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...posted it, and we came. From that day forward traffic to info.cern.ch rose exponentially, from 10 hits a day to 100 to 1,000 and beyond. Berners-Lee had no idea that he had fired the first shot in a revolution that would bring us home pages, search engines, Beanie Baby auctions and the dotcom bust, but he knew that something special had happened. "Of all the browsers people wrote," Berners-Lee remembers, "and all the servers they put up, very few of them were done because a manager asked for them. They were done because somebody read...
...earthquake. Our offices on the top floors of 1 World Trade Center (the north tower) went dark. No one knew what had happened, but within minutes the emergency lights kicked on and our 700 employees at Cantor Fitzgerald calmly headed for the stairs. The stairway quickly became a traffic jam as 20,000 workers on lower floors were also evacuating that cold February day, but the Cantor folks didn't panic. Some of them lashed their ties and belts to the wheelchairs of handicapped people and carried them down the 105 flights of stairs. Others helped those who were unable...
What Americans had in common that day was that we stopped using the phone for a few minutes: according to AT&T, phone traffic dropped 60% from 10 a.m. to 10:05 a.m. P.T. In appliance stores and offices and diners, we dropped everything and watched as nine blacks, two whites and one Hispanic rendered their verdict: Orenthal James Simpson was not guilty of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. On the streets of African-American neighborhoods and the campuses of black colleges, we high-fived total strangers in jubilation. In white...
...William Mitchell quickly spread the vehicles among the berms and along the riverfront. The S.A.W. and two 40-Bravo heavy machine gunners took positions at the end of the bridge, pointing into town. But Charlie Rock has been driving all night through the desert, there's traffic on the horizon, and it's only a few minutes before the men are lying in the sun and "Rock Doc", the medic Track, is filling the air with...
...Terriers' fifth goal came on the power play. McConnell won a draw in the Harvard zone back to defenseman Bryan Miller, whose slap shot made its way through traffic in front and passed unseen between Grumet-Morris's legs. It came a mere eight seconds after the power play began and was to be followed in short order by another BU goal...