Internet traffic on Sept. 11
Has anyone seen statistics on Internet traffic on Sept. 11 and 12? If so, where? I noticed that the major news websites were really "slow" on Sept. 11. I also heard the CEO of Earthlink on NPR talk about huge spikes in traffic to his member sites. He also mentioned that e-mail use was down, and the use of synchronous chat was up. I'm teaching a CMC class and would love to talk about it in class. Ryan J. Burns, Ph.D. rburns1@tulane.edu Visiting Instructor of Media Studies Department of Communication Tulane University
While this doesn't speak for the entire Internet, it is probably quite representative. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/13/154222&mode=thread And if you're interested in CMC but don't read Slashdot, you probably should visit the link anyway. David Wiley Assistant Professor Instructional Technology Utah State University -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Ryan J. Burns Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 9:14 AM To: Air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Internet traffic on Sept. 11 Has anyone seen statistics on Internet traffic on Sept. 11 and 12? If so, where? I noticed that the major news websites were really "slow" on Sept. 11. I also heard the CEO of Earthlink on NPR talk about huge spikes in traffic to his member sites. He also mentioned that e-mail use was down, and the use of synchronous chat was up. I'm teaching a CMC class and would love to talk about it in class. Ryan J. Burns, Ph.D. rburns1@tulane.edu Visiting Instructor of Media Studies Department of Communication Tulane University _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l
While I don't know about Internet traffic, there's a report up now, in PDF format, at http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=45 that gives information from our tracking surveys last week based on questions concerning Internet use during and after the attacks in NYC and DC. Sj At 10:14 AM -0500 9/17/01, Ryan J. Burns wrote:
Has anyone seen statistics on Internet traffic on Sept. 11 and 12? If so, where? I noticed that the major news websites were really "slow" on Sept. 11. I also heard the CEO of Earthlink on NPR talk about huge spikes in traffic to his member sites. He also mentioned that e-mail use was down, and the use of synchronous chat was up. I'm teaching a CMC class and would love to talk about it in class.
Ryan J. Burns, Ph.D. rburns1@tulane.edu Visiting Instructor of Media Studies Department of Communication Tulane University
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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)
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