TWA Flight 800 - Aftermath

Aftermath

Many users of the Internet responded to the incident. The resulting web traffic set records for Internet activity in 1996. CNN's traffic quadrupled to 3.9 million hits per day. After the flight crashed, the website of The New York Times had its traffic increase to one and one half million hits per day, an increase by half of its previous rate. In 1996 few U.S. government websites were updated daily; the United States Navy's website regarding the crash was constantly updated and had detailed information about the salvage of the crash site.