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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  Sue 🇺🇸🐊🌴🌺🦩✌🏼 (@FloridaSueK) reported 6 minutes ago

  @justinkallhoff @RonDeSantis Not anti AI, just cautious AI. Perhaps AI should not be widely available. Perhaps it should be geared toward business use, like the Adobe software suite or Microscoft Office suite of business software. Like any tool, it has potential for both good and bad. We don’t let 13 year olds drive cars and drink beer for a reason… perhaps AI should not be so readily available to young minds. They can learn to use AI under a teacher’s guidance ( to use in a later career- it’s an essential skill). And for the record, I would completely shove the Internet back in a box… life was so much more simple in the late 80s and early 90s before PCs and AOL brought the Internet to anyone who could afford it. Same with cell phones. And the irony is not lost on me I am discussing this with strangers on the Internet 🤓

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  Ghost of Jimmy Legan (@GhostofJLegan) reported 10 minutes ago

  @JebraFaushay Mergers have a nasty habit of not working out. I am thinking of Time Warner's disastrous marriage to AOL, but there are a myriad of examples.

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  Avi 🇨🇦🇮🇱/(ESC) (@Wpg_Jets79584) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ToxicWorrier @llandoniffirg 19. Never had aol

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  $XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported 14 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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  Gary Dauphin (@GeeDeezyDauphin) reported 15 minutes ago

  @TTrimoreau Anyone remember Apple's EWorld? It was Apple's attempt to gain some of the profits from the internet craze. I told them it would fail. It ended up being a year and half late, and was still just a rebranded version of AOL online. It folded shortly after being released.

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  Will Schryver (@Will_Schryver) reported 15 minutes ago

  2000–2002: Bubble, Terror & Scandal 2000: NASDAQ peaks at 5,048 (March 10) and begins a 78% collapse. AOL announces the $165B Time Warner merger — the worst deal ever 2001: 9/11 closes markets until Sept 17 — the longest shutdown since 1914. Enron collapses in December 2002: WorldCom's $11B fraud → Sarbanes-Oxley. The bear bottoms in October, down 49%

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  oh_well (@confirm__email) reported 16 minutes ago

  @MarinaMedvin All this is aol Ed by simply leaving nato and let the eurozone deal with their own problems. I hear France can sortie a flotilla with carrier at least for a few weeks. And the UK only needs a couple of months to get one destroyer ready for sea. win win. Imagine all the lolz

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  Super Mutant 2099 (@SuperMutant2099) reported 19 minutes ago

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

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  madz (@yaoiontheside) reported 20 minutes ago

  @thefieldscene facts. i’m calling it, he’s getting that laptop to ******** to Will’s AOL messages and photos Will sends him (probably an extreme but the man is beyond help what can i do 🫩)

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  CaptainCodeman (@CaptainCodeman) reported 22 minutes ago

  @PrairieVeteran @MarkJCarney He's got ****-all deals anywhere. Oh wait, we got 10 months of Canola to China in exchange for them being able to sell EVs in Canada for 5 YEARS. He couldn't negotiate a free AOL CD.