Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Danny Lewin, the first victim on 9/11

Danny Lewin with Akamai co-founder Tom Leighton in 1999.

Just before 8 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001 American Airlines Flight 11 took off from Boston’s Logan Airport, bound nonstop for Los Angeles. 31-year-old internet entrepreneur Danny Lewin was on board. He was  the first person killed by the 9/11 terrorists as he attempted, single-handedly, to try to stop the hijacking. Interestingly, algorithms he helped develop and Akamai Technologies, the company he co-founded, kept every major news site up and running that day, a feat that proved everything Danny promised to be possible.

Read Lewin's story here

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