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.
> cnn.com wouldn't load because it was being ddosed by all of the requests
Slashdot was one of the few sites that was able to stay up during that time, and it was struggling. Later in the day, CNN ripped out all their HTML, and put up a super simple design to optimize for staying up
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.
