This is kind of funny because of course everything before about 2001 was “local first”. There have been multiple generations of patterns for connecting a local

This is kind of funny because of course everything before about 2001 was “local first”. There have been multiple generations of patterns for connecting a local app to a network for collaboration, so there is a lot of history to check out. Ray Ozzie’s Groove was the closest thing I can remember to this: a local object store with P2P and central-store connectivity, based on a common synchronization algorithm. CRDTs have come a long way so that may be an important new angle.