Have you ever stopped to think what a world without internet access will look like? You are one EMP/Cyber Attack away from finding out.
Truth be told, the fact that I googled the Simon & Garfunkel song “Sound of Silence”
to be sure of the second verse was correct is telling in itself.
I recently watched the two videos below that got me thinking about life without instant information at my fingertips and what I would miss most if it were “gone in 60 seconds”.
MEDICAL INFORMATION
Sure, I have “Where there is no doctor” and other books, but how much easier and how much more information would be available if I could download a searchable Wiki of medical information?
Good news you can download a Medical Wiki and others via a simple program called Kiwix Wiki.
KIWIX
Is a great program with many Wiki type downloads available off their website.
My Kiwix Downloads
These are easily downloaded from inside the Kiwi app, there are a lot more on their server and you can open any .zim file from others with the app.The best interface is to open the webserver from inside the app IMO.
Besides a few Wiki downloads I started thinking about other items I want to save and came up with the following. I’m sure I will be adding to the list as I consider the question “what would I want to have access to in a grid-down situation?”
WEBSITES
Great program for downloading complete websites off the internet.
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
HAM Radio
Free Movies
Sermons / Church History from Dr. Pidgeon
PICTURE DOWNLOADS
Aurura Frame
iCloud
EVERYDAY BACKUPS
These items are aside from my normal backup of data I keep on two redundant Gorilla Drive 64GB USB sticks, using https://freefilesync.org/download.php which works on Windows & Linux.
Keeping critical programs and documents on redundant thumb drives is the only way to go IMO. No risk of loosing it all if a CPU crashes or virus gets installed.
TESTING
The only way to know what you are missing is to get into the habit of searching your off-grid collection first. Example, I searched the gardening wiki for a fungus I was seeing on the tomato plants and found it. Good to know!