The 9/11 Real Time Archive is a synchronized digital history project designed to let people experience media from the September 11 attacks exactly as they unfolded in real time. It's always free, and never will have ads.
For the 25th anniversary, the 9/11 Real Time Archive will be "locked" on 9/10/2026 at 11 PM eastern, with visitors experiencing the event synced in real time, together and worldwide.
We will be live streaming a desktop on YouTube, featuring selected clips and sporadic commentary from me, Robbie Byrd, the creator of this project, at https://youtube.com/live/3Qp2Jaisrcs.
What's in the archive, most of it from the Internet Archive:
* 23 TV channels stitched together into one continuous 9-day broadcast (Sept 9–18, 2001) —
* 3,270 hours of video, or about 136 days if you played it end to end.
* 445 radio recordings: air traffic control, dispatch, first responders, each one tagged with the agency, aircraft, and people involved; a total of 85 hours of audio.
* 16 radio stations, totaling over 80 hours of continuous audio, from around the country you can actually tune in live.
* 41,061 flights and 3.85 million position points, rebuilt from raw radar data and BTS records.
* 447,417 pager messages from that week.
* 24,397 Usenet newsgroups and 38.2 million posts — basically the internet's own real-time reaction to the day, kept intact.
* 7,339 news timeline entries, sourced from the now-defunct historycommons.org.
* 188 Weather stations, forecasts and observations, representing the actual conditions that week.
Logged in users (using the Account icon on the Desktop) can create and share customized Playlists of media from the Archive, or chat with simulated "Buddies" who are experiencing the day in sync with you.
The 9/11 Real Time Archive is a synchronized digital history project designed to let people experience media from the September 11 attacks exactly as they unfolded in real time. It's always free, and never will have ads.
For the 25th anniversary, the 9/11 Real Time Archive will be "locked" on 9/10/2026 at 11 PM eastern, with visitors experiencing the event synced in real time, together and worldwide.
We will be live streaming a desktop on YouTube, featuring selected clips and sporadic commentary from me, Robbie Byrd, the creator of this project, at https://youtube.com/live/3Qp2Jaisrcs.
What's in the archive, most of it from the Internet Archive:
* 23 TV channels stitched together into one continuous 9-day broadcast (Sept 9–18, 2001) — * 3,270 hours of video, or about 136 days if you played it end to end. * 445 radio recordings: air traffic control, dispatch, first responders, each one tagged with the agency, aircraft, and people involved; a total of 85 hours of audio. * 16 radio stations, totaling over 80 hours of continuous audio, from around the country you can actually tune in live. * 41,061 flights and 3.85 million position points, rebuilt from raw radar data and BTS records. * 447,417 pager messages from that week. * 24,397 Usenet newsgroups and 38.2 million posts — basically the internet's own real-time reaction to the day, kept intact. * 7,339 news timeline entries, sourced from the now-defunct historycommons.org. * 188 Weather stations, forecasts and observations, representing the actual conditions that week.
Logged in users (using the Account icon on the Desktop) can create and share customized Playlists of media from the Archive, or chat with simulated "Buddies" who are experiencing the day in sync with you.