Slashdot was the GOTO site in the late 90's early 00's for tech news...

Oxide made of ex-joyent (smartos) people, some of which were also ex-sun people (Bryan Cantril for example)

I miss the loading animation

You think that they created this app, got permission to use nerv and all the infrastructure to detect earth movements in a day after the earthquake??

Please be more realistic.

Depending on what you read, the end of WW1 created the seeds for WW2 basically due to the war reparations that Germany had to pay. This in turn created the hyperinflation which stoked unrest, and allowed the Nazis to flourish. John Maynard Keynes warned against the war reparations but none listened.

Source: Lords of Finance

The whole offline first thing is the feature here. Also it is open source fix it yourself.

To be fair: it is hard to not be around internet connected devices now