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?
Oh, I’ll get Call of Du… Ah shit it’s download didn’t finish
The bigger joke is that (IIRC) all of the latest CoD games require a consistent internet connection to verify that you actually purchased the rights to the video game. Even if you’re playing offline.
Personal medias, Wikipedia, LLM models, good for searching without net innacurate but better than nothing. Instruction how to setup alternative to internet, good chance there is going to be an underground version. Sms contact list of all your friends/families, did not say sms no longer available. Games, eBooks like electrical, health, laws and programming.
ROMs
A 100GB of ROMs
Download factorio and dwarf fortress
Best answer. The other 90GB is irrelevant.
A few years ago I was living in fear of local government turning internet into intranet north korea-style (dont ask). So - no joke - I’ve had factorio archived with latest versions of seablock, space exploration and nullius. Figured it’ll keep me going for a decade or so.
Add Rimworld to this list
And Crusader Kings 3
Wikipedia, music, cool videos.
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.
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 think in this scenario you just have to pretend we are ok economically, because of the Internet went down entirely, the world economy would completely collapse in a few hours to days.
100GB?? I’d be more worried about WTF will happen to the rest of my 100TB of storage
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Sounds like a good chance to catch up with my backlog of games.
I would check so I can play everything I want offline then just get as much as I can.
All my movies and TV and wikipedia.
I watched a 87gb rip of Godzilla Minus One last night… I might need to bring down my bitrate standards if I want to fit all my movies
Stellarium Gardening and Plant ID recognition software Mesh Networking Tools Obscure recipe and craft books File Sharing Tools Encryption Software Clonezilla 7-zip A Linux distro
Books. Small games (ROMs or not). Ubuntu (Debian doesn’t come with a working desktop). Compress my music collection to AAC192. Stuff like that.
SneakerNet will still exist, so your friends can download different stuff each and transfer it over a local network, or a flash drive. Different people might connect their own local networks to facilitate ease of communication, and boom, you have an internet again. By its very nature of being decentralised, the internet is very difficult to shut down completely.
Books and music. The more the merrier
*Redbox throws hands up in frustration
