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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

huh? you can torrent a snapshot of the whole thing, and people all over the world do.

in a post-internet world there will be lots of wikipedias. it would be really nice if they manage to fix their data model to use a DVCS before the collapse, to make it easier to do merges between the different forks, but even if they don't... wikipedia will live on. (As will the factoid that Alan MacMasters invented the electric toaster...)