The Internet Archive Remembers 9/11 Ten Years On
It is a day that is etched and scarred into most of the worlds memory, the attack of September 11, 2001 is a defining moment in history where everyone remembers what they were doing when they heard the news.
Relive September 11 with the internet archive
There have been many films and documentaries made about the attacks that have now reached their tenth anniversary. But there is something available on the web that TV cannot offer, a complete archive of the hours leading up to and after the attack.
The Internet Archive have a unique collection of over 3,000 hours of footage from major TV networks, showing broadcasts from just before and for the week following the incident. Networks include ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, and NBC, talking to CNN The group’s founder Brewster Kahle said, “Understanding 9/11,” is designed to help researchers, historians and regular citizens put the attacks in context a decade later.
“We’re hoping that by bringing the original material back on line, it allows us to refocus and maybe come up with a different narrative now than maybe we did then.”
The Internet Archive began in 1996 with the enormous mission to chronicle every page from all websites. In 2000, the group started collecting TV broadcasts and TV footage from the US, UK, Russia, China, Japan, Iraq, France and Mexico, calling it “historically underappreciated, despite its tremendous importance.”
When 9/11 occured the group wanted to chronicle the events, said the site, “When the events of September 11, 2001 occurred, we, like most Americans, urgently wanted international perspectives on the United States. Stunned by the attacks, we tried to figure out what we could do to help.”
Now that the tenth anniversary has arrived, the group have republishished the page which will be available for as long as the archive exists.
Reliving the events from 2001, is an eerie experience. The site has video logs showing the usual news shows, many will were having light hearted moments before the first plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:46 am and the stunned moments and days that followed.
For many the days events may be too painful to revisit, but it is a defining moment in history that, thanks to the internet has been fully chronicled and can be studies by the generation that lived it and the ones to whom it is just an event in history.
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That incident should never be forgotten and should always be remembered. We should not focus on the death bugs instead to the heroes that arises.