AOL outages and service status in Sidcup, England
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Problems in the last 24 hours in Sidcup, England
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AOL Issues Reports Near Sidcup, England
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Sidcup and nearby locations:
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The Urban Kitchen (@urbankitchen) reported from Camberwell, England@ShikhaJainMD Actually got 2 - never had MySpace or AOL account!
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Jonathan Richard (@JonRichard) reported from Bromley, England@yungcontent And Bebo never sells to AOL
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Tom Broad (@broad_thomas) reported from Bexleyheath, England@AOLSupportHelp hi we have forgotten our aol@password tried to recover it but can’t, have no recovery details set up help please
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steph carter (@stephca46203104) reported from Darenth, England@AOLSupportHelp I need help to access my email it’s saying the password or account isn’t correct but I can not access my recovery email address either. I’m being sent in a circle
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Steve O (@journeymanstev1) reported from Camberwell, England@Suvvo @AOL I’m having same problem… think it’s worldwide
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Mic Wright 🏳️🌈🏴☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) reported from Poplar, EnglandWhen it first arrived — and I made a blog there within the first two months of its public existence — @tumblr was the near perfect blogging platform. Then AOL destroyed it. Now it’s a horrible jail where I can’t get rid of this dumb screen. Thanks @automatic.
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James Freund (@jayfreund) reported from Poplar, England@AOLSupportHelp hi there having trouble accessing my emails at the moment , I’ve tried to reset my password and it won’t allow me to , could you help?
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Sarah Solomon (@xSarahSolomon) reported from Camberwell, EnglandAGREED! Every kid except me had nice shiny internet...we were stuck with that shitty AOL dialup that we were only allowed to use to play Cartoon Network games on if we were good 🥴
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Orrin Edenfield, an 🇺🇸 living in 🇬🇧 (@OrrinEdenfield) reported from Eltham, England@benjedwards school library had a dial-up modem (probably 9600 baud) to ISP through school district. At home was local ISP as AOL/Compuserve/etc. never had local numbers for me.
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Soren Lindbo (@LyreLeads) reportedMSP 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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Mr Tupids 🍆 (@MrTupids) reported@hthieblot Excite chat was awesome. But PEAK for me using Progs in the AOL 3.0 days. I would go into chat rooms and if someone was rude, I would enter their screen name into my prog, it would send them an IM and all they would hear is “Goodbye” and then they would be logged off for 45 minutes. I think it was called “dolphin” or something.
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Capt Xan Steel (@xansteel) reported@PabloMakes If it’s like AOL used to be, you’ll need to tell it No/Cancel/unsubscribe like three times before it’ll let you.
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p19k (@peteralexbizjak) reportedBending Spoons is the most interesting acquisition machine in tech right now, and the more you dig into it... The weirder it becomes. They buy aging digital brands that still have users and brand recognition but have lost their edge, think Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Meetup, AOL, Eventbrite, and a pile of others. Then they do the thing almost nobody else has the stomach for: they gut the headcount hard, move operations onto their own centralized platform, raise prices, tighten free tiers, and run the products with a much smaller team of their own people (“Spooners”). The original staff is mostly gone. In some cases the entire original team was shown the door. Imagine... Entire staff gone! Mosaic: 330 people out because only the assets were bought. WeTransfer: 75%. Evernote: from hundreds down to a fraction. Vimeo: most of the workforce, including the video team. The list goes on. They are transparent about it in filings as they call the workforce reductions part of the “transformation.” Does it work financially? At the operating level, yes. Revenue went from $387M in 2023 to $1.31B in 2025, with Q1 2026 already at $601M. Operating income is healthy (around 20-21% margins recently) and adjusted operating margins are even better, climbing toward 50%. GAAP net income is messier because of debt interest and acquisition-related costs, but the core engine is printing cash once the cuts land. They target aggressive IRRs on deals and hold everything forever with no exit plan. Compare that to the usual suspects. Constellation Software is the cleanest public parallel. Same “buy and never sell” philosophy, same focus on capital allocation. But Constellation is decentralized: hundreds of small vertical B2B software companies that mostly run themselves. Sticky, mission-critical products, low churn, funded largely from internal cash flow, modest leverage. Steady compounding over two decades. Bending Spoons is the opposite operating model: hyper-centralized platform, consumer and legacy digital brands (higher churn risk), heavy debt, and much more aggressive restructuring. Higher targeted returns, higher variance. Private equity shops like Thoma Bravo or Vista do the cost-cutting and leverage part. The difference is they buy to sell in a few years. Bending Spoons has no intention of flipping anything. They want the portfolio to compound indefinitely. That permanent-capital mindset is closer to Berkshire than classic PE, even if the day-to-day execution looks more like a ruthless turnaround team with a shared AI-heavy tech stack. The model has clear strengths: speed of integration, willingness to make hard decisions, ability to extract margin from businesses that previous owners treated as lifestyle companies or growth stories. It also has obvious risks; consumer products are less sticky than vertical software, debt service is real, and the long-term durability of heavily optimized legacy brands under continuous price pressure is still being tested. Newer big acquisitions (Vimeo, Eventbrite, AOL) are still in the middle of the transformation. Whether you like the approach or find it cold is secondary. The numbers and the consistency of the playbook are hard to ignore. Bending Spoons is running a specialized version of the software roll-up with more aggression on costs and more centralization than the classic players. It is working so far. The interesting question is how far the model scales before the easy targets dry up or the leverage becomes a problem.
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jims mac attack (@lehmacaroni) reported@hthieblot So, specific sites? Mini clip Crazy **** Aol games
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No One (@GriffBamber) reported@voodoodaddy1973 19. I never had an aol address
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James Driver (@pawpawchief) reported@honeymoon250 19. Never had an AOL address.
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Craig (@CoolRunnerCraig) reported@Wachiko Rockstar said “it will be on our website a few hours later” well **** them because it will take days for me to load the page on AOL!!
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Peter Wharton (@PeterVWha) reported@SandraB81459197 @braves2430 Full house then👏👏 I only got 17 even tho I’m probably a few years older Never bothered buying a Walkman or using AOL (used an English provider) nor a paper mat
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BrosefStalin42 (@BrosefStalin42) reported@KieranWrites $$$ and the fact YouTube still gets more content uploaded in 10 mins than you can watch in a year means it's pretty much impossible to compete. The real issue is DMCA is from 1999. Internet has changed from the AOL free Internet disc days.