9/11 At Apolyton

[Barley]

Im interested to read some of the treads relating to 9/11. Ive used the search function and dont seem to be able to find what im looking for.

My main interest was to see how the various stories and breaking news unfolded throught the day her at poly.

Does anyone have any links to the main threads that were started that day? Who sent the first post etc.

[MrBaggins]

I remember watching the planes hit the WTC from the balcony at work.

The news sites were all down. The cellphone nets were down. Phones were spotty.

Apolyton Off topic was, right after the attack, one of the viable chat/news environments.

That was a weird day.

MrBaggins.

[SlowwHand]

The only day, in my memory, where the ACS family wasn't bickering.

[monkspider]

i have always wanted to look at those threads again but they seem to be lost.

[alva]

All (original) 9/11 threads are lost forever.....

[monkspider]

It's a shame that they weren't saved for their historical value. I imagine it would be interesting to people even fifty years from now to read what people were saying when this was unfolding.

[SlowwHand]

VERY true, MS.

[monkspider]

In all honesty, I imagine someone could make a pretty interesting book someday that featured excerpts from some of the threads on all the various historical events that have been covered at Apolyton. I think it would offer a truly unique first-person perspective to history, to see what conservatives, and socialists, and libertarians, and moderates thought about what was going on, as it unfolded. And God knows Apolyton has a pretty interesting cast of characters.

[Ozz]

Originally posted by monkspider
It's a shame that they weren't saved for their historical value. I imagine it would be interesting to people even fifty years from now to read what people were saying when this was unfolding.

I got a set of 1942 encycleodias and the views written
by the academics of that time on the current events
certainly aren't PC now.

[Felch]

No one saved them? That really is a historical tragedy.

First person accounts of events, especially from educated but otherwise normal people like the folks here are some of the most important sources for historians. They provide a perspective that can't be given by official documents, one from the common perpective.

[Sprayber]

Along these lines, I was watching a history channel show about the Smithsonian a few months ago in which they were talking about their vast collection of American recordings. In their recordings they had original recordings of the response from average people on the street about the attack on Perl Harbor. People were commisioned to go out in various cities and towns to get the reactions of the people they talked to. After 9-11, they commisioned a smiliar project in which the sites and sounds including impressions from people all over the country on the events of that morning. Both examples were powerful to listen to. Currently the Smithsonian is transferring all it's recordings from as far back as the early 1900's onto computer disks. They are having to work with the early means of sound recording and they fear that some of our history will be lost before those sounds can be captured.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/

http://www.historychannel.com/saveourhistory/

[DarkCloud]

The only day, in my memory, where the ACS family wasn't bickering.

I don't quite remember it that way- some people were trolling... but yes, for the most part 99% were being friendly.

All (original) 9/11 threads are lost forever.....

Dont worry, when I get home, I'll look in my archives- I think I saved Kaak's thread about the possible terrorist bomber and a few pages of the real thread- I'll try to upload the screenshots when I find them.

No one saved them? That really is a historical tragedy.

I remember that at least one poster was within a block of the collapse

[Boris Godunov]

I was about a mile away watching it from my office window. I have some pictures from my office I can post when I get home.

[Buck Birdseed]

I heard about it on Apolyton before anywhere else...

[MrBaggins]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I was about a mile away watching it from my office window. I have some pictures from my office I can post when I get home.

what street were you on?