{"id":803,"date":"2011-09-11T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:53:47","slug":"september-11th-2001-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/803\/september-11th-2001-screenshots","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo News Screenshots from 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/sept11\/wtc_screenshot_1_large.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/sept11\/wtc_screenshot_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Benj Edwards - World Trade Center September 11th 2001 Yahoo News Screenshot\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The Full Coverage page of Yahoo News on 9\/11\/2001 at 2:03 PM EDT.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/sept11\/wtc_screenshot_2_large.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/sept11\/wtc_screenshot_2_small.jpg\" alt=\"Benj Edwards - World Trade Center September 11th 2001 Yahoo News Screenshot\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A special terrorism page of Yahoo news on 9\/11\/2001 at 2:03 PM EDT.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I took these screenshots of the Yahoo News website ten years ago today &#8212; on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001.  I had recently driven home from the campus of NC State University, which I attended at the time, and checked online for more details about the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The headlines seen here, with their blunt assessment of the dramatic and unprecedented events that unfolded earlier that morning, were very hard to mentally grasp.  I felt like I was witnessing a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie made horribly real.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I took these screenshots.  I thought I&#8217;d never believe myself, in recounting the events of that day, if I didn&#8217;t grab some evidence of what it was like to witness it at the time.  I&#8217;m glad I did.  I also filled four VHS tapes with TV news coverage of the event so I could show my future children what it was like.  I&#8217;m not sure I will be able to summon the courage to watch them for quite some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Full Coverage page of Yahoo News on 9\/11\/2001 at 2:03 PM EDT. A special terrorism page of Yahoo news on 9\/11\/2001 at 2:03 PM EDT. I took these screenshots of the Yahoo News website ten years ago today &#8212; on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001. I had recently driven home from the campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,10],"tags":[1639,1634,83,1638,617,1635,1637,970,1636],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-computers","tag-1639","tag-9-11","tag-anniversaries","tag-netscape","tag-screenshot","tag-september-11th","tag-windows-98","tag-yahoo","tag-yahoo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}