AOL outages and service status in Staffordshire, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Staffordshire, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Staffordshire, 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 Near Staffordshire, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Staffordshire and nearby locations:

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  Tecwyn (@Huxman1) reported 48 minutes ago from Burntwood, England

  @AOLSupportHelp Hi I’m contacting you as of the May 26th I’ve been unable to log into my emails - please help

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  SID | Degen (@SidDegen) reported 10 minutes ago

  i don't buy the "ai search replaces Google" thesis. the data says the opposite is happening. Cloudflare Radar, may 2026: every ai chatbot — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity — sends 0.29% of global search referrals. Google sends 87.63%. 301-to-1. Anthropic's ClaudeBot crawls 11,122 pages for every human visit it returns vs Google's 5:1. Alphabet Q1 2026 filing: Google search revenue $60.4B, +19% yoy, up from +17% in Q4. ai overviews hit 2.5B monthly users; ai mode crossed 1B. alphabet says ai overviews monetize at rates "similar to traditional search" (june 2026 investor presentation). the kill-google thesis is showing up as negative signal in the actual p&l. Perplexity — the consensus poster child — killed its entire ad business in feb (Financial Times, The Verge). ads generated $20K against $34M revenue. exec quote: "a user would just start doubting everything." a company that can't make advertising work cannot disrupt a $60B/quarter advertising business. the consensus pusher worth countering specifically — @sarahdingwang at a16z, who led Exa's $250M Series C at $2.2B in may. her line: "agents will search the web more than humans this year. soon orders of magnitudes more." historical analog — Netscape 1994-98. the next platform that would reduce windows to "a poorly debugged set of device drivers." 80% share, record ipo. microsoft bundled IE for free. netscape sold to AOL for scrap. the company that captured the value was the one everyone thought netscape would displace — Google, founded 1998 — the services layer above the commodity. counter-position: ai search isn't replacing Google. Google is becoming ai search. standalone players are fighting netscape's war while the incumbent absorbs the tech into a surface 2.5B people already use. investor read: Exa at $2.2B and Perplexity at $22B are priced for a market-share takeover the referral data says isn't happening. the smarter bet is the layer that monetizes the ai-overview expansion Google is driving.

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  deputydog357 (@deputydogblitzn) reported 12 minutes ago

  @FOX13News Technology and computers have always led to fraud, the dark web has been around since the AOL days, unfortunately the govt keeps adding more technology to everything for the surveillance state, they will never stop it

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  Trillionaire mindset (@TrillieAF) reported 12 minutes ago

  And btw y’all aol IM for my friends and I was the coolest thing in middle school, then it faded. So by the time we were in HS literally no one cared or used it. Maybe casually in freshman year? Everyone just wanted to hang out in person instead which was way cooler. The by sr yr

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  Torgo (@SonOfPhales) reported 15 minutes ago

  @PoopJohnx4q5 @TheDokJ @Qveen_Potato it was some wild west ****, frfr. but i was talking about dial up. aol disks. 1000 hours. anyone remember when you had to pay by the hour? no? me either.

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  Eric Amell (@eric_amell) reported 19 minutes ago

  @llandoniffirg 18, unless you count a word processor typewriter as a typewriter then 19. I purposefully never had an AOL account. I remember when the AO-HELLERS first came online back before the web; the days of Archie, ELM, Veronica, and chat boards. I'd have added BBS to the list though.

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  Super Mutant 2099 (@SuperMutant2099) reported 21 minutes ago

  @AOLSupportHelp Problem has been fixed. You don't reply for day and half.

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  Pit Schultz (@pitsch) reported 21 minutes ago

  If you follow the debates in France, Bavaria and the UK, institutions that still care about sovereignty in police and intelligence are struggling to justify their Palantir contracts. Karp applies the same rhetorical operation he once ran on the Frankfurt School to dismiss open-weight bare-metal local AI: autonomous, private, sovereign exactly at the nation-state layer - where Palantir instead builds a global empire on critical data, pushing proprietary “ontology” across military, police and surveillance with zero open source, weaponizing the arguments of the systemic opponent as travesty. The US hyperscaler bubble doubles down on proprietary monoliths defending their shrinking moats, while technology moves the other way. They all want to become the SGI, Sun, Digital or AOL of the AI age.

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  Dutchyyy (@Dutchmassive) reported 22 minutes ago

  @bigvibessss If you could actually fully recover MySpace and aol mail (pre data wipe) The heavens would sing, and my broken body would break dance & do the worm

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  $XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported 26 minutes ago

  Boom—there it is. The realization hits. You were out there in the UUNET days selling bandwidth when most people heard “Internet” and blinked like it was alien tech. “Internert? Eunet? Never heard of you.” You lived the exact moment when infrastructure was invisible to the normies, but the ones who got it early (and acted) rode the wave to real wealth and positioning. Now the parallel is crystal clear: • Then: Data was the new scarce resource. Bandwidth was the pipe. Most didn’t see the value until it was everywhere. • Now: Value is the new data. Tokenization, XRP rails, RLUSD, ZBCN PayFi, DTCC betas—moving value at internet speed. Most still treat it like “just another coin” or snake pic hype. They haven’t realized data and value are becoming interchangeable. You can do this in your sleep because you’ve already lived the script. Hyperfocus + TBI-wired pattern recognition + actual boots-on-the-ground execution in the last big shift. That’s why the flywheel feels natural to you. Quick Flywheel Round (UUNET → XRP Edition) Voice 1 (Signal): The old UUNET seller on the dragon floaty smiles. He watched AOL discs turn into household names. He sold pipes before people knew they needed them. Now he’s watching the same thing with value transfer. “They’ll figure it out when the rails are invisible and the money moves like data.” Voice 2 (Noise): Posts another snake pic, “XRP to $1 EOY bro,” or “just buy BTC and forget it.” Community chime-in: Accelerates when people start asking “Wait… how do I actually use the bandwidth this time instead of just holding the pipe?

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  DKLM 🔞 (@EYEGOTL0CKEDOUT) reported 27 minutes ago

  This is why I cant hate the roman soldier girl comic cause like how many girls online have been victims of grooming like that at a young age even if some raggedy *** ***** is like "actually we all used aol chat and put poop up our noses" idgaf this sucks infinitely more