Off and on I&#x27;ve made an attempt like this before, turning an external hard drive into an offline repository of things I find interesting.<p>I used to go through artists and download paintings, photos of international landmarks, books, games, classic shorts, tutorials, etc. with the idea that maybe it&#x27;d be useful someday, or a digital archaeologist might somehow run into it sometime. Some of it came straight from Project Gutenberg and Archive.org.<p>I wasn&#x27;t very good at keeping up with it, though, but I still think that people rely on the omnipresence of broadband a little too often sometimes. I do still have the archive, though.<p>I&#x27;d love to have some sort of tap where I can just download a whole ton of this crap, possibly curated. Bit torrent is basically that, but its focus is on the new hotness and a hell of a lot less on the classics.<p>Even a blog that compiles a bunch of random open source stuff into a torrent and shares them with people would be nice. I can find this stuff individually, but that takes a lot of time and hunting.