The Internet is fragile. Websites disappear (link rot studies show significant decay over 5 years), services shut down, and access can be cut by infrastructure failures, censorship, or economic collapse.

Kiwix — offline reader for free, compressed ZIM files of major knowledge sources. No internet required once downloaded.

Also available: Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, TED talks, Crash Course, Khan Academy, medical wikis.

Full library: library.kiwix.org

Running in Docker:

docker run -d \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v /path/to/zim/files:/data \
  ghcr.io/kiwix/kiwix-serve:latest \
  --library /data/library.xml

ArchiveBox — personal web archiving. Already running in this homelab at archive.folk.zone. Preserves bookmarks, research papers, social media content, and legal evidence archives. Data is readable without needing to run ArchiveBox itself.

See ArchiveBox service page.

dweb-mirror — Internet Archive's open-source project for creating offline mirrors of their collection. Designed to address lack of internet access as a factor in educational outcomes and poverty.

HTTrack — downloads entire websites to a local directory, recursively building all structures and preserving link architecture.

httrack "https://example.com" -O "/path/to/mirror" "+*.example.com/*"

Over 70,000 free books in 60+ languages. New texts added daily. Mirror via rsync:

rsync -av --del aleph.gutenberg.org::gutenberg /path/to/mirror/

Mirroring guidelines: gutenberg.org/help/mirroring

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