Having worked at a hospital through the '94 Northridge quake and the '92 riots, I think I have some idea what you mean.
I saw a presentation from the CNN web people about the technical things they did on 9/11/01 to keep people informed and some of the non-technical challenges they had too and it reminded me that sometimes being a web dork isn't trivial. The detail that always sticks is how they had to move servers over to the Cartoon Network starting around 3 pm Eastern because parents were shielding their children by sending them from the TV to the computer to look at the most innocuous thing they could.
I don't know which is eerier - "This Old Man" playing in the background, or that first, lone fire truck pulling up right under the tower. I get a mild anxiety attack every time I see the footage.
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Date: 2006-09-12 12:38 pm (UTC)There's nothing exactly like having worked at a news organization that week.
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Date: 2006-09-12 10:54 pm (UTC)I saw a presentation from the CNN web people about the technical things they did on 9/11/01 to keep people informed and some of the non-technical challenges they had too and it reminded me that sometimes being a web dork isn't trivial. The detail that always sticks is how they had to move servers over to the Cartoon Network starting around 3 pm Eastern because parents were shielding their children by sending them from the TV to the computer to look at the most innocuous thing they could.
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Date: 2006-09-13 12:27 am (UTC)