In: computer. Also: web-archiving.

Backlinks: e-mail, web-archiving.

Offline

In computer technology and telecommunications, offline indicates a disconnected state.
I would even increase the definition outside of technology.

“Offline” can refer to either computing activities performed while disconnected from the Internet, or alternatives to Internet activities.
The term “offline” is sometimes used interchangeably with the acronym “IRL”, meaning “in real life”.

Examples related to technology:

Storing web pages offline

Storing web pages for offline usage, while disconnected from the Internet, or in places where Internet is not available (such as a plane, or train)
There’s also value in archiving pages before the page disappears from the Internet either because of censorship, or because the website changes for some reason.
Keeping the page offline makes it possible to read the content on an ebook reader such as Kindle.

Web archiving tools

Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web to ensure the information is preserved in an archive for future researchers, historians, or the public.

Also:

Big list of Web archiving initiatives

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_archiving_initiatives

A big lists of web archiving tools (most of them are Online, not Offline)

https://reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/wiki/software#wiki_website_archiving_tools
Awesome web archiving list:
https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving
Web archiving community, tons of links:
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community

Communities

Data hoarder on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
Data curator on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/datacurator/
Archive team on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/

Offline dictionary

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Category:Dictionaries
> Dictd, GoldenDict, Sdcv

https://askubuntu.com/questions/191125/is-there-an-offline-command-line-dictionary
> Stardict, sdcv, dictd, aspell

Apps:

Offline documentation

Documentation for tools, programming languages and libraries.

Internet in a box

Internet-in-a-Box brings the power of a free Digital Library of Alexandria into the hands of any school, hospital, or community worldwide

> is used in libraries and medical clinics
> is in use in more than 20 countries, including remote mountain villages in India
> brings the best of the World’s Free Knowledge (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, E-Books and others) to those who are offline

The offline internet archive

How to put the Internet in a Box podcast

https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv1s

Access free knowledge - even offline

> Store Wikipedia or any website on your mobile phone or computer, easily
> Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks
> It makes knowledge available to people with no or limited internet access
> The software as well as the content is free to use for anyone

Offline thinking

Pencil and paper thinking

https://dgsiegel.net/articles/pencil-and-paper-thinking
By Daniel G. Siegel, posted April 6, 2021

The rolodex was replaced by your Contacts app, but its core is still the analog bundle of mostly-outdated information about your friends, colleagues, and peers.
A phone can still be dialed with a string of numbers like it was a hundred years ago, and we’re still forced to remember these numbers — or look them up when we need them.
When you open your favorite word processor you still see a blank page displaying an empty piece of paper. Why do we call these tools word processors when they actually are paper processors?
Most websites are mockups of papers as well. Text — line by line, and page by page. Maybe even an endless piece of paper, like your Twitter or Facebook timeline. Yes, we have hyperlinks, but are they really much more powerful than references?
Our keyboard and mouse are basically a typewriter on steroids. Sure, we rely on Copy and Paste, but a secretary from 50 years ago was pretty resourceful and ingenious.
Our apps are still as detached from each other as they were when they were physical machines on our desks, so it is almost impossible to transfer data between applications, which would enrich it in the process.

Print out your code on paper

https://medium.com/@tashian/print-out-your-code-on-paper-7c760a376bca

  1. Print it out

  2. Find a quiet room

  3. Bring a pencil

  4. Leave all devices behind. Fold up your laptop. Leave your phone at your desk. This is between you and the code…

  5. Sit there and read your code, line by line. Mark it up as you go.

Digital Shabbat

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