Of the 13 results that I can find on [[Kagi]] on [[2025-08-04]], Lowline has been referenced as - a former underground line in [[New York]] that was [proposed to be renovated into a park but the project was abandoned in 2020 due to lack of funds](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowline_(park)>) - a [real park](https://lowcountrylowline.org/) in [[Charleston]] - a [breed of cattle](https://breeds.okstate.edu/cattle/australian-lowline-cattle.html) Given this lack of presence online, I'm interested in co-opting the term for my own purposes. What purposes? I believe that the distinction between being [[online]] and [[offline]] is too black and white in the modern day where most people in rich countries always have some sort of networked device close by. The grey area between being online/extremely online and being offline/offgrid deserves some descriptors. So, I propose "Lowline" as one of those possible descriptors. If your device is connected to a network of other computers but the device and/or software running on it is avoiding the fully connected social media/ad networked infested modern internet and instead syncs data with a local or private serve, I'm going to call that lowline. If you have something like the [[Remarkable 2]], which is able to receive and send PDFs and ebooks synced from other devices, via the cloud or locally, and doesn't provide general web access, that's lowline. There's overlap here with the [[local-first]] and [[homelab]] movements.