We will never forget! Remembering 9/11

[AdamK47]

It's amazing. I never had the Internet until 2003. Although I was on it at the library, school and a friends house. I bet a majority of all those posts were made with dial-up. Aww, the wonderful sound of QAM in the morning.

Broadband was quite prevalent in 2001. 2Mb to 5Mb connections were common in cities and surrounding suburbs. From 1995 to 2000 I had my own dedicated phone line for dial-up though. I can't imagine not having a home Internet connection until 2003. That would just be crazy.

It's amazing just how hammered the big news sites were when all of this unfolded. I remember waiting up to 10 minutes just for a single page to finish loading.

 

[Kaido]

The original 9/11 thread is an interesting read. Eli nailed it on the head with the last post too:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=30439267&postcount=1257

Wow thanks for linking that, it was before my join date. Interesting reading the comments from a historical perspective:

this could lead to a war.

I hope this is not a start of something REALLY big... GULP!

Probably Bin Laden is behind this...

Still get that eerie, sickening feeling reading through it page by page though. You can still feel the gravity of the event...people can be real monsters sometimes.

 

[darkewaffle]

lol half of us were in 8th grade it seems. I was in geography or social studies class, whatever they called it. There was an announcement or they turned on CNN I think to make us aware of it but for the most part the day just continued normally.

 

[shortylickens]

Shorty was graduating from C-School in Great Lakes. Was supposed to transfer out that day. Base got locked down. We posted guards all over the place with no experience and no tools. Got to leave base 2 days later but only because I was driving, not flying.

 

[UnklSnappy]

Last known Ground Zero rescue dog returns to NYC

 

[John Connor]

Last known Ground Zero rescue dog returns to NYC

:'(

 

[clamum]

I was at work. I think it was my boss who came into the room I was in and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I remember him saying "We're going to war."

A little later my buddy came and picked me up as usual to go to class at the community college and I remember the TVs in the hallways were playing news footage of the events. Later that afternoon I was in the car with my mom, heading home from town, and there was a gas station about a half mile from our house. It had a huge line of cars all waiting to fill up.

 

[IronWing]

Last known Ground Zero rescue dog returns to NYC

Sixteen years is a really good run for a dog that size.

 

[kt]

I was watching the coverage on TV at home while waiting for a co-worker to pick me up to carpool into work. I just remember how eerie that drive to work was as everyone had that "Are you hearing what I am hearing on the radio?" look of shock. We got to work and were told to go home. Our office building is right across from the LAX airport. At that point, all the planes have already been grounded. It was extra weird because most domestic flights arriving at LAX airport approach the landing strip right over our office building so we are used to the noise but that morning it was super quiet. Took us about an hour to get out of the area because the exit for office building parking garage feeds right into the one of the main streets entering the LAX airport.

 

[Mayne]

Was watching tv in my apartment while it all unfolded. Crazy stuff. Phoned my sister to tell her to turn the tv on. Spent the rest of the day watching it all happen.

Very sad day indeed.

 

[Arcadio]

I remember the last time I saw the Twin Towers: Sunday September 9, 2001. Around 6:30 pm. I was in the back seat of a friend's car coming back from a trip upstate. We were driving through the George Washington Bridge and I stared at the Twin Towers for a few seconds.

 

[John Connor]

You knew it was bad when you can call your cousin and say turn on the TV shit is going down and he says, "what channel?" ANY CHANNEL!

 

[stargazr]

Well I was way past 8th grade back then. At work at a tool company in eastern PA, on morning break outside at a picnic table with co-workers. Someone mentioned a plane hit the Trade Center. I pictured a small Cessna or something, an accident. But the guy that told us already realized it was a terror attack in retrospect.

We worked the rest of the day, barely able to hear the radio. By the time the Pentagon was targeted, and the plane went down I was thoroughly confused.

And one thing that I will always remember is it was such a perfect beautiful day, weather wise. NYC had the same weather.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

5th grade. I remember them showing it on the TV in class for a while but then they turned it off. I really didn't understand the magnitude of it at the time. I remember being annoying that the after school cartoons weren't on for like 2 weeks.

 

[Geekbabe]

My son confirms he was in 8th grade, he remembers school being evacuated & being sent home early. He also remembers being puzzled " why would somebody do this? "

 

[MongGrel]

Was 39 and working at Honeywell in Space & Defense.

We had a dining room in Plant 4 with a big screen and a cafeteria.

Was morning break and was walking through and they usually had CNN or MSNBC on in there, I just remember walking through and saw the video of the first jet hit, they were actually announcing on the newscasts it was a Cessna I believe, why many people thought that.

Went into the cafeteria and was a hot female engineer I barely knew heading in there, I actually blurted out something along the lines "OMG come look at this !" and almost pulled her in there. We were both stunned at the replay, I remember saying then, "That was not a Cessna".

 

[Humpy]

Dear Penthouse,

Went into the cafeteria and was a hot female engineer I barely knew heading in there, I actually blurted out something along the lines "OMG come look at this !" and almost pulled her in there. We were both stunned at the replay, I remember saying then, "That was not a Cessna".

 

[MongGrel]

9/11 rescue dog celebrates 16th birthday in New York City



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...cue-dog-16th-birthday-new-york-city/72055390/

 

[HeXen]

At work about to flag traffic for some ATT guys. I then flagged said traffic.

 

[Ketchup]

Senior year of college. Ran into my roommate between classes and he told me about it. Had high-speed Internet in the dorm (no TV), so we went back to the room and actually saw the 2nd tower do down.

I don't constantly think about it, no. But I don't think I will ever have a September 11th go by that I don't think about it.

We do tell the kids about it, and of course they talk about it at school on the Sept 11ths, but it is hard to relay the feeling of seeing it. Just as it is hard for those who were there to relay to those of us who merely saw it.

 

[destrekor]

9/11 rescue dog celebrates 16th birthday in New York City



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...cue-dog-16th-birthday-new-york-city/72055390/

dawwww

I had a pooch reach 17, she was still going hard... running laps (fewer in the later years) and jumping out of [parked] car windows chasing who knows what (and making a bloody mess of her chin in the process, lol - Day 1 of vacation... OMG is our dog gonna die, or has he broken her jaw?).

Dogs that live that long are phenomenal beasts. So much love that just lasts so long. I had a dog from when I was 1 until I was 18. That dog was a furry sister.


I already have the feels for that dog's owner. Such a storied life, such a long life... she won't many years left, that's for sure. Sad she's the only rescue dog left from that time, it's not uncommon for dogs to live long years but it just depends on the breed/mix, and most rescue pooches are larger breeds who rarely make the teens.

 

[AdamK47]

I heard someone say on NPR today that 25% of Americans were too young or not even born yet to remember that day. It still seems fresh in my memory despite it being 14 years ago.

 

[*kjm]

I really hope we stop that, that is not the place for the US anymore. It shouldn't have ever been, but sometimes it does help us in the end. I can't really think of how any of the efforts in the Middle East have remotely helped us. Bomb the hell out of them after they do something to us, but let it boil enough over there, they'll be at each others throats in no time. Iran hates ISIS, and Saudi Arabia -- while under the same principal Islamic sect as ISIS -- also wants nothing to do with them, especially because ISIS/ISIL/themfucks want Saudi land.

It don't work that way in the real world believe me...... and to cap it off the Iran deal went through on 9/11!

http://www.newstalk1130.com/media/p...-MarkBelling/mark-belling-hr-1-pt-2-26345510/

No matter what side you are on listen all the way through it's an eye opener! It's going to get bad real quick.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was in grade 10, crazy to think it's already been 14 years. I was in class and someone mentioned that a plane hit the world trade center. I did not know what that was, nor figured it was a huge plane, was thinking like a Cesna or something, pilot error or some whack job suicidle person, bunch of broken windows, maybe a few deaths or hurt but not more than that. At lunch some people would go home so after lunch more people were talking about it. At this point I was kinda frantic, I just wanted to know more, because it sounded more serious. As soon as I got home I put it on the news, well, any channel I put it on it was the news. It just felt so surreal to watch what had happened.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just wanted to post a reminder that a prolific AT Hot Deals poster, HawkeyeNJ , who apparently worked in NYC, never posted again after the 9/11 attacks. Speculation was that he was among the casualties, but nothing was ever proven concretely. RIP Buddy!