They put "About" in the Help menu?!
Jokes aside this is an incredibly well executed visual, and the throwback to the MacOS 8 era of my high school (where I was when this was happening) adds meaningfully to the impact.
September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time
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#12I'm old enough to have pretty vivid memories of watching a lot of this live. I don't really want to relive it. Keep the memories alive? Certainly. But rewatching? Too much.
Also, while we can't change the past, we're facing a massive challenge that is devouring thousands of people on a daily basis; let's commit to doing everything we can to defeat that particular monster. That is something we can all help with, in our own way.
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#13I had to change my OS timezone to UTC-6 (Central US) to get the timestamps in the web app to match up.
Thank you! I appear to be an hour out of sync and my OS is on Mountain Time
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#14I'm old enough to have pretty vivid memories of watching a lot of this live. I don't really want to relive it. Keep the memories alive? Certainly. But rewatching? Too much. Also, while we can't change the past, we're facing a massive challenge that is devouring thousands of people on a daily basis; let's commit to doing everything we can to defeat that particular monster. That is something we can all help with, in ou…
somehow this makes me feel old...
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#15I'm old enough to have pretty vivid memories of watching a lot of this live. I don't really want to relive it. Keep the memories alive? Certainly. But rewatching? Too much. Also, while we can't change the past, we're facing a massive challenge that is devouring thousands of people on a daily basis; let's commit to doing everything we can to defeat that particular monster. That is something we can all help with, in ou…
Heck yeah! What are you doing to help? I'm pretty exhausted at this point, hard to focus.
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#16Stuff 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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#17It is incredible reliving this experience, knowing what was to come in the two decades after.
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#18I 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 I ended up stationed in Washington, D.C. and from my barracks I could see the construction cranes working on the damage to the Pentagon.
So it's this weird combination of feeling connected since I was in the military when it happened and then lived near one of the sites, but I also missed a lot. This site could help me see some of the experience I missed.
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#19I 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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#20I 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/