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Originally Posted by AGDee
The net did slow to a crawl on 9/11. Sites like CNN were not accessible due to the huge traffic. I had a co-worker come to my desk and ask if I could get the local news radio station in from my cubicle because she saw on CNN that a plane hit the WTC but then CNN went down. I turned on the radio minutes before the second plane hit. That news was spread in most places very quickly. I imagine if you were sitting in a classroom, you wouldn't have heard until that class was over, back then. Now, with smartphones and wi-fi everywhere, you'd probably have heard it within 10 minutes.
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So...when all is said and done...do any of you folks are we better prepared to get big event news like that or are we still lagging?
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