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

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Post by dharmab »

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #40

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 horrifi…

Did you not get the intro pop-up explaining this is intended for use as part of a history class lesson plan for students born after 9/11?

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

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Post by kenrose »

dharmab wrote: post #34
dragonwriter wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

It was CNN. Around 9:45 am it was slow, by 11 am it was down / text only.

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

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Post by zuppy »

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.

i remember all the news websites switched to simple plain html pages for a while, as their sites couldn’t handle the traffic. i still have a memory of a picture that i couldn’t find again: there was a never ending line of ambulances waiting, one behind another.

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

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Post by ISL »

If watching this footage makes you want to stand up and do something, remember that Covid-19 is killing as many people in the US every two days as died in these attacks.

Take small steps to make the world a better place, helping your neighbors, and you can take a stand against entropy.

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

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Post by asib »

Tenoke wrote: post #36

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…

> 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.

I definitely agree to an extent with the sentiment of this - there are numerous attacks in recent times across the world that have killed hundreds of people each and they generally receive very little coverage. However, I also think it perhaps downplays the significance of the WTC attack. 9/11 is still the deadliest terrorist attack in history by quite a significant margin according to [0]. I'd be surprised if a similar event in another country was not covered by world news outlets.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_viol...

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

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Post by analogdreams »

dharmab wrote: post #34
dragonwriter wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

i think it was CNN that did that.

i have a memory of trying to find out what was really happening sitting in one of my college's library's after an early morning class and trying to get anything to even respond, much less load. for some reason i remember 'relief' when i finally saw the CNN logo.

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

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

dharmab wrote: post #41
AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #40

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 horrifi…

Did you not get the intro pop-up explaining this is intended for use as part of a history class lesson plan for students born after 9/11?

No, I didn't notice that.

And if that's the intended use for this stupid website, then it's a terrible lesson plan they've made. It doesn't actually address any meaningful aspect to 9/11 besides make it appear to be from the "beforetimes."

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dharmab wrote: post #19
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…

There are very few days in history where so much changes in a single day. There's a very clear "before and after". In my opinion, the 1990s began on Nov 9 1989 and ended on Sep 11 2001.

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

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Post by telesilla »

rebuilder wrote: post #22
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’m not sure at all the pandemic is going to be more significant historically. The 9/11 attacks did what Al-Qaeda intended them to - got the USA mired in an expensive, unwinnable war, which ultimately broke the US will to fight and seems to have resulted in a major reconfiguration of US foreign policy.

Let's wait a while. The long term effects of the pandemic are yet to set in.
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