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This is what CNN looked like on 9/11: http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg All the major sites switched to something like this when t
by aiyodev 9y ago
This is what CNN looked like on 9/11:
http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg
All the major sites switched to something like this when the internet slowed to a halt. I assume they've always had a minimal version ready in case something like it happens again.
- gravypod 9y agoI'd pay $5/month for a reputable news site to provide this all year long.
- knz 9y agohttp://www.npr.org http://www.npr.org ? It's not text only but it's considerably more minimal than most news websites, loads almost instantly, doesn't have auto play content, and is considered a reputable source. The BBC used to be similar but their international website is awful now (slow to load, more adverts, and less emphasis on actual news).
- mallaidh 9y agoIt's text-only when you use http://thin.npr.org http://thin.npr.org
- ricardobeat 9y agoFunny how the main site loaded much faster than this version for me. Wonder if it does reverse with a 2G connection.
- wyldfire 9y agoThe full npr.org provides transcripts for many or all of their stories. This site leads me to stories that only contain bylines and no other content. Seems like a bug to not include at least a link to the audio or the transcript.
- swrobel 9y agoSurprisingly long load times...
- heyoni 9y agoJust use ublock origin in advanced mode and disable third party everything. Most sites look completely broken until you find and enable their one cdn (and only that!), meanwhile 100 other requests stay blocked. Save those rules as you go and it's easy browsing from then on!
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- pavel_lishin 9y agoIf you send me $5/month, I'll come over and turn Javascript off in your browser.
- chrissnell 9y agoI was working at AOL Time Warner on 9/11 and our team helped out the CNN team to keep that site online. It was a crazy experience. I recall that Sun Microsystems had provisioned a huge datacenter room full of gear for another AOL project as a sort of "try before you buy" deal. We spent the afternoon kickstarting those machines and bootstrapping them as CNN content servers. It was a huge struggle just to keep everything online, given the massive surge in traffic that we were seeing. America had never seen an event like this since Pearl Harbor and most people didn't know what to do besides standing in front of a TV or--if you were at work--refreshing CNN all day. The idea of infra capacity to handle a news event of this magnitude wasn't something that had even been considered prior to 9/11.
- tjr 9y agoWell thank you. I was in a college computer lab reading CNN's web page.