Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

Medi­ate has a slideshow of screen-grabs of var­i­ous sites dur­ing the attacks of 9/11. The Inter­net news cycle was much dif­fer­ent back then and these screen-grabs show the tremen­dous amount of strain placed on the web servers as peo­ple tried to fol­low the events. 9/11 Screen­grabs | | Mediaite.

Eight years ago today ter­ror­ist hijacked com­mer­cial air­lin­ers and crashed them into the World Trade Cen­terand the Pen­ta­gon while another was poised for Wash­ing­ton. Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001 sud­denly became a date embla­zoned in the minds of Amer­i­cans. A hor­rific event that we watched unfold before the cam­eras of the 24 hour news cycle. I was in High School then. […]