By "offline" resources is meant optical discs. By "optical" discs is meant CDs and DVDs. This reporter has 3 major encyclopedias on CD, 2 major dictionaries on CD, 2 large collections of Bible versions (for example King James, Douay Rheims, New International Version) on CD, an excellent globe on CD that can be tilted and spun "every which way," and zoomed in and out.
All those were designed for Windows XP or before. It is difficult to find similar products for later versions of Windows. That's because more and more people are choosing to depend on the information available online.
A problem becoming apparent with that is a waste of bandwidth. Most of that information has not changed in hundreds of years and is not likely to change later.
There can be the need for the latest news in politics. Lately people spend much more of their time on political news. It should be obvious that most of the important information is not political at all though. Perhaps you noticed it too, much of the "political" news is a waste of time.
When the internet began it created much excitement because it could provide "instant" coverage of world events. Some people thought it would make newspapers obsolete. Newspapers had already begun to decline long before the internet came along. Television news coverage was more convenient, although far less detailed. Some people thought that the internet would do the same thing to television that television did to newspapers. Of course quite many people still believe that and depend entirely on the internet for their news.
The internet however has not so much replaced television or newspaper news sources as simply making those established businesses available online. As it turns out, there really isn't much advantage to that. It still takes three days before the details of a story become clear. You will have all the valid information at about the same time whether you use the internet, television or even the newspapers.
Another advantage of instant internet information that excited many people is that it can connect the audience, the general public, in ways far beyond what was possible before. If your understanding of "democracy" is going by "what most people think" then you might believe the internet is the foundation of democracy.
The problem with that philosophy is much the same as before. It can result in farmers telling fishermen how to fish and fishermen telling farmers how to farm and people from very different schools deciding the details of other peoples' lives. If anything, the internet has only made that problem far worse.
There is a lack of valid guiding philosophy. There is a lack of qualified guiding philosophy. There is a "herd mentality." There is a disregard for established ideas and solutions. There is a further reduction in the quantity of text used to address problems. The full text of a thirty minute television news program would fill only half a page of a newspaper. The internet tends to be dominated by even smaller quantities of text. It has become more of a shouting match than a real address with deep understanding of the details of any problems.
The only other guiding philosophy to the internet beside the oblivious herd is the profit motive. The profit motive is not inherently evil, but without other guidance it can go terribly off course. The latest changes in the internet are designed to increase profits and rather obvious attempts at planned obsolescence. Decades ago computer technology did make rather significant jumps almost year by year, faster processors and larger capacity memories and data storage. There has however been little change in the speed of processors in the last decade. Larger capacity memory and data storage have exceeded the actual needs for them in the last decade. Rather than increase processor speed manufacturers put more processors on the same computer, "dual" or "quad" processors. The advantages of that are dubious at best except perhaps for watching higher definition movies. The problem there is that the overall content of new movies is not competing with older movies. Highly detailed graphics cannot replace stories that are quite interesting enough without high definition graphics. Some of the more interesting television program are still in monochrome. The Twilight Zone, the original series, and much of Alfred Hitchcock's work was in monochrome and many people are still buying those on DVD today.
Part of the mad rush to go online for everything has been the belief that it is more secure than depending on optical discs that might have "vulnerabilities" or other problems. That is of course absurd, but the profit motive is served by the belief that the latest is always the best.
Most of the security on the internet comes from the same source as anywhere else, the stigma of getting caught. For decades before the internet, people handed their credit cards to waitresses or waiters without much concern over being cheated. Although committing crimes at greater distances can mean less chance of getting caught, it is still not difficult to make the equipment you already have quite secure.