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You can easily download wikipedia to a USB drive. Do it yourself pal
Already got a copy on my NAS, I update it every year or two when I remember to.
But you've missed the point, my personal access to a Wikipedia text snapshot is not equivalent to the free access of information to everyone. The information just existing somewhere isn't enough.
And anyway a person can't practically keep their own copy of the Internet Archive. It takes up something like a quarter of an exabyte
It existing somewhere is better than nothing, though. Internet archive on the other hand, that one is a lot harder.
Yes of course
But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else
Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:
There's very little else we've created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.