Wikipedia, music, cool videos.

I already have 30GB of math textbooks, I guess I'll just download another 70GB of textbooks on various subjects and sell them to students. Y'all gonna return after 5 years to a new Elsevier.

For myself? A midi-file library for music (1gb is easily tens of thousands of songs), some audio porn (video takes too much space), a whole bunch of E-Books (tabletop rpg, science, literature etc.), compilers for C, a bunch of core python packages etc.

Meanwhile I'd also head over to my university to warn staff of the impending doom such that they can spread the word to other institutions and start rescuing as much data as possible to non-digital formats.

Wasn't there a Uni project a few years back trying to summarize key civilization building concepts - like basic agriculture, tool making, shelter making, that sort of thing. Because whatever society described by OP is going to have serious problems.

Wikipedia is around 100gb

My ISP recently gave us notice of an extended period of planned downtime so I already gave this some thought.

yt-dlp is a godsend, especially if you reduce the quality. I just set it going on an old playlist for some YouTubers I enjoy. You can find a lot of old comedy on YouTube too which tends to be in playlists.

Other than that, none of classic Doctor Who is HD so doesn't take up too much space. BBC iPlayer works with yt-dlp too with the right settings.

Stock up on crypto memes.

Save just one Blu-ray backup. 😭 My NAS storage will suddenly be unavailable too or no?

Lines of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" in any format that can fill up 100GB.

Stellarium Gardening and Plant ID recognition software Mesh Networking Tools Obscure recipe and craft books File Sharing Tools Encryption Software Clonezilla 7-zip A Linux distro

I’ve been meaning to download the Beats In Space Radio mixes from their archive so I’ll just add that

Probably all the top huggingface weights, as they are basically the sweetened condensed internet.