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What things should I datahoard that can be useful in the upcoming future. I have some zim files coming from kiwix that I host locally in my fileserver at home when the internet goes out. I dont know what else to hoard besides that.

your favorite tv show, wikipedia, i like collecting ebooks whats useful to you?

>>87147 i think it is perserving old games for me

Repost because I saw the other one is on /sec/ and this is probably the better board for that. Here is a selection of what I hoard >websites I like or need (you never know when one could go down, don't rely on your favorite blogs/wikis/websites being online until the sun explodes). Wikis in particular are easy to back up and a lot of them are an invaluable source of information >free/open source programs source code. Linux kernel, OpenBSD src tree Tor browser, I2P, Freenet, Monero wallet/node/miner i.e. source code of software that you want to build yourself or software that might get censored. once Tor/I2P/Freenet/Monero get censored, you better have the source code and not just binaries. Encrypted chatting software also is good to have the source code of. >books that teach you useful skills (programming, sysadmin, reverse engineering, soldering, electronics, lock picking, survival, cooking) >entertaining books, entertaining tv series/movies, entertaining music >ISOs of old, obscure, or important operating systems. Various Linux distros, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Haiku, Serenity, Windows (older versions might be useful to run old software, newer ones for testing software) >drivers for hardware that requires those >compilers, interpreters, shell scripts, dotfiles

>>87150 Hoard stuff you would use. Other people have said it. Also hoarding programs is pretty much useless. Backup your current operating system. Boom, all the software you'll ever need. Also you should check what the OS' you're hoarding actually do on install. There are a great many which require an internet connection to even install them, and many are pushing "netinstall" versions as the default download.

obscure media that is unlikely to be archived by others. you might end up being the one who prevents something from becoming lost media.

I started a project years ago to collect all of the information that would seem to be necessary to create a modern technological civilization from scratch. By "from scratch" I mean from stone-age all the way up to about 20th century. It would start with a means of acquiring the language skills necessary to read the rest of the collected information, and the technological skills necessary to decode the information from its physical storage media. I have tried to gather all of the best books on language, math, science, practical, industrial, manufacturing, and business skills, social, organizational, military skills, medical and health skills, major world literature, etc., that I could find. Luckily, I got most of it done before libgen became unusable. That, or a stripped down, bare-bones version of it, is what I would recommend as something worthy of hoarding.

>>87983 This is a cool idea but what's the point of having a bunch of books and documents if people are stuck with grug-level reading skills (aka no reading skills). I guess I'm confused about the stone age part

>>87986 Stone-age people are intelligent enough to learn reading and writing, as shown by aboriginal people all over the world. Ideally, there would be someone to teach it to them. Otherwise, it would have to be done starting with pictures, associating the pictures with sounds, associating the sounds with written symbols, and stringing the symbols together into meaningful phrases. That would be quite a task to create such a method in nothing but pictures and written synbols. But I think it could be done in such a way that intelligent stone-age people could figure it out. They would then have access to an immense store of knowledge.

>>87146 there are a million tech autists hoarding video games, anime and everything related to tech we could possibly need. I honestly think the most useful data hoarding will be info on the humanities (esp actually acquiring an education, not just huge archives of books sans context) along with medicine and civil engineering.