IP: Founder of Akamai among those on downed flight

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date:         Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:00:52 EDT
>From: Rich Wiggins <wiggins@msu.edu>
>Subject:      Founder of Akamai among those on downed flight
>To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
>
>
>The New York Times reports that one of the founders of Akamai
>was on one of the hijacked flights:
>
>  Akamai Technologies, an Internet services company based in Cambridge,
>  Mass., said a technology billionaire, a founder of the company and
>  its chief technology officer, Daniel C. Lewin, was on board the
>  same plane. His wife and two sons were not traveling with him.
>
>  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12PASS.html
>
>A very sad irony.  Right now, effective caching and multicasting
>are what the Internet needs, as millions of people flock to
>nytimes.com and other leading newspaper and media sites worldwide.
>
>For a while yesterday, Google's site urged people to turn on the
>television instead of searching for news on the Internet.  This
>wise counsel was later replaced; Google offered direct links to
>major sites (including the Times) and cached copies of major articles.
>
>/rich



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