offline_first.mdwn (376B)
1 **Offline first**, like its name implies, is the design of [[software]] or [[hardware]] that does not depend on connectivity. It is also an important part of [[designing for descent|design for descent]]. 2 3 According to Leslie Lamport (1987), "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable".