Comments on: Two years ago

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I usually set my alarm so that it beeps at me to wake me, but for some reason I hadn’t slid the thing on my alarm clock far enough over so instead of beeping it turned the radio on.

When I woke up I didn’t know what they were talking about at all, but I clearly heard them say that all the planes in the US had been grounded. Then the thought goes through my head, “Mark, that’s not normal.”
I got up and turned the TV on and then just stood there and stared at it forever – at which point enters the feelings of unreality – like this is more like a movie than reality.

By: Eivind Lie Nitter

Eivind Lie Nitter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As I live in Norway, the time was about 4 pm here when it happened. So I first heard of it when I came to work after school that day.

At first I didn’t really realize how bad it was, but it didn’t take so long to understand after reading a couple of news web pages..

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I saw some smoke walking to the subway. Some guy on the street mentioned the towers. Then going across the manhattan bridge, saw them both smoking. I stupidly thought it was a fire that had somehow sprouted in both of them. Someone on the train mentioned plane crash (I was thinking along the lines of a Cessna), but most people (me included) seemed just worried and sort of in awe of it. Then by the time I got to work, people were freaking out (possibly due to our proximity to the empire state building), and I couldn’t go up and just start working. I still didn’t really know what was going on until one of my coworkers told me about it in the lobby.

By: tim jackson

tim jackson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Was out on the piss with some mates in london and saw it on the news… the state i was in just made me laugh and carry on in my own little dream world…

couldn’t believe it the next morning!

By: Gerv

Gerv — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I found out the same way as Jesse – I was interning at mozilla.org at the time, and I woke up and immediately logged on to IRC.

Gerv

By: Adrian Rossouw

Adrian Rossouw — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was just sitting around online, when people started sending me joke jpegs. I honestly heard the jokes before i heard the news. I was sent a .jpg with the WTC with a plane flying through it , overlayed by the HUD from counter-strike with the words ‘terrorists win’ in the middle of the screen.

That’s an ode to the internet I think. Also , shortly after that .. all my bandwidth imploded , as our network operations center in new york (i am south african) was right underneath the WTC and got demolished in the blast.