[BNM] [OT] Conspiracy solved

[Dave Phelan]

On 5/17/06, Josh Russell <joshbnm at gmail.com> wrote:
> looking back at this, we were mostly concerned with the ability for
> the internet to provide us with news during the event...
> http://brightonnewmedia.org/pipermail/bnmlist/2001-September/date.html
> funny that was our first thought, "i hope the internet still works!" :)

I was stuck in a windowless comms room in Germany at the time. This
list (and a few IRC chats) were the only info sources I could get to,
even with a fast backbone connection.

Most news sites (BBC and CNN) were collapsing, at least from my
perspective. Sky news stayed up.

Dave Ph
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