How the web looked on 9/11
The Browser blog from the Detroit Free Press takes a look back at the web on September 11, 2001 (along with an included gallery of homepages of major news websites).
Crises make us crave the web. Some would argue 9/11 was the crisis that defined the web. Plagues and protests, hurricanes and tsunamis, elections and defeats, roadside bombings and campus shootings. I remember being glued to Virginia Tech's website throughout the 2007 massacre. It's become a macabre part of my PR repertoire, observing web infrastructure and social media patterns during times of tragedy. I pray to whatever God that exists that I never again to need the web to capture the cold, harsh realities of our interconnected world. But if I do, then my next prayers would be life over death and 99.999% uptime.
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