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Do I understand correctly that Europeans weren't able to access most US websites? "OK, you guys are now my sole source for info on this - all European traffic
by I_am_tiberius 4y ago
Do I understand correctly that Europeans weren't able to access most US websites?
"OK, you guys are now my sole source for info on this - all European traffic goes through mae east and now I can't get squat out of the US.. "
- wanderingstan 4y agoA lot of websites went down under the extreme load of everyone clicking “refresh” over and over. I was at the office and people would call out when they got a news site to load. I clearly recall that cnn.com went to being text-only.
- netsharc 4y agoI was in Europe, and I knew it was middle of the night in Australia, the Australian news websites were loading, it was a static picture of the 2 towers with smoke billowing out of them...
- marginalia_nu 4y agoNews sites maybe? I remember spending most of that day online.
- cachvico 4y agoBear in mind that all news channels were broadcasting constantly at least - would still be pretty rare at the time to find a household without a single TV.
- petesergeant 4y agoThis doesn’t match my memory. I was in the UK, at work, and I don’t remember any connectivity issues at all
- xeromal 4y agoEverything was DDOSed and nothing was really built to scale in those days besides the big guys like google.
- soneil 4y agoIronically, my strongest memory of 9/11 (from the UK) was watching the BBC and relaying blow-by-blow, over IRC, to friends in the US who were already in the office. It wasn't a connectivity issue from my memory, it was most major news sites being completely flattened.