AOL outages and service status in Stamford, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Stamford, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Stamford, 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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  Millie Marconi (@MillieMarconnni) reported 2 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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  Terry_mason (Dewalt) (@TiriqueDemonte) reported 2 minutes ago

  @VerizonSupport why is there saying Error network error is like accoynts Va or pharmacy. Or that aol. I was aol employee do find out dobt know. What dont know find out. Incorporated. Tech issues. Including bilking and even hardware. Vendir access ness usw carrier tyson. Extremely wireless .GM. verizon manager thar Randy well. Library. #Ready

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  Soren Lindbo (@LyreLeads) reported 5 minutes ago

  MSP prospecting tip: look for businesses still on Yahoo/AOL email, no SSL on the site, hosting on SquareSpace or Wix. That combination means no in-house IT, no enterprise vendor, zero compliance posture. The cleanest signal you can find.

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  John Curran (@jac2623) reported 17 minutes ago

  19. Never used AOL.

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  Ren Felton (@renxist) reported 23 minutes ago

  @QueenHasSpoken_ @idpicciotto @VividProwess Yes, AOL message boards existed. Nobody said the Internet didn’t. The point is that comparing the fragmented online forums of 2001 to today’s algorithmic mass social media ecosystem is absurd. And “I was online and don’t remember seeing criticism of Bush” still isn’t evidence that criticism didn’t exist. Your AOL login wasn’t a representative sample of American public opinion.

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  supercooldude (@gingeraleteas39) reported 25 minutes ago

  omg can we stop making fun of the gerard throw up **** its like his business 😭 like the jokes are not hitting guys its just people reposting the aol ss and his old tweets like hello

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  HowlingRooster (@MJM0187) reported 26 minutes ago

  If this dindu is being 'held to a higher standard because he's a black,' then I think we can shut down FAFSA and start closing non-engineering colleges. Jason Arday held to higher standards because he’s black, suggests Polanski - AOL

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  Tiffany LaDow, PharmD (@LadowTiffany) reported 26 minutes ago

  As a kid I got in so much trouble for chatting on AOL Instant Messenger while doing homework but honestly nothing could’ve prepared me better for Microsoft Teams ✨

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  No One (@GriffBamber) reported 27 minutes ago

  @voodoodaddy1973 19. I never had an aol address

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  Robin Fultz (@robin16633) reported 27 minutes ago

  @oelma__ I got 19. Never had an AOL address.