AOL outages and service status in China Spring, Texas

Problems in the last 24 hours in China Spring, Texas

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in China Spring, Texas and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports

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  Dave Z (@Dazid) reported 3 minutes ago

  @AngelaBelcamino What dating apps were there in 2003? AOL chat rooms? Lol wtf

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  Shane 💬 (@Technimentals) reported 6 minutes ago

  @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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  jojimbo (@jojimbo_) reported 6 minutes ago

  @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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  Jebornik 🇺🇸 ✝️ (@Jebornik) reported 6 minutes ago

  @disagreebutter Never had an aol address

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  Millie Marconi (@MillieMarconnni) reported 6 minutes ago

  A programmer built a database because software on a US Navy destroyer could not afford to lose its connection. Today that tiny database sits inside every iPhone, Android phone, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, and most people have never heard his name. His name is D. Richard Hipp. The database is SQLite. In 2000, Hipp was helping build software for the USS Oscar Austin, a guided-missile destroyer. The program helped sailors respond when the ship was damaged. If a pipe burst, it could find the valves sailors needed to close, the other valves they needed to open, and exactly where each one was located. During a real attack, this could mean smoke, flooding, broken pipes, and people trying to keep the ship alive. All that information was stored inside an Informix database. When the database server worked, everything was fine. But sometimes the server went down. Sailors would open the damage-control program and get a message saying it could not connect to the database. Hipp’s team did not control the server. They still got blamed because their software showed the error. Hipp started asking a simple question: Why did the program need a database server at all? It only needed to read information from the ship’s computer. Why could it not pull that data directly from the disk? Then government funding paused, leaving Hipp without contract work for a few months. So he built the database himself. SQLite had no separate server to connect to. No administrator had to keep it running. The entire database could live inside one file, and the application could read that file directly. If the computer was working, the database was working. The Navy kept Informix as its official system, but Hipp’s team began using SQLite for development and testing. Then Hipp released it on the internet. Someone managed to run a full SQL database on a Palm Pilot. Motorola called and paid him to improve it for a new phone operating system. AOL wanted it because it needed a database small enough to fit on its installation CDs. Then Mozilla, Symbian, Adobe, Google, and countless other companies followed. When Android began shipping SQLite on millions of phones, users found bugs Hipp had never seen before. So he spent about a year working 60-hour weeks to bring it up to aviation-style testing standards. Today SQLite estimates that more than one trillion active databases may exist across the world. They store browser history, messages, settings, contacts, app data, and countless other pieces of our digital lives. The database created because a warship could not trust a server became the database billions of devices trust when no server exists.

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  Berly (@BerlyBurly) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19. Never had an aol email…at least not that I remember.

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  🔴 Live now | M3RKPaperclipMike (@paperclipmike) reported 9 minutes ago

  @MrsViolence 19. We never had AOL in my house. I do remember my first Yahoo address. I was RedDog69. I named it after the cheap 90's beer. And 69 because I was an insufferable teenager

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  Bandana Pictures (@bandanapictures) reported 12 minutes ago

  @lhallwriter 19. Never had an AOL email address.

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  𝑪𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕🍐 (@_im_tom) reported 14 minutes ago

  @xysist Pthoo.. we are poor yawa. Aol

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  Terwiggleflipper (@DrRonald101) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19. I never had an AOL account. Otherwise, I nailed it.