I am specifically asking about software and needed libraries, not stuff like Wikipedia or the writings of Ernest Hemmingway.
To keep people from archiving all of github on thousands of shucked external hard drives cobbled together all Frankenstein-y to create a postapocalyptic data center assume a ~1TB storage limitation. Though I’m sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D
I feel seen!
In all honesty, I’ve been doing something somewhat similar for the last 2 decades or so. Originally I was building my archives because I was often away from internet access. Now, though, it’s just become habit.
I started with basic first aid and medical texts and whatever other books and reference texts I found interesting. To that I also archive proprietary software and the source code and releases for the open source software I find useful. Add to that ISOs of the distributions I tend to use and I’m at roughly 3TB. I could probably cut that to 2TB if I remove the older Ubuntu and NixOS releases. I’m over 30TB if you include CD and DVD rips.
About the only thing I am missing from my current archives would be a clone of the Ubuntu and NixOS repositories for all of the “glue” dependencies that no one ever thinks of. After that you would just need the hardware to build out the network.