Real-time reaction to the 9/11 attacks on MetaFilter, one of the web's earliest public blogs

That's something to read...

I still remember little me coming home after school in France; my brother was watching the TV and explaining what happened. I just responded with "ok" like it was nothing

Palestinians dancing in the street, celebrating. Regardless of your world view, cheering this is barbaric.

Followed by (CW: Racist call to violence):

Is so ironic, but was a very widespread sentiment at the time. I have family who are Muslim, and the reaction of people in the US was more frightening than the event itself. Also with family from Mexico, and that's also when anti-immigrant/pro-border hysteria escalated to hysterical levels, which have never simmered down.

The biggest tragedy is the way we responded to the attacks. In a way, we pissed on the graves of everyone who died by letting the terrorists win. It worked because we let it.

I was an admin at the time and I had to implore people to not stream stuff on the web (It was a CS lab so we had better internet thatn most at the time) and that we had a tv setup in one of the rooms. Eventually I was asking people to stay home or go home before I finally did and watched tv all night long.

This is so interesting to read through. Thanks for posting!