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Wednesday, September 12, 2001
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/11/010911hnattacknetworks.xml Networks hit, but telecom stays operational By Nancy Weil BOSTON -- BOSTON (09/12/2001) - Within moments after word went out on television and by word of mouth that airplanes had slammed into the World Trade Center towers in New York on Tuesday morning, telephone communication ground to a standstill along the upper Eastern Seaboard and Internet traffic snarled major news Web sites. By late afternoon however, it was clear that although communication had been disrupted, uncounted lives lost, and financial markets closed, the nation's telecommunication infrastructure was essentially operational....
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