NOT ONLY HAVE news websites struggled to stay online with the heavy demand, but the founder of one of the leading bandwidth-supply and server companies was one of the slain.

Also confirmed dead: Frasier co-creator David Angell, who as much as anybody invented the modern image of Seattle as a smugly sophisticated, or sophisticatedly smug, place.

And, of course, the image of Boeing jets might forever be changed in the subconscious minds of millions.