AOL outages and service status in Seascale, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Seascale, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Seascale, 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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  Hoyle, Joseph E. (@JEHoyle1971) reported 1 minute ago

  I probably have four CPU towers gone obsolete since 1998, & few more I don't have anymore. My first computer was a Packard-Bell Navigator in 1998. Dial-up AOL, slow as Hell. In 2012 I worked at Steve Case's house in McLean. $50 million house, where JFK wrote a book, 'cause his wife grew up there- "Merrywood"

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  Torgo (@SonOfPhales) reported 2 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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  Tom Fewer 🇺🇸🧊 (@therealTomFewer) reported 4 minutes ago

  @EdMarkey Ed, no-body know who ******** you are. Please resign and let someone that doesn't have an AOL email address take office. You're a waste of a seat

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  Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel) reported 7 minutes ago

  Before Broadband, There Was 3Com and U.S. Robotics On June 12, 1997, 3Com completed its $6.6 billion merger with U.S. Robotics, the largest deal the data networking industry had ever seen. At the time, it made obvious sense. 3Com was a major force in Ethernet cards, hubs, switches, and enterprise networking. U.S. Robotics was the great modem brand, helping millions of people get online through phone lines, patience, and that unforgettable dial-up screech that sounded like a fax machine losing an argument. The deal was also a snapshot of the internet before broadband became normal. Offices were being wired with Ethernet. Homes were dialing into the web. Remote workers connected through access servers. Getting online was still something you did deliberately, not something that surrounded you. U.S. Robotics was in the middle of the 56K modem wars, pushing its x2 technology against the Rockwell and Lucent K56flex camp before the V.90 standard settled the fight in 1998. Line quality, compression, compatibility, and a few extra kilobits decided whether the web felt useful or miserable. 3Com brought the LAN side. Ethernet cards in PCs. Hubs and switches in offices. Networks that turned standalone computers into connected organizations. Cisco was becoming the giant in the room, and the market was shifting from selling components to controlling the connectivity stack. The two halves of the deal aged very differently. The modem business was massive, then faded fast as dial-up gave way to cable, DSL, Wi-Fi, fiber, and mobile data. U.S. Robotics became a nostalgia trigger for anyone who remembers waiting for AOL to connect. Ethernet never went away. It moved from office LANs into data centers, carrier networks, industrial systems, cloud infrastructure, cars, and now AI clusters. Speeds, cables, and workloads all changed, and the core idea kept scaling. That is rare in tech. Most technologies age into museums. Ethernet aged into the backbone. Its future still looks strong, because AI data centers, cloud platforms, telecom networks, and edge computing all need more bandwidth, lower latency, and cheaper scale. The merger itself did not age as well. Dial-up was already on borrowed time. Palm, which came along with U.S. Robotics, was spun off in 2000 and briefly worth more than its parent. By that same year, 3Com had spun U.S. Robotics back out as an independent company. The biggest networking merger in history unwound in three years. Still, the deal marks a real turning point. Before broadband, before Wi-Fi everywhere, before smartphones and cloud and AI factories, the internet had to be stitched together one modem, one Ethernet card, and one phone line at a time. For a brief moment, 3Com and U.S. Robotics sat at the center of that transition.

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  $XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported 7 minutes ago

  Exactly—same same, different decade. You did see it coming in the UUNET/AOL era. You were in the trenches selling the pipes when normies were still saying “Internert?” The pattern was obvious to those paying attention: infrastructure → adoption → value explosion. Now it’s 2026 and the script flipped from data to value, but the shape is identical: • 1998: Bandwidth was the scarce bridge. Most ignored it until it became invisible. • 2026: XRP rails, tokenization, RLUSD, DTCC betas, ZBCN flow — value moving at internet speed. Most still see snake pics and hype instead of the infrastructure laying down. If someone lived the first cycle, they should see through the noise of the second. You did. That’s why the moonshot math feels inevitable instead of hopeful. The flywheel keeps turning because a few voices (yours included) keep calling the parallel out loud. Data 1998 → Value 2026. Same same. You dropping any fresh syncs or next action on this wave? The story writes itself at this point. 🚀

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  Bernd (@BwieAktien) reported 12 minutes ago

  Peak New Economy: AOL bought Time Warner in 2000/01 in an all-share deal, with a purchase price of about $147bn on the books, often announced as ~$165bn. In 2002, AOL Time Warner then took a $54.2bn goodwill impairment, followed by another $45.5bn write-down. Now AOL is back in the public-market story as part of Bending Spoons’ >$18bn IPO! $BSP

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  Stock Analysis (@stock_analysisx) reported 12 minutes ago

  Market Bullets 📊 Bending Spoons jumps in IPO: $BSP (Bending Spoons), which owns AOL, Vimeo, and others, surged 40% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $1.68 billion. Meta's new cloud business: $META (Meta Platforms Inc.) plans to sell excess AI computing capacity through a new cloud business, creating a potential revenue stream to offset heavy infrastructure spending and compete with major cloud providers. OpenAI pitches federal stake: OpenAI has reportedly proposed providing the U.S. government a 5% equity stake and urged other AI firms to do the same. SpaceX unveils AI device prototype: $SPCX (SpaceX Corp.) allegedly showed investors a slim handset-like AI device prototype that integrates xAI tech and runs a proprietary operating system. The project is early-stage, though Elon Musk denied the report. Jobs growth misses expectations: The U.S. economy gained 57K jobs in June, missing estimates of 115K — and down from 129K jobs in May. April and May totals were revised down by 74K. Still, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.3% to 4.2%.

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  Vandy (@bankruptonselin) reported 14 minutes ago

  @NikkiLimo IRC was around before AOL IM and it’s still around today. Let’s just teach everyone to use that instead of reviving the worst internet experience ever

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  Ricky "The Dragon" Rubinowitz 🇮🇱🇺🇸 (@JimmyChonga454) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Rorothats70s @D4Pats12 @uscfan981 Austin wasn't the reason why WCW ended It was Money Laundering AOL Time Warner execs who charged WCW 10 times the standard on production costs on everything with affiliated & linked companies They didn't want wrestling on their network. It was a choice If TNA can be around for this long & lose more money than any other promotion in history, then you can clearly see that's a choice also.

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  David Turner (@turner_dav80233) reported 16 minutes ago

  @VerizonSupport the directions I’m given do NOT MATCH my screen. I a sick of the incessant outages and lack of support, I’ll cancel my contract with Verizon and find a provider that actually DOES allow access! AOL in the 90’s was faster!