Comment by WantonQuantum
Comment by WantonQuantum 11 days ago
I'm surprised no one has said Wikipedia yet.
Comment by WantonQuantum 11 days ago
I'm surprised no one has said Wikipedia yet.
When I did this a number of years ago, and it was only around 5-6GB, or about 20GB with all the images. I also added about 4GB for windows, android, iOS, Linux, and Mac OS apps to parse/view the data. All of that fits on a 32GB flashdrive that I used to keep on my keychain but currently is in my glove compartment I think.
It sparks some amazement in me still to wrap my head around the reality of so much information in a thing the size of my pinky. Or the size of my pinky nail if you use a micro SD card. And yeah, just took a weekend of downloading and setting it up, and flashdrives/microsd cards are easily found at department stores, or even gas stations sometimes.
Even disregarded any potential doomsday utility, the amusement/amazement it's brought me was well worth the modest time/money it took. I hope more people give it a try
People talk about investing in physical gold for an economic meltdown, I think stacks of microSD cards with the full contents of Wikipedia and a Netflix archive is worth orders of magnitude more in the event of a catastrophe
Has kiwix gotten any better? I tried to use it years ago, but it crashed more than once and had all sorts of blocking UI interactions.
You can download Wikipedia using instructions on this website: https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-f...