The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fttklr on 2024-07-29 07:04:33.
I would like to freeze in time my computer room, running a local server with a couple of 10 TB drives holding movies, music and other stuff from the 90s. So all the computers connected in that room basically are "period appropriate" in terms of the media they get access to.
Although I want to go a step beyond and have also a snapshot of internet so it can be used offline. I found some mention of people doing that for Wikipedia, so it can be browsed offline, but I wanted to do something like the wayback machine instead... So have basically internet as snapshot at a specific date, as it was in 1998 for example.
From my research, the big jump in websites happened around the 2000; when we went from few million websites to about 13M. That was basically when the web just exploded in a way that made the curve a steep one, so if I stay beyond the year 2000 maybe I can still fit the entire internet as it was on a decent amount of space for offline browsing?
Is this even feasible or should I reduce the range further? Or is something like this not even possible? I am just envisioning to have altavista, yahoo and all the old websites up and running locally offline; with their news, articles and stuff as they were at a certain point in time. I am sure that crawling the waybackmachine is not a thing that make sense, so I was wondering if anyone attempted something like this and if so, how you would go by.