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.
Lots of code repos. Especially repos for programming languages, compilers, and Git.
What makes you think I didn’t already download everything I want?
Nothing, I never said any such thing. In your case your answer to my question would be “I would not have to wish, because I already downloaded everything I want”. This makes you wise.
Opera videos.
The Time Cube so I could rebuild society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
https://web.archive.org/web/19981212033445/http://www.timecube.com/
What the hell
Not to be confused with Times Square
I’m adding https://www.survivorlibrary.com/ to the list
A distilled DeepSeek R1 model.
Wikipedia would be the most valuable thing if I had to pick one, I guess.
An maybe the “your jimmies are eternal video” in case I need to unrustle my jimmie ever again.
Arch wiki with arch man docs.
annas-archive.org, arxiv.org, and maybe internet archive too if possible
Honestly, I think I’m mostly set already (as I often go backpacking and there’s no internet there). I have offline maps for the country I’m in and neighboring regions downloaded in OsmAnd and mapy.cz (two sources just in case), Wikipedia in Kiwix, and my custom NixOS setup as a bootable ISO on a flashdrive. I’ll probably miss being able to watch science/maths edutainment on YouTube, but it’s not something I’d download.
Today I learned I’m unintentionally preparing for the Internet apocalypse.
I already did.
Can’t believe I’m the first to say this, but… porn.
Youtube videos. I used to use youtube-dl exclusively, and then that stopped working, and I’ve gradually been sucked back into just using the website. But there’s a text file with a list of URLs I’ve been meaning to grab for posterity… and it’s getting kinda fat.
Perhaps instead of using youtube-dl or yt-dlp, you may enjoy some client such as freetube more, as it has a lot of the benefits of those tools, but without ads, and with sponsorblock/thumbnail correction, and other nice customizations. It also enables you to create playlists and whatnot.
You can hit a button to download directly from a video’s page as well, though I think that feature needs some love from the developers (you don’t get a loading bar on download).
yt-dlp still works!
Definitely entertainment, but beyond that, Networking classes so that I can hack together a intranet for my household and the neighbourhood
Having the whole wikipedia would get you a damn good start to getting back to civilization.
Only as good as you know about the topic, try doing a http server from just a Wikipedia page
