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Internet use after terror attack

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One fascinating area of research (and anecdote) is how the Internet has been deployed in a variety of ways during and since the attack. Here's a collection of URLs on the topic. Thank you to people who forwarded them to me.

The last on, below, is slightly off-topic, but not completely unrelated, and I couldn't resist including it.
mark

How Americans Used the Internet After the Terror Attack
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=45

I.S.P.'s Curb Terrorist Postings and an Anti-Islamic Backlash
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17WEB.html

World Trade Center Search Yields Wireless Signals
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-7191650.html

A Test Like None Before for the Computer Wizards
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17WONK.html

Scouring the Internet in Search of the Tracks of Terrorists
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17CRYP.html

Internet surpasses its original goal
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17ECOM.html

"Help us build a Web archive of the September 11 attack"
http://webarchivist.org/
(for a web archive of election 2000, see
http://archive0.alexa.com/collections/e2k.html)

Slashdot: Handling the Loads
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/13/154222&mode=thread

Internet withstands attack on America
http://www.matrix.net/company/news/20010911_internet_withstands_attack_on_america.html

The Flame to End All Flames! (Humor)
http://users.gurulink.com/drk/humor/flame.html



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