alt Hacker Newscnn email alert was how I learned that 9/11 was happening. love or hate the man and the news outlet, but you have to admit that they ushered in the news era of the internet.
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7373737373 • yesterday at 4:41 PM
Here he is as 9/11 happened: https://youtu.be/yD5ZSEzriLI?t=1435
macintux • yesterday at 6:17 PM
I remember waking up in the middle of the night for some reason, turning on CNN, and finding out we had invaded Panama.
Growing up, TV stations shut off around midnight. Quite the sea change.
dexterdog • yesterday at 4:41 PM
And then you couldn't get to their home page because they got hammered by traffic. They eventually slimmed the page down to just the main story and you could get it to load eventually.
CNN was how we watched Desert Storm in '91