September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time
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September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time
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#2Really fascinating project. It sent a chill down my spine as I suddenly recalled being in school, both because of the videos as well as the OS (we used Macs in art/design class). This was before streaming and smartphones were around so the only way we could see what was happening was by going into classrooms with TV's hooked up. I don't think we had access to CNN but we probably watched some American channel. I felt like the world was going to enter a third World War, what with the immediate connection to Pearl Harbor. It was impossible to continue doing school work that day.
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#4Stuff like this makes me wonder if in the future there are entire planets where life is simulated virtually. "Live through the 90s" planet.
Would be interesting to have an entire website like this where you can tune to any day and hear the news. And eventually more than just media.
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#5I sometimes forget how surreal that day was. Was in high school at the time and sort of at “that age” where the world was still pretty small and revolved around me.
Mom waking me up to say “you need to watch this,” with the TV on and both towers are on fire. The morning variety newscasters breaking their household familiarity speaking in a frightening shock that was so out of character.
Still went to school that day and there was a big assembly and then we sort of carried on as normal through motions. I remember every week on Tuesday we had to turn in an analysis of a world event for one of our classes and mine suddenly felt so insignificant compared to the attacks (kinda wish I remember what I had written).
I think the pandemic has far more historical significance but nothing for me will feel more visceral than 9/11. I appreciate this is likely a very American -centric perspective but it’s how I feel.
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#6Stuff like this makes me wonder if in the future there are entire planets where life is simulated virtually. "Live through the 90s" planet. Would be interesting to have an entire website like this where you can tune to any day and hear the news. And eventually more than just media.
Sounds like you should read Hyperion! Such a good series...
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#7I had to change my OS timezone to UTC-6 (Central US) to get the timestamps in the web app to match up.
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#8https://www.youtube.com/c/WTCFOIAVideos
^ since the commenter didn’t explain what this is:
Upscaled versions of dozens of angles of 9/11 footage that were FOIA’d out of the NIST investigation into the buildings’ collapse.
A while ago I went on a binge and watched all of them. If you’ve only seen footage from news, mainstream documentaries, even at the 9/11 museum in NYC, there’s things you haven’t seen, awful terrible things, in a level of video quality that leaves no ambiguity for what you’re seeing.
Horrifying stuff, I don’t recommend it if you don’t want the images to stick in your brain forever.
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#9Really fascinating project. It sent a chill down my spine as I suddenly recalled being in school, both because of the videos as well as the OS (we used Macs in art/design class). This was before streaming and smartphones were around so the only way we could see what was happening was by going into classrooms with TV's hooked up. I don't think we had access to CNN but we probably watched some American channel. I felt…
> This was before streaming
I was in my office 20 years ago watching the streaming from the website of an Italian newspaper that was broadcasting the CNN news channel.
Streaming was already a thing in 2001.
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#10https://www.youtube.com/c/WTCFOIAVideos
^ since the commenter didn’t explain what this is: Upscaled versions of dozens of angles of 9/11 footage that were FOIA’d out of the NIST investigation into the buildings’ collapse. A while ago I went on a binge and watched all of them. If you’ve only seen footage from news, mainstream documentaries, even at the 9/11 museum in NYC, there’s things you haven’t seen, awful terrible things, in a level of video quality th…
> Horrifying stuff, I don’t recommend it if you don’t want the images to stick in your brain forever.
Except with all the 9/11 truthers, its helpful to have those images memorized.
The way the towers fall, how the planes hit, everything. The "truthers" will suggest alternative-truths, but if you remember the images perfectly, you'll quickly find holes in their arguments.