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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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Perhaps https://archive.org/ is the closest you could get? With nearly a trillion web pages in its archive, I don't think I've ever come across a database of knowledge that comes close to it's collection. What's interesting is that archive.org preserves not only web pages, but several pieces of binary content such as music, movies, art and even software applications and entire operating systems. Not sure if it would be enough to rebuild our society, but it would be a great starting point for most of our essentials.
Specifically their OpenLibrary division. They had a mission to make as many books as possible digitally available and free for everyone to borrow but unfortunately they keep getting hit with lawsuits and slowly take down more and more of their collection.
It’s “its”, not “it’s”, unless you mean “it is”, in which case it is “it’s “.
your bein pedantic. its okieish. Kaithx for grammly lesson. your the bestest.
yes archive.org is pretty good in finding some very obscure and rare movie from 30s or 40s or some old books or niche software or music but most of the things on it are webpages and 100s of copies of the same webpage in different times (not very useful in a post apocalyptic world tho as most of the things on the archived websites you can't even click because its only a snapshot )