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AOL (America Online) is an internet portal as well as an internet service provider. As an ISP, AOL offers dial up internet through its AOL Advantage plans.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by AOL users through our website.
- E-mail (91%)
- Internet (8%)
- Total Blackout (1%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent AOL outage reports came from the following cities: Los Angeles, Glasgow, Cheltenham, Fremont, Bristol, South Park Township, Queens, Lawrenceburg, Hempstead, Chicago, Monterey, Millsboro, Melbourne, Flower Mound, and Baldwin Park.
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Internet | 14 days ago |
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Total Blackout | 15 days ago |
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AOL Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Frogo (@Dubflip) reported@shakoistsLog At 11 I was phishing for passwords with an AOL login clone I made from a screenshot. Obscenities came well before that
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Bandana Pictures (@bandanapictures) reported@lhallwriter 19. Never had an AOL email address.
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Berly (@BerlyBurly) reported@Matt_Pinner 19. Never had an aol email…at least not that I remember.
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$XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported@Ripplesinwales They have no choice — adapt or get left behind. What we’re really watching is the same shift that hit the stock market in the late 90s. I jumped on E*TRADE right around the time AOL went mainstream in 1998. That was the moment the “do-it-yourself” crowd said forget the middleman (stock brokers) and moved to online trading. The ones who understood cut out the middle and kept more of the profit. The ones who didn’t just stayed with the old system. The exact same divide is unfolding again right now on the banking side — bank custody vs self-custody.
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retired (@Helbreak07) reported@LuluTeala 19. It was AOL for me. I got a water bed in 2006 when I rented a cheap furnished apartment in Alaska. I ended up sleeping on the couch, couldn't stand the damn'd thing
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RianReese333 (@RReese333) reported@Matt_Pinner 19, I never had an AOL address
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Doug Forcett (@BrentWe14327724) reported@Matt_Pinner I got 19 – never had AOL
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Kristinn Sævar Magnússon (@kristinnsms) reportedThe model: buy unloved internet assets, rebuild the technology, centralise the infrastructure, cut the cost base, keep the cash. More than 50 acquisitions since 2013, and they have never sold a business. Evernote. WeTransfer. Vimeo. Meetup. Brightcove. Eventbrite. AOL.
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Dazlidorne (@Dazlidorne) reported@ayligerwolf 20. I mean, a few were borderline. Never had an aol address, but I e-mailed someone who did. Same thing with the waterbed. Never had one, but I have been on one.
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Blake Hansen (@BlakesLLAIS) reported@DChadwickAuthor 19. Never had an AOL account.
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I am Stephen (@SteveR9155) reported@Matt_Pinner I never used AOL. everything else, yup.
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Tnt13521 (@tnt1352172047) reported@Matt_Pinner 19, never had AOL account
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Arbatel de Persecute (@arbatel1979) reported@Maegatron3030 19 for me. I never messed with AOL. Those discs we’d get for free though. All the time!
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Who's This Guy? (@WhosThisGuy83) reported@klove0518 19, never had an AOL account, I feel like a failure now.
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WiscoSteve (@Wisco_Steve) reported@gbean2288 @RyanShead Clam down boomer, disconnect from AOL and touch grass. Moran is actually the correct spelling, unless you are new to AOL.
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Beholder242 (Brett T) (@beholder242) reported@ReavingMango @MagsNoctis 18. Never used AOL or a waterbed.
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Shane 💬 (@Technimentals) reported@HayleyWazEre Long story short, AOL and the largest business-to-business Internet Service Provider at the time (UUNET), were both headquartered here. Companies started laying a lot of fiber. This has been going on for 25 years here. They take a lot of water and power.
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𒌐 Binghe | 📖 TVWH vol 1 (@blyssfuldreams) reportedI want 2 cut I wantb2 cut **** you **** yiu calling me crazy maybe I am ******* crazy huh **** you I hate you always trying to gaslight me I hate THE BOTH OF YOU I HATE YOU AOL
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perry⭐️🪽 (@truebluedyke) reportedthem talking in aol chatrooms and sending each other gore sites and live link **** and being freaky gore lovers together 🫡🫡🫡🫡
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Brett Caughran (@FundamentEdge) reportedMy playful analogy is we are in the AOL era of AI. Early stage of a revolutionary technology, but the delivery mechanism is still clunky, requiring really dumb concepts like prompt engineering. In 1996, you couldn't even imagine business models like Uber, Netflix, the iPhone, YouTube or Tesla FSD, because the technology wasn't even close to capable or cost effective enough. From 1996-2006 global data volume grew by a factor of 10,000,000x (per Gemini), but that growth was hugely deflationary (wholesale IP transit cost down 99%), i.e. good for the application layer and selectively bad for the pipe owners (telecom). Overall, the mix of massive volume growth offset against gnarly price deflation has been a, net/net, positive thing for telecom investing. Does that hold for the frontier labs? "Intelligence pipe" feels like it can be a pretty damn awesome business, but, like telecoms, the evolution of "intelligence pipe as a business" will be extremely path dependent and will require real business models with attractive unit economics to fund. Obviously most of the 90's era telecoms went bust and the assets were only financially productive for the 2nd or 3rd owners, mostly due to balance sheet issues & the subsequent closing of the capital markets window. Though capital markets have evolved materially since the early 2000's telecom bust with a regulatory environment more supportive of monopolies/oligopolies and private capital markets more supportive of funding massive cash burn (to wit, I think it's a really bad idea for Anthropic to IPO in '26, but what do I know?). So imagine that prior but like 10-100x the size of the internet. Maybe more? As in 1996 when you couldn't even envision Netflix/Uber, the iPhone or Tesla FSD, we have zero idea what 2056 looks like, but the exponential will certainly drive even more upside uncertainty in technology. idk, hard to be structurally bearish on the "intelligence pipe" and subsequently, infrastructure that feeds the pipe (though it feels certain there will be super gnarly potholes, messy shakeouts, and bankruptcies along the way, as we saw in telecom evolution), and ultimately what matters is free cash flow production, which feeds from the intersection of exponential volumes against unit level deflation. What's exciting to me with the improvement in the models, both frontier like Fable/Sol and open source like Kimi/GLM/Deep-Seek, is you are getting *closer* so seeing a real application layer possible in a very intellectually difficult sandbox like public market investing. Nearly four years from GPT 3.5 demo, we still aren't there. We are still in the "AOL era" - too slow, not competent enough, too expensive. But are we exiting that era? It feels to me like we might be. If I had to guess, my guess is the frontier labs continue to be good businesses (and extremely volatile public stocks), mostly due to the reflexive nature of capital markets & talent acquisition. But what seems really obvious, to me, is that 2026-2036 is going to be the era of the application layer, where the Travis Kalanick-style entrepreneur takes this "intelligence pipe" and envisions new & groundbreaking businesses that change the world. That entrepreneurial accelerate will drive durable and accelerating demand for the intelligence pipe, it seems. It's a really exciting time to be alive.
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Ken Nelson (@atKenNelson) reported@disagreebutter 19. I’ve never used AOL.
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On Orbit Satellite 📻☂️Radiate Brightness (@KM4OOS_EM71) reportedIt is a daily barrage of fake *** accounts online that all claim to want me, up until they ask for me to install an app and talk to them about a business opportunity. I am so damn tired of this new internet. I want to go back to AOL or even Prodigy, maybe even Compuserve.
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FRESH™👻👑 (@PalmBeach561) reportedI remember back when we had aol chat rooms and would just talk **** about everything and any thing
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Cannonball1976 (@jkcannon1) reported@usanewshq The people offended never would've survived an AOL chatroom *eyeroll*
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jojimbo (@jojimbo_) reported@dakroot I started...1994? Intro to computer science I was sold & never looked back. ICQ (messenger) predated aol msgr, it was pretty cool, & i did like chatrooms. I worked nights & usually stayed up all night doing homework, so they were good ways to "socialize" around my crazy hours.
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Josh Centrum (@CentrumJosh) reported@Rajatsoni Calling XRP holders stupid while chasing BTC because it was invented first is hilarious. By that logic we should all still be using AOL and BlackBerrys. Tech history is littered with first movers that got passed by better technology. BTC has had 15+ years to scale and and hasn’t
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Beth Fogle (@fogle003) reported@Matt_Pinner I never had an AOL address 🤪
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Exceed (@Exc3ed) reported@koffie_ch 19 but only cause I'm Canadian and never had AOL... Otherwise, yeah....
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Patrick Hill (@llihkcirtap) reported@Matt_Pinner 19 of 20, never had an AOL address
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Cathleen O'Connor (@CathleenOConnor) reported@lhallwriter 19 - never had an AOL address