Salvaging Electronic Last Words
Tracking down and preserving the last e-mail, voice mail, and IMs of victims of the WTC attack.
Kara Hoorn, 20, knows her brother’s cell phone is lost in the ruins of the World Trade Center. Yet she keeps paying the bills because she wants to be able to call his number and hear his electronic greeting, stored on the phone company’s network. What she hears is always the same: “Hi. You’ve reached Brad Hoorn’s cell phone. Please just leave me a message. Thanks.”
“That’s all we have left of his voice,” said Kara Hoorn, a college junior.
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