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[Hypothetical] The internet is getting shut down for 5 years. You have 100 GB of storage available, you have 24 hours to prepare. What do you download? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Lets say you live in a world where the world government has decided people are getting too addicted to the internet and ordered the internet to be shut down for 5 years. The 100 GB of storage is all you have (excluding essential system files for your Operating System). You have 24 hours before the internet is getting shut down. What do you download?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think the full dump of wikipedia complete with multimedia is like 5 GB. the text-only version is something like 100MB.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

22 gb without media

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

is that for all languages and with history?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I checked yesterday, English Wikipedia is 86 GB

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

huh. wonder where i got that from then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

English only with media is a bit over 100GB, at least the kiwix package is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

i wonder where i got the low number from then :/ can't find it now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you were smart about it and had time to prepare, you could find a way to restrict the size of the Wikipedia download by eliminating things that are likely to also be in print books and therefore much less important to preserve. It might have to involve some sort of machine learning element.