I got this from Communications-related Headlines for 9/17/01 At 12:08 PM -0400 9/17/01, Rachel Anderson wrote:
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INTERNET SURPASSES ITS ORIGINAL GOAL Issue: Internet Almost 40 years after it was conceived as a method of maintaining communications in the event of an attack on the United States, the Internet - long since broadened past that purpose - last week had the first real test of its original goal. According to firms that analyze Web site traffic and performance, while some sites slowed, the overall flow of data across the Internet was not degraded by either damage to critical fiber optic lines or the clogging of those lines by Web users. On Tuesday morning, pages at many of the most popular web sites took nearly three to four times the normal average to load, but over the next several hours, that average returned to normal. [SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Bob Tedsechi] (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17ECOM.html) (requires registration)