Slashdot was the only news site I could get to. I woke up on the west coast and saw weird stuff on mailing list messages like "NYC Readers please donate blood" but couldn't figure out what was going on until I went to Slashdot (I don't have a TV...)
Whereas I was at the time just arrived on the greek island of Sifnos, booked into the hotel room and zapping through the TV to look for watchable channels. So I got hooked at the picture of the burning first WTC tower and trying to make sense of the commentary in the off. Then a few minutes later I saw the second plane coming in from the right side of the TV screen and hitting the second tower. It took a while for the commentors to actually notice the event and then the speculation started if this was an actual terrorist attack.
9/11 (Score:0)
Slashdot was the only news site I could get to. I woke up on the west coast and saw weird stuff on mailing list messages like "NYC Readers please donate blood" but couldn't figure out what was going on until I went to Slashdot (I don't have a TV...)
Re:9/11 (Score:2)
Whereas I was at the time just arrived on the greek island of Sifnos, booked into the hotel room and zapping through the TV to look for watchable channels. So I got hooked at the picture of the burning first WTC tower and trying to make sense of the commentary in the off. Then a few minutes later I saw the second plane coming in from the right side of the TV screen and hitting the second tower. It took a while for the commentors to actually notice the event and then the speculation started if this was an actual terrorist attack.