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.

  • @matto@lemm.ee
    39•4 months ago

    A full copy of Stack Overflow. Otherwise, we would not know how to get the Internet working again.

  • @ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world
    39•4 months ago

    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

      • @ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world
        10•4 months ago

        You mean electricity bills for powering the storage? I guess buying 100pb worth of storage disks would be pretty expensive enough but since it’s an archive there is no need to keep it powered 24/7, just turn them on only when you need to. It’s just a hypothetical situation anyway, it’s a thing I wish to have access to; only an experienced sysadmin can actually maintain such great archive or its copy/backup

      • @ralakus@lemmy.world
        3•4 months ago

        Let’s assume you have all hard drives and in a setup with absolutely zero redundancy in case a drive fails.

        We’re using the Seagate Exos X24 (24TB) drive which is roughly $700 each brand new.

        You’ll need 4167 of them to store 100PB. Which puts you at $2,916,900 just for the drives.

        Let’s assume you already have the enclosures, racks, and servers for a small datacenter ready to go.

        A drive can use 4-9w of power when spinning so assuming all drives are active (to ensure quick data access and data repair) that’ll be roughly 27086w for all the drives at 6.5w per drive. Every month (30 days), that is 19502kWh of electricity used. 40 years is roughly 349,680 hours so that comes out to around 9,471,433kWh used.

        Assuming you get some damn good electricity rates at $0.12USD per kWh, it’ll cost $1,136,572 to run just the drives.

        So in total, assuming you already have a datacenter with the capacity to install all the drives that runs on absolutely zero power, you’ll spend roughly $4,053,472 over the course of 40 years.

        • @ralakus@lemmy.world
          7•4 months ago

          There is a much cheaper way that doesn’t use hard drives. It uses magnetic tapes, LTO-9 tapes specifically.

          Each LTO-9 tape cassette can hold up to 45TB of data (compression is used to store it on the raw 18TB).

          An LTO-9 tape drive can cost $10,000. Assuming you get the full 45TB per tape, you’ll need 2223 LTO-9 tape cassettes to store 100PB. Assuming you buy in bulk, you can get each tape cassette for $150 which puts you at $333,450 for the tapes.

          Since the tapes don’t use power when not in use, this concludes the total cost. None of this accounts for storing all 2223 tapes or maintenance to ensure data is still intact on them but this comes out to $343,450 in total to store 100PB using magnetic tapes. While the cost is much cheaper, it’s much harder to access the data as it’s not immediately available since you have to fish out the drive you need and plop it into the tape drive then wait for it to read.

  • qyron
    13•4 months ago

    Assuming the web would go completely bust, I’d go back to a much simpler life.

  • Legendsofanus
    11•4 months ago

    Man I have never thought about it because of feeling so at ease with the digital video game stores and just downloading what I want whenever I want without keeping a physical library that would take up space. Same with books.

    If the internet died tomorrow, I would have the stuff I’m playing or reading or watching downloaded but I would be out of luck for anything else until it came back. Maybe it’s time to start a backup, get a big HDD or something

  • TacoButtPlugEnglish
    9•4 months ago

    I guess a lot of music and movies from a pirate site. I’d spend more time at the library listening to my music.

  • Dizzy Devil DuckyEnglish
    8•4 months ago

    All the images I have bookmarked on multiple devices from e621, any game I’ve been even possibly hesitating on pirating, all my Steam games (I don’t trust Inwouldnhe able to get in and install them if I could even get into my account to begin with at that point), and downloading every single song I have saved on yt and Newpipe because I’d never see them again.

    A whole slew of things.

  • apotheotic (she/her)English
    7•4 months ago

    All of kurzgesagt, minute physics, vsauce, Steve mould, matt parker, and veritasium. I think they’re invaluable education resources and it would be useful to be able to distribute them, or just have them for my own sake.

    • @balsoft@lemmy.ml
      2•4 months ago

      Honestly, while fun, those videos don’t provide too much value per GB - and I say that as someone who’s watched almost all of them. Their main actual benefit besides entertainment is (IMHO) getting people interested in the relevant field so they study more thoroughly. They often explain simple yet dazzling concepts which get you hooked but don’t provide much value on their own, and don’t directly enable you to solve real-life problems. Even more involved videos like those by 3blue1brown are still edutainment at their core, as acknowledged by the author. In an apocalypse (which, let’s face it, is the most likely reason the internet would indefinitely go down in a developed country) you would be much better off with engineering (mechanical, electrical, etc) literature and textbooks, maybe a couple science textbooks for good measure (I have a drawer full of the Feynman lectures in case something like this happens).

      • apotheotic (she/her)English
        2•4 months ago

        I don’t disagree with the sentiment but I think having accessible, entertaining education resources would also be a huge boon. They’re sure not going into depth on the topics but I imagine getting people “on the hook” could be huge, and then they can find other more educational resources from others in the community.