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September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by fit2rule »

pbourke wrote: post #20
sharkweek wrote: post #5

I 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…

> I think the pandemic has far more historical significance I’m not sure about that. Without 9/11, there would be no wars, perhaps no Obama, etc. It altered the arc of history in a profound way. The recent Frontline episode “America after 9/11”[0] draws a through-line from 9/11 to the events of Jan 6 at the U.S. Capitol. [0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/america-after-9-11/

America was fighting its heinous illegal wars prior to 9/11.

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Post by bdcravens »

justinzollars wrote: post #26

This website is a really good resource. The thing I remember from that day, I was 18, was that every channel on cable tv cut over to news: MTV, VH1, History Channel, every channel. cnn.com wouldn't load because it was being ddosed by all of the requests.

> cnn.com wouldn't load because it was being ddosed by all of the requests

Slashdot was one of the few sites that was able to stay up during that time, and it was struggling. Later in the day, CNN ripped out all their HTML, and put up a super simple design to optimize for staying up

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Post by perryizgr8 »

I was in my room, studying for some school test. My parents used to let me study, while they watched TV after dinner. That night they called me and showed the news to me. I recall it was CNN they were tuned into, and the second plane hit the tower right in front of my eyes.

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Post by dharmab »

dragonwriter wrote: post #28
dharmab wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> By the time I got out of training, the news cycle had moved on so it wasn't until the first anniversary of 9/11 that I saw the news footage of the event for the first time. This might seem strange to some younger readers, but remember in 01-02 internet video (and, indeed, internet faster than dial-up) was not ubiquitous. My family has a VHS tape recording of the news that day because that was how the average person…

> This might seem strange to some younger readers, but remember in 01-02 internet video (and, indeed, internet faster than dial-up) was not ubiquitous. And even if you used internet video (or, heck, even read news online), none of the sources (origins sites and Google and other portals) had the capacity to deal well with the major surge of associated with a event like 9/11. Everything online was spotty or broken unde…

I don't remember which news site, but one of the major ones had to go to a basic text-only format for several hours.

Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by fredoralive »

tpmx wrote: post #7

I had to change my OS timezone to UTC-6 (Central US) to get the timestamps in the web app to match up.

The BBC World feed seems completley out of sync as well, as if they used the BST times as if they were US east coast time, so it's like 5 hours behind everything else?

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Post by Tenoke »

I was 9 and angry that they interupted my tv show to show news (adult stuff) from the other side of the world. 20 years later and I have a better understanding of the situation but in a lot of ways I think everyone reacted and keeps reacting just how the terrorists wanted.

It's tragic but if this wasn't in America I likely wouldnt have even heard about the event nor would it be influencing my life this much later due to the ways others have reacted to it. I hope this doesn't read as disrespectful.

Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by bdcravens »

I'm actually seeing events I missed in real time - I was up overnight working. I worked for Sabre HR at the time, and kept going up to the office to run a massive PDF generation process for our performance reviews. (It was a terribly leaky VB process). I didn't wake up until after it happened, so I was hearing about it on the drive into the office. We all went home before noon. Within days the software we were writing for bonuses etc was for naught, as our stock price was crushed (Sabre came out of American Airlines, focusing primarily on travel agency software and Travelocity). Within a month I was let go (I was a contractor)

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Post by ISL »

phaedrus wrote: post #18

I was in USMC boot camp on 9/11/2001. You don't get much chance to consume media during training, and they put us on lock down and gave us only limited information. We knew kind of serious attack had happened, but not exactly what. By the time I got out of training, the news cycle had moved on so it wasn't until the first anniversary of 9/11 that I saw the news footage of the event for the first time. Coincidentally…

You may find that watching the retrospective footage will make you want to sign up for the Marines.

Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

What is the rationale for this kind of thing? What motivates a person to construct such a strange relic to 9/11 like this?

And how come, after doing so, did the creator fail to make any sort of reasonable points about the event?

This feels like some sort of opportunistic resume-building kind of project, made from the very real deaths of thousands of innocent people.

And not one mention was made about the US's horrific foreign policy that led to 9/11 in the first place. Such a wasted opportunity.

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