I think the question is indicative of bad faith … as if your being and identity was somehow dependent upon the persistent availability of external artifacts.

Yes, there’s some great stuff on the web and it’s a wonderful utensil for the realisation of certain projectual intentions … if it wasn’t there things would be different, for sure; but things are always “different” (if you see what I mean)!

The real interest in the question comes not from the actual response but, rather, from what one’s answer implies about the desire and inevitable inability to appropriate the web as a whole alongside a tangible sense of frustration and regret associated with that.

Perhaps you should use your meditation on the issue to re-focus your current web-related activities, rather than thinking of it as an exercise in some speculative “what if”?

Your thought about attempting to capture your memories of the internet as a place of social interaction is very intriguing – but misguided, I feel. Somehow, the fact that you would regard that as necessary suggests to me that there is still something insubstantial about those interactions (he says, writing a comment on a blog post!) Perhaps the internet reduces social interactions to such an ephemeral status that, like tourists in a foreign land, we need souvenirs to reassure us that it actually occurred? (I’m playing devil’s advocate here.)

It’s regrettable, but it would seem that even our relationship with the most dramatic real-world events would seem to have become infected by this impoverished objectification: I was reading only yesterday how onlookers at the attack on the twin towers were collecting ash as a souvenir … as if, even though they were present, it was not something that was actually happening to them. They were distanced from it …

… I leave you to see the relation between those points and the implications of that.

It is hard isn’t it. I have only one thing on my list so far.
http://del.icio.us/rodcorp/wikipedipocalypse

The batteries idea is excellent, though something on pedal-powered generation would be similarly useful.

Perhaps I might print something on the history of group-forming and socio-legislation for informal splintered communities.

PS: Barca things to do:
http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2006/08/going_to_barcel.html
and get Losowsky’s Le Cool book if you have time. Great city. Check opening times for stuff as it’s August. Have fun!