Network demand seems to be the best answer. There were key network switches and fibre that was located at those sites which was destroyed during the events. I

Network demand seems to be the best answer. There were key network switches and fibre that was located at those sites which was destroyed during the events. I remember nothing was working or loading. News sites went to plain text with minimal content during this period. The book "The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11" appears to deal with this fairly well: https://www.nap.edu/read/10569/chapter/4 https://www.nap.edu/read/10569/chapter/4 This was the era where a major computer consultant (IBM) failed to provision for the Olympics: https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/09/09/216607/index.htm https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...