AOL outages and service status in Wincanton, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Wincanton, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Wincanton, England 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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  Content Soul✌️🎯🩵 (@rajeshkodavati) reported 1 minute ago

  5/ The payoff is already showing: OpenAI signed on as TCS's data centre business's first customer, starting with 100 megawatts of capacity as part of the $500 billion Stargate initiative. (aol) Tata Group will also roll out ChatGPT Enterprise internally.

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  Otookee (@Otookee1) reported 2 minutes ago

  @woofknight 19. Only one I’m missing is the AOL address - I never used AOL despite them sending me many complementary disks, I was into weirder and more obscure BBSes.

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  Chris Farrell (@chrispfarrell) reported 2 minutes ago

  I think OpenAI and Anthropic might be the CompuServe and AOL of the AI era. Does anyone actually think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, X/Twitter, and all of the other big tech companies will just allow these 2 badly run startups to capture the AI market? OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat or sustainable competitive advantage. To win they have to not only develop a moat but penetrate some of the most fortified moats. Model quality isn't a moat. Kimi, Grok, Deepseek proved that. Inference will become a commodity utility that requires massive CapEx that neither can finance. Interface is where the moat is the weakest. OpenAI and Anthropic do not own the apps or the OS. The OS and apps are owned by parties who view OpenAI or Anthropic as threats. The OS and apps are where AI choice happens. As if that is not grim enough, AI sovereignty will become an issue. Consumers will want their iCloud data to stay in iCloud, their OneDrive data to stay in OneDrive, etc. Enterprise customers will want AI from their cloud providers to reduce egress and for performance + IP reasons. It is honestly hard to imagine a world where OpenAI and Anthropic survive as they are. They will either morph into companies with entirely different value offerings or die like Compuserve and AOL.

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  Sara K. Eisen (@SarKE) reported 3 minutes ago

  @xwanyex Yes. Very much this. I remember my first post-college job in mid/late 90s, bored between faxes I was sending for my boss at a large non profit (kids this is all true and not satire.) On ICQ, pre AOL acquisition, I was chatting w someone in Tasmania (a pilot, he claimed) and another person, a professor from South UK, who told me to listen to Rodrigo. This was still before you could send graphic files so everyone was an avatar and words unless you put a photograph in an envelope and mailed it. I ended up writing a novel when a startup I’d just joined closed in mid 2000, about how relationships and communication would and have changed in this new texting world. Never published it because “some people did some things” in 2001 and agents only wanted non fiction, and then I lost the drive. Thank you for coming to my TED walk down memory lane.

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  Neal (@GrandpaBigDog) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Andie00471 @Soaringeagle45 19. Never had an AOL address.

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  Vadim (AI, ⋈) (@zacodil) reported 6 minutes ago

  @pe_remek Flat-rate dial-up ran on the same circuit-switched lines as per-minute dial-up. AOL sold $19.95 unlimited in 1996 with the phone network unchanged. If circuit switching forced per-minute billing, that plan could not have existed. It did, and millions bought it. So the meter was a pricing choice, not a property of the wire. It came off dial-up by decision, and Anthropic just announced the same move for its best model: folding it back into a flat subscription.

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  MazzMos (@Game_City_Baby) reported 8 minutes ago

  @DudespostingWs Someone across town used to talk **** to him on AOL and he'd be at their door in 8 ******* minutes on foot

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  Mike Lin (@mikelin1789) reported 9 minutes ago

  @dampedspring Most kids who trade 2x/3x Etfs on "AI stocks" have never heard of AOL, Netscape, WorldCom, Ciena, Sun Micro, Nokia, and more.

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  The_IT_POV (@groundserver) reported 14 minutes ago

  GOODBYE in the AOL voice. If our allie was not so Anti-American, it would be less of an issue.

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  blue diamond (@Diamondairre) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AOL stop being an ******* go back to you bartending