I'm guessing that most of you reading Hacker News were actually kids on 9/11. At the time NYC had a new tech scene, but it was going through the worst of the dot.com crash. WWWAC was an early networking group in NYC that brought together coders and creatives to explore what was then the new medium of the web. While they had meetings their mailing list was a hub of the community. So by reading this list you can get a sense in real time what what was going on that day, the day after and the day after that.
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I'm guessing that most of you reading Hacker News were actually kids on 9/11. At the time NYC had a new tech scene, but it was going through the worst of the dot.com crash. WWWAC was an early networking group in NYC that brought together coders and creatives to explore what was then the new medium of the web. While they had meetings their mailing list was a hub of the community. So by reading this list you can get a sense in real time what what was going on that day, the day after and the day after that.