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WNYC's full 14-hour broadcast from 9/11

WNYC has a 14-hour recording of their reporting on 9/11 to listen to if you would like to hear how the day unfolded to radio listeners.

The audio above is a recording of what WNYC broadcast throughout the day on September 11, 2001, beginning shortly after the first plane struck the World Trade Center. It includes the first eyewitness account of the attacks recorded and broadcast that day.

WNYC's radio tower was located at the top of the World Trade Center and broadcast was cut on FM wavelengths after the building was attacked. However, WNYC was still broadcasting on their AM channel which you can hear in the recording.

EDIT: If you want, you can also check out CBS' 1010WINS news broadcast from that morning.

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Geocities still exists as a 652GB torrent file

This makes me happy. I guess I never followed up on my own about what was going on with the whole GeoCities shutdown back in 2009. I remember there being quite a big collaborative effort to save all the data on GeoCities in order to preserve its history. I was all for it. GeoCities was the birthplace of the personal homepage. It made personal webpages attainable and contributed in large part to the spread of animated GIFs and an aesthetic that has recently made a big comeback with vaporwave.

Anyway, if you want to download the 652GB file, you can do so freely via The Pirate Bay.
Or, if you're like me, you can browse the GeoCities archive online.

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