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?
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.
So you’re saying it would be my last chance to download a car?
Lol why do you assume this is a capitalistic world government, maybe its a socialist world government that gives out free cars, who knows 🤷♂️. Also you are being liberated from the internet, do not resist. 😉
(Resistance is deal with by 💥🔫)
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.
Wait, the kids are alright potentially
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?
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.
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.
still is a way to dl the whole db. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Not a .pdf but a .zim that requires its own software to read. And not “it used to”, its still possible now, and new versionnare constantly being added.
Google “Kiwix”. You have to download the reader software, then the .zim file. It’s also cross-platform, available on many platforms, you can even have it on your phone.
Its actually used by various non-profit organizations to spread knowledge in developing/undeveloped countries. The latest version of the entire English wikipedia is like 100GB with photos and audio files, its 50GB with text only.
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.
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
herour basement!Hard drives is the new [male genitalia] measuring contest? 🤔
This thread suggests that some people certainly think so. I suspect the rest of us disagree.
MUUUUUUUUMMMMMMM the router is downnnnnn plz call the internet people
Download factorio and dwarf fortress
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
Best answer. The other 90GB is irrelevant.
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.
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.
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.
100 GB is some rookie numbers. I’ve had 8tb for years, I’m only half full and the drives are starting to age out. I’ve already replaced one with a 4tb drive, once the rest are replaced, it’ll be 16tb total.
When you think you are bragging, or something, but you are actually just doing hypotheticals wrong…
Assume that the government in this scenario, which has the power to shut down Internet, can also steal your storage capacity.
What government ?
The hypothetical in the OP.
“world government” fair enough I didn’t catch that
