So much of what makes the internet useful is the collaborative aspect. Having a copy of StackOverflow at a static point in time is better than nothing, but losi

So much of what makes the internet useful is the collaborative aspect. Having a copy of StackOverflow at a static point in time is better than nothing, but losing the ability to ask or answer new questions or stay up to date is a significant loss. If you are a lone (or part of a small group) traveler, the thumb drive Hitchhiker's Guide is probably as good as it gets. If we had a colony on Mars (or more distant) a better solution would be to have a planetary WAN (the MWW?) Central servers could update news, movies, apps and other timely but read-only content over a wide-bandwidth, high latency channel to the WWW (Renamed in 2250 to the Earth Wide Web.) Community sites (like HN and SO) would have to be redesigned for multiple non-interactive WANs. Perhaps it would default to your home WAN for voting and commenting, but you could click a tab to view a read-only, slightly older version of different planets' contributions.