Just pertains to the internet, not computers as a whole. Like an offline version of wikipedia, favorite albums/movies/books. Any other ideas?

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    The fun I had in the early days of the Internet and the social connections in the times of old MMORPGs.

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    All the dots. . com would become com. 192.168.1.1 would become 19216811. All mentions of dippin dots would be affected across many different areas, though no one would be able to see it. Take all the tops off lower case I’s. It’d be fun.

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    Well, I would absolutely make a list of every single song I would ever want to download, every show/movie, every video from my favorite creators, and install my whole entire Steam/itch.io library, get the installers for every GOG game I have, get every single favorited art on FurAffinity/Weasyl downloaded, and then probably download an offline version of wikipedia to ensure I have plenty of things to do.

    Would need tens of terabytes, if not a hundred plus terabytes, of storage to do all this, but I’d be gutted without the internet because of how much I use it.

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    I’d be glad I chose the PS5 with an optical drive, though I’ll have little reason to play as I only really play online with friends

    I’d be disappointed as I’d have to work from the office

    If it was a general thing my employer would be unhappy as they only have office space for about half of us

    I’d download Wikipedia, and a lot of stuff from archive.org, all my photos and online stored stuff, the rust book

    Thinking about it, I think it would be impossible if it was just me - so much of my work is online and must be as my team is distributed around the country

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    Offline wipideia, maps, dictionaries and study material in at least japanese and Norwegian, and every how-to video on farming, bikes, cars, tractos, home repair, and carpentry I could get my hands on. I actually prefer books for some things, but reading japanese is such a slog for me, having them in English would save a lot of time.

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    Already mentioned in OP, but a copy of Wikipedia would be first priority.

    To say something else, I’d also grab the archive of GameFAQs guides.

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    I honestly don’t think I could. It is way too integrated to how I travel/vacation. I’ve used paper maps in the past, but there is a lot more information there in online guides.

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    Maps and navigation. Human-to-human communication could still happen via phone call. But navigation is absolutely required now. I remember having to drive places with a simple map and it sucked.

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    Archive.org has archived an awful lot of websites and other data, including Wikipedia. If I had to take just one website, I’d take that one.