Apparently the major media outlets were the last to let us know. While they scrambled to put on their ties and do their hair, the metaverse was spreading the information we cared about. I'd bet a quarter that most people got the news first from a descendent of UO: Twitter, FB, or an online game.
Where was I? Sanctum, home of the Guardian faction in Rift.
i saw it on Tumblr.
Posted by: Anthony | May 02, 2011 at 09:40
Heard through City of Heroes.
Posted by: Chas | May 02, 2011 at 10:23
Wasn't on a computer at all. My Fiancee was on the computer and told me.
Posted by: Anthony Thomas | May 02, 2011 at 11:48
Saw it on Twitter while I was in New Halas in EQII.
Posted by: Wihelm Arturus | May 02, 2011 at 11:54
Recovering from a wipe on 10-man heroic Valiona and Theralion.
Posted by: Jordan T. Thevenow-Harrison | May 02, 2011 at 12:25
I was in the North Downs doing the book 3, chapter 4 quests with my burglar.
Posted by: NoAstronomer | May 02, 2011 at 12:42
i had just signed out of my AOL webmail, which dumps me back to their headlines page.
Posted by: catherwood | May 02, 2011 at 14:47
I was on 4chan /b/. The response was appropriately inappropriate.
Posted by: Joshua B. Treadway | May 02, 2011 at 15:20
I was in Orgrimmar. Trade chat is a bizarre thing.
Posted by: Ryan Hart | May 02, 2011 at 16:54
BoingBoing.
Posted by: Andy Havens | May 02, 2011 at 16:58
Methinks this is a biased sample :-p
(Facebook here)
Posted by: Isaac Knowles | May 02, 2011 at 18:03
I saw it on Facebook and threw on CNN.
Posted by: Mike Kent | May 02, 2011 at 20:09
Nice Post!
Posted by: Argentina gaming | May 02, 2011 at 21:06
Heard it from my partner in science during the Portal co-op missions. Decided that it wasn't important and continued testing.
Posted by: Enno | May 02, 2011 at 22:07
Twitter while plowing through Canadian election tweets.
Posted by: Croquet Hax | May 02, 2011 at 23:29
What? OBL is dead?!
Well I did know, yes, but the first I heard about it was when my father-in-law arrived in the morning and asked what we thought. He'd seen it on the TV breakfast-time news. We hadn't had the TV on, and I'd been marking 50-page student project reports so hadn't been online.
Sometimes, word of mouth really is word of mouth.
Richard
Posted by: Richard Bartle | May 03, 2011 at 04:28
It's not means the terrorist attacks stop.I think.Americans will may be more attacks by terrorist ,special who oversea .
Posted by: thomassj | May 03, 2011 at 10:47
In bed listening to BBC world service broadcasting Obama's speech live awake for no good reason - I blame Obama for waking me up.
Posted by: ren reynolds | May 03, 2011 at 15:09
Corporation chat in EVE. We stopped a fleet op so we could watch obamas live broadcast.
Posted by: Marcus | May 03, 2011 at 20:43
I was at the gym on the stair master.
Posted by: Joe Lund | May 06, 2011 at 14:53
I was currently vacationing on Planet Calypso, probably spending more money than I should.
Posted by: Edward Stanaway | May 09, 2011 at 14:05
Shooting at a POS in Okagaken in Black Rise when OBL was podded
Posted by: Martin S Slingsby | May 15, 2011 at 16:36
My husband was playing WoW and told me. Incidentally, WoW was also what we were playing when we heard Michael Jackson died. I am putting a blurb about it in my dissertation. (It's about MMOs.)
Posted by: Connie | May 16, 2011 at 16:18
I was completely disconnected, reading an honest-to-god paper book (with ink on my fingers to prove it). Didn't find out until 10AM the next day. I live far enough from downtown Iowa City that I didn't even hear the spontaneous Bacchanalian celebrations that broke out on the U-Iowa campus.
Posted by: Account Deleted | May 19, 2011 at 15:10
I can't remember, because I didn't care.
9/11 was false flag, and the American government was responsible for it; whether they outsourced bin Laden to do it or not. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. I was watching the event live as it happened, and I've been convinced of that, ever since that time.
Posted by: Petrus | May 20, 2011 at 22:39
I was playing board games in a bar when it came over the TV. Some people came in from across the street to watch the news. My group and I sort of shrugged it off and kept playing.
Posted by: Michael Chui | May 26, 2011 at 17:57
I was out trekking in Panama and didnĀ“t hear about it for a full two weeks, by then most of the ho-hum had all died down. Sometimes its worth missing somethings - I guess!
Posted by: Jean Smith | Jul 16, 2011 at 15:35