The World in a List

On September 11th, 2001, I responded the only way I knew how — by writing code.

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My first thought was to assure everyone I knew that my wife and I were fine. The next was to assure myself that our friends were okay too.

This was 10:30 a.m. on September 11, after the north tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. The phones were overloaded, and we had…