• Engywuck@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Wikipedia is the only piece of the internet I would save from apocalipse. Like, seriously.

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        I don’t know if you’re making fun of me, but, seriously, for me Wikipedia is an enormously valuable resource, much more than, for instance, YouTube (which I use, maybe, twice per year).

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          There is a lot of People with a copy of Wikipedia, it only takes 8GB. Just for the case something happens. I dont think he is making fun of you.

          Edit: this 8 GB was 10 years ago. From another article from 2022 it says 150Gb.

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          Some folks enjoy reading articles. Some folks enjoy to watch, listen and read (captions) at the same time. Some folks rather ask around and learn through conversations.

          I’ve understood that it’s generally easier to learn new things when you use many different channels (audio, imagery etc). To many people but not to all.

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        I remember in the mid-aughts my brother hacked his iPod — the wheel kind, this was pre-iPhone — to hold the entirety of the text of English Wikipedia at the time.

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          According to my app, the whole English Wikipedia with pictures weighs 102.62GB, down to 60,06GB without.

          There’s also a mini version that weighs 58,29GB but I don’t know what it contains

          Wikipedia 1m Top Articles weighs 43,53GB

          kiwix

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              The other comment checked a 10 year reddit link but didnt notice the date untill it went to search for it again because of this thread. Dumbass!

              Source: it was I, the guy that did the comment.

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      It’s less than 90 gig to do a full backup. I can have the sum total of human knowledge on a 1TB external SDD, and still have room for Skyrim and my modlist.

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      What if you need to remember how to procreate? I hear there are a number of informative videos about how to out there.

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      It would also be nice to have a p2p service still up in the internet apocalypse to share all the things we have left.