AOL outages and service status in Preston, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Preston, England

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Investor in chaos and shortages (@Toronto242M) reported 6 minutes ago

  You're judging AI the way people judged the internet during the dial-up era. AOL needed CDs to access the internet. It was noisy and slow. The Netscape browser was primitive. Broadband didn't exist. Yet nobody concluded the internet wasn't the future. If you weren't around in the early days of the internet, I suggest you research how it evolved. AI is in the same stage today. Capabilities will improve, costs will fall, and infrastructure will scale. Nobody quit the internet race because it was expensive. Nobody will quit the AI race either. In fact more particpants will enter. One day there will be an AI app that is a must have. Some kid is probably working on it his garage right now. @jeffbezos Look forward. $NVDA $MU $CRDO $MRVL

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  Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reported 6 minutes ago

  20. Connected Account Vulnerability The Situation: Back in 2010, you finally made the jump from Yahoo, Hotmail, or AOL to Gmail. To make the transition easier, you linked your old legacy account to automatically forward everything into your new Gmail inbox. You haven't logged into that Yahoo account in a decade. The Mechanics: Legacy email platforms like Yahoo and AOL have notoriously outdated, porous spam filters compared to Google's billion-dollar machine learning infrastructure. By using POP3 or IMAP to pull that mail into Gmail, you are essentially bypassing Google's frontline defenses and piping raw, unfiltered internet sewage straight into your pristine Gmail ecosystem. The Fix: It is time to sever the cord. Go to Gmail Settings > Accounts and Import. Look under "Check mail from other accounts." Delete the legacy connections. If you absolutely still need access to that ancient Hotmail account for banking resets, log into it directly, aggressively clean it, and set up incredibly strict server-side rules there before allowing it anywhere near your primary hub.

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  RichardJK (@RichardJKPE) reported 7 minutes ago

  @girdley The worst was Time Warner's purchase of AOL.

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  John (@JohnFindsYouJew) reported 9 minutes ago

  @weebtrash2021v4 @Todney_Ruxedo AOL baby. "Holly ****, John has a computer with the internet!"

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  Brian Sowards (he/they) (@briansowards) reported 10 minutes ago

  @burkov my 70+ year old mother in law. its her AI. all her searches, ideas, projects, tech help, questions. I don’t use it now, but I simply introduce her to the app. Reminds me of AOL at the dawn of the internet.

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  Don Fotsch 🌵🇺🇸 (@fotsch1) reported 12 minutes ago

  @munster_gene 1) the kids stuff is great for Brand 2) it’s too complicated 3) designed by “experts” (w/ any kids?) 4) it won’t get used much How do we know all this? We learned it all with AOL Parental Controls; was a KEY reason parents chose AOL; kids were the ones who knew it best (shutting it off); overall, minimal usage. anyone with kids, smiles at #2 above, in particular — engr, father of six, decade at Apple, five at AOL p.s. We will never see any stats on Apple/iPhone “kid safety” usage, due to points above; they’ll just keep taking about how they work with “experts”, who ironically, often have few or no, children.

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  Bill Waller (@BillWaller5) reported 16 minutes ago

  @SouthDallasFood Like "we" had on Myspace? You actually ADMIT publicly that you wasted your time on that terrible social platform that didn't work? What was your first move, AOL dial-up? Ha ha ha ha!

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  Helles Sachsen (@HellesSachsen) reported 16 minutes ago

  @hthieblot In the 90s there were no websites or apps, only Usenet, and then AOL came along with its intranet where you could chat, with access to a few dozen early internet sites, which you never used because AOL chat was the killer application at the time.

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  Ron Duncan ✝️ (@RonDuncan7) reported 21 minutes ago

  @dennismiloseski @hthieblot Very familiar to me. I worked for AOL from February '97 to December 2006 when the call center I was working in shut down. I started in Tech support and learned a great deal about all things computer related, both in dealing with hardware and software. Technology has changed immensely over the past 30 years.

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  green p1 phosphor screen (@LazyPipe) reported 21 minutes ago

  @FellerYeller The last chatroom I joined was on AOL in like 1999. It's never been more over.