[thechat] World Trade Fires - News Sites

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Tue Sep 11 13:35:22 CDT 2001


Norman Bunn wrote on 11/9/01 7:11 pm

>www.google.com/currentevents
>
>has some cached pages that are available

After the initial peak, usage has dropped - once the news
sites get overloaded, a lot of people switch to old media.

Report on how they all coped
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1538000/1538149.stm

>The London Internet Exchange - where most data to and from the UK is 
>routed - said overall internet traffic was down 10% on a normal Tuesday 
>afternoon in Britain. 

Cheers
Martin

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