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Is there a collection of all human knowledge ever created ? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by saltynuts420@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Recently I was wandering if there is someone or some group preserving , collecting , organizing and publishing all the knowledge of mankind ever created throughout its existence so that if ever mankind faces the 6th mass extinction we don't have to reinvent the wheel and can have a kick start to our new post apocalyptic civilization .

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[–] Yazer@lemmy.ca 108 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wikipedia is a great start. You can download its entirety, roughly 100gb. Most of the basic and advanced human knowledge.

Check out kiwix to get it offline

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seconded Wikipedia. The amount of knowledge that can be gleaned in mere minutes from Wikipedia is insane. It contains enough information to do most stuff, aside from blatantly illegal things.

[–] Kyrass@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Luckily it isnt that easy to burn down every server as burning carpets in south america or books in other places

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can do all of Project Gutenberg too. It's only about 75gb, surprisingly.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

ASCII text is hella lightweight.