Internet in Box Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

  The D Library - 100% decentralized operating on the D.Licence (pun intended). Currently working on a solidity upgrade for a leader-board, and public analytics. D-Safe for children, adults and plants. I am looking for contributors to integrate it on https://internet-in-a-box.org . No worries, I'll do it myself if everyone is busy. https://datapond.earth Email: data at datapond.earth. - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Wikipedia: Database Download

  There's already a project to serve the use case you're describing (school in a disconnected village): Internet in a Box https://internet-in-a-box.org/ They provide offline access to Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Project Gutenberg, and many other resources. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

• How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?

  Use a tool like Internet-in-a-box and keep a "local" version of tons of very useful stuff like Wikipedia and Maps. Source: over 1 year ago

• Discussion: Do you think 'internet-in-a-box' would be a useful / helpful thing to bring?

  Internet-in-a-box is a Free, Open source offline internet tool. Its a step up from having an offline wikipedia copy, it has a lot of Ebooks, and a offline version of Khan academedy youtube videos, and more etc. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Consoom soylent and Harry Potter movies

  #1: iFixit is now available for offline use #2: Internet-in-a-Box - an Offline copy of the best of the Internet (Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Khan Academy, Stack Exchange, ETC) | 2 comments #3: Where There Is No Doctor - a village health care handbook | 2 comments. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Build a pocket sized touch computer for cheap!

  IMO the best use case is https://internet-in-a-box.org/. You download a bunch of stuff like Wikipedia, videos, books, etc, and any device with WiFi can access them. Much better than relying on something like a laptop or old phone with all of these resources on them. Get a couple of Raspberry Pi's and some SD cards and you can clone them all and have lots of backups. They are small and use little power so you can... Source: almost 2 years ago

• I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing

  This is awesome, but for those of us that don't feel like spending ~$1200... May I suggest internet in a box. Source: almost 2 years ago

• An argument for why we need to start hoarding books and textbooks immediately.

  Not a hard copy, but unless you’re worried about something destroying all electronics, you can make an offline library with Internet in a box. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Best model to act as info hub for preppers?

  Check out https://internet-in-a-box.org. Plus, there are ebook libraries on torrents that contain all the ebooks found on the internet. They are probably illegal though. Source: about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, how could use my time?

  Https://internet-in-a-box.org/ Bringing a few of these would help the local community! - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Off grid computing

  Https://internet-in-a-box.org/ is pretty darn close to what you are looking for. Source: about 2 years ago

• Operation CHARM: a Redditor set up a not-for profit site of a collection of 50,000 car repair manuals from 1982-2013

  Look into Internet in a box or WROLpi as ways to serve the content. (A cookie to anyone who writes a howto on getting them both running on the same box; they have some overlap but serve different needs.). Source: about 2 years ago

• Would there be a way to keep a connection via computers post apocalypse?

  Internet in a box is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, but people have been posting arduino builds to cover wide areas. Source: about 2 years ago

• How to excercise activism under absolute surveillance?

  Are you tech savvy at all? You could create your own internet. It wouldn’t be connected to the Big Internet at all. I’m making one. It will actually be my second one. The first one I followed the guides on internet in a box but my second one is following Anarchosolarpunks recipes for an off grid internet. Source: over 2 years ago

• I feel like loading up on information on how to survive if TSHTF is kinda pointless so is there a website, maybe a pdf or multiple that would be really useful if TSHTF.

  I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so check out Internet in a box. It's on my long list of things to do. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?

  Internet in a Box might be a good place to start: https://internet-in-a-box.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• How to figure out the cause of my pi 4 crashing?

  I mostly run NetBSD on my Pis, but I did try out "Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)" a few weeks ago while checking out Internet-In-A-Box (IIAB), and I was rather shocked at how often the whole OS crashed or locked up hard. This was on hardware that was 100% stable and happy with NetBSD. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How long do y’all think the Internet will be around?

  So long as there is electricity to keep things running the internet will be there. How big it will be and what it will look like is a completely different matter. Also... https://internet-in-a-box.org/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Internet in a Box

  Great project I will follow up on it directly from https://internet-in-a-box.org/,. Source: almost 3 years ago

• IP over (not quite) Avian Carrier, But For Real

  Personally I've been playing with trying to marry internetinabox and othernet into a single web interface running on a single solar-powered box, possibly with some Piratebox or BBS functionality on the side. Also hopefully a Meshtastic relay node tied to it, and the eventual goal of tunneling IP over Meshtastic. I have a few friends a few miles away also playing with Meshtastic so we could theoretically exchange... Source: almost 3 years ago