Real-time reaction to the 9/11 attacks on MetaFilter, one of the web's earliest public blogs - eviltoast
Plane crashes in to the word trade center.
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Plane crashes in to the word trade center. Apologies for not linking to anything besides the main CNN page but there are no full stories on this yet. The plane crashed into the building about six...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4850144

Two comments in particular stand out:

This is going to be a big turning point in the history and character of this country, I think. posted by Doug at 8:51 AM on September 11, 2001 [207 favorites +] [!]

my greatest fear is how our government is going to respond. more erosion of freedom in the name of security. mark my words. posted by rebeccablood at 12:10 PM on September 11, 2001 [311 favorites +] [!]

  • TheColonel@reddthat.com
    12·
    1 year ago

    Jesus. I remember thinking some of this but it was much hazier and confusing. Amazing that they could actually distill and post those ideas at that time.

    It was such a WTF sort of experience. I don’t recall knowing what to do much less think about it but I wasn’t even 20 yet at the time.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I thought only one thing after it was apparent that we were under attack, “we’re going to war”. I was a reservist at the time and was pretty sure that meant I was going to war.