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 +] [!]

  • bloopernova@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    We were asleep. Phone (landline!) kept ringing, finally answered it to hear a friend shouting at us to turn on the TV. I think that was just after the second plane hit.

    Same friend was calling everyone they knew saying they heard that every plane was remote controlled and that there would be “hundreds” more attacks. That was a very, very confusing time.