Doctor Who is HD so doesn't take up too much space. BBC iPlayer works with yt-dlp too with the right settings.

Lots of anime. Some cherished games. I feel like i don't need a while lot of porn. Maybe those 5-6 vids that I currently frequent. That will probably get me through. Other than that; House; maybe all of Stargate but prob would never get to it; HBO watchmen series is totally rewatchable and would probably grab the movie too; bunch of misc horror films; all of law and order. Probably missed some stuff but the biggest loss would be all the new stuff that won't be released.

Hah, I've been collecting all my needs offline for a while now. Because companies keep turning to subscriptions and other ##. I'm pretty sure my archive of apps is under 100GB

Wasn't there a Uni project a few years back trying to summarize key civilization building concepts - like basic agriculture, tool making, shelter making, that sort of thing. Because whatever society described by OP is going to have serious problems.

100 GB

looks at my nas, already stuffed with several TB of content, chuckling

Some panic, while others were ready since the dawn of time. I'll add that extra 100 gigs to my drive collection though...

(it's lots of games, media, and yiff. And yeah, it is enough to hold me over for 5 years. No, you can't see it. :p)

I already have 30GB of math textbooks, I guess I'll just download another 70GB of textbooks on various subjects and sell them to students. Y'all gonna return after 5 years to a new Elsevier.

Wikipedia, kernel sources and some LLM models

Is it 100 GB in addition to what I already have saved or 100 GB of total storage? Because if it's 100 GB of total storage then I wouldn't be thinking about downloading, I'll be thinking about what I want to keep.