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September 11, 2001 at 5:00 am #16057BigBlueBall NewsMember
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September 11, 2001
People in New York City and around the globe turned to the Internet Tuesday to communicate with their families and to grasp the horrific sequence of terrorist attacks that transformed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon into disaster zones.
Unable to connect via wireless and landline phones, many New Yorkers posted messages on Web sites, signed onto instant chat services and used e-mail to contact loved ones.
“There is no phone service in or out of Manhattan, so e-mail is the way to communicate. We are OK,” read one e-mail message a worker in New YorkŒs Equitable building sent to friends and relatives.
Instant messaging services from Yahoo and America Online experienced increased demand as people sought to contact friends and family. A Yahoo spokesperson said its network has experienced “an unprecedented increase in traffic” and has added more servers to handle the load. AOL said that it had seen “small spike” in instant chat usage.
“The WTC is just 10 blocks above and we all saw EVERYTHING happen as it unfolded,” wrote another New York City worker. “We are all in shock. It is hard to work. We are also trapped into the city we can not get home.” [Discuss]
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