9/11 in Realtime
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9/11 in Realtime
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#3The OS desktop-y simulation is a nice idea, but it makes the site unusable on mobile. Even the video player seems unnecessarily complicated. So unless you have a full screen available to you all day, you're gonna miss out on a lot.
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#4Related:
9/11 in Realtime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37467077 - Sept 2023 (148 comments)
September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28492719 - Sept 2021 (445 comments)
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#5Quoting user nyx from the last time this was posted.
>To fix the broken timestamp in the upper right, open your JS console and set timeZone.diff equal to your negative UTC offset. I'm in US Pacific Time, so I ran timeZone.diff = 8
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#6The OS desktop-y simulation is a nice idea, but it makes the site unusable on mobile. Even the video player seems unnecessarily complicated. So unless you have a full screen available to you all day, you're gonna miss out on a lot.
I don't think this is intended to be used on mobile. From their intro/disclaimer: a multimedia experiment for teachers, with the purpose of helping their students truly understand and absorb the events of September 11, 2001.
Also, there were no smartphones on 9/11/2001, it helps with immersion :)
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#7The OS desktop-y simulation is a nice idea, but it makes the site unusable on mobile. Even the video player seems unnecessarily complicated. So unless you have a full screen available to you all day, you're gonna miss out on a lot.
I don't think this is intended to be used on mobile. From their intro/disclaimer: a multimedia experiment for teachers, with the purpose of helping their students truly understand and absorb the events of September 11, 2001. Also, there were no smartphones on 9/11/2001, it helps with immersion :)
I get that, but even in schools you'd need a monitor at this at all times. Overall it means you limit the audience to a fraction of its potential for what is essentially a gimmick that is not part of the story to be taught (and it's clearly intended to teach). You could easily simulate TV screens on a static page, which is also how most people would have experienced this. I doubt the fraction of people following the news on a Mac was significant back then.
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#8The OS desktop-y simulation is a nice idea, but it makes the site unusable on mobile. Even the video player seems unnecessarily complicated. So unless you have a full screen available to you all day, you're gonna miss out on a lot.
FWIW it works fine for me on mobile. The default layout is odd but it's possible to move and resize every window.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think this is intended to be used on mobile. From their intro/disclaimer: a multimedia experiment for teachers, with the purpose of helping their students truly understand and absorb the events of September 11, 2001. Also, there were no smartphones on 9/11/2001, it helps with immersion :)
I get that, but even in schools you'd need a monitor at this at all times. Overall it means you limit the audience to a fraction of its potential for what is essentially a gimmick that is not part of the story to be taught (and it's clearly intended to teach). You could easily simulate TV screens on a static page, which is also how most people would have experienced this. I doubt the fraction of people following the…
It also requires an internet connection. Which also limits the audience.
Obviously this material is not available for everyone. But I'm glad the author created it in a form as it is.
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#10I wish it wasn't MacOS 9 - A far more relevant UI for this would have been 9x or 2000. And a lot easier to use, too.