The Internet Archive has been amassing a collection of broadcast material from September 11, 2001 for years: Link, and there's more web archive material here.
Today, CNN offers free access to a broadband replay of the network's coverage from that day, in real time, as it happened: Link. Access to CNN's "Pipeline" service normally requires paid membership, but that is not the case with today's webcast.
And BoingBoing's blog archives for the month of September, 2001 are here.
Here's the very first post as the attacks happened, from Cory:
6:15AM in San Francisco: I fire up a browser and start looking at blogs and such. Then I happen on this entry, from my friend Teresa in New York:
I just climbed back down from my Brooklyn rooftop. An airplane has flown into the World Trade Towers. There's thick black smoke billowing out of several floors of both towers.
Let me pause for a moment to say with all the lucidity I can muster that it is the strangest sight I have ever seen in my life.
I can hear the sirens of multiple emergency vehicles, 360 degrees around. There were people on other rooftops in my neighborhood, some of them talking on their cellphones. Down in the street below me a workman was shouting in some language other than English for the rest of his work crew to come out of the house they're renovating and see what's happening. I couldn't make out a word of it, but there was no mistaking the sense.
Patrick called from the office. He says from where I'm standing I can't see the big hole in the side of one tower.
So off I go to the usual suspects: CNN, Yahoo, BBC, CBC — and they're all so busy with people doing what I'm doing, they refuse to load. The Internet's major news sites have been shut down by a massive flood of traffic as everyone in the world calls and emails everyone else in the world to tell them the news. God, this feels so apocalyptic. Five people have just called me to tell me about this, and more — all flights in the US have been grounded, the Pentagon's been hit, the flights were hijacked commercial airliners… Holy crap. Link Discuss
