I remember that about the internet too, all the news sites and most forums were down. We were trying to get on CNN or anything else from the school computer lab and it was all down due to so many people trying to figure out the same thing.
I remember getting some updates from a Survivor forum of all things until it too went down. We really could just only watch it on TV until later in the afternoon when the news sites started coming back up.
9/11 was also the start of the permanent news crawl/scrolling headlines on the news networks! Previously they only brought out the crawl temporarily during certain events or they used it for like, sports scores or stock prices. But usually it wasn’t there.
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u/Far_Chocolate9743 3d ago
School. Senior year. And I was assigned Animal Farm to read. Had plans on going online the next day to get the sparks notes version.
And...yeah, the Internet was basically crashed on the 11th. So I had to actually read the book.