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500,000 9/11 pager messages online
Wikileaks has done something extraordinary. “A few minutes after the first hijacked airplane slammed into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, text pager services in New York and Washington DC lit up with thousands of messages from people trying to contact loved ones,” says ninemsn . “While internet servers and cell phone networks crashed across New York City, text pagers continued to function.” Yesterday, “An archive containing the contents of more than half a million pager messages sent on 11 September 2001 was published yesterday by the internet site Wikileaks,” says The Independent .
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