AOL outages and service status in Penzance, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Penzance, England

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

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  W.R. Schock, QBD (@iontecs_pemf) reported 8 minutes ago

  @hthieblot It was a masterpiece. AOL, spawn of hell, bought out Netscape in 1998 & deliberately destroyed it trying to force people back to hell. Worst decision in internet history.

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  Darrell Hancock (@Darrelldoc) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Magickgirl37 I got 18. Never had a Walkman or AOL.

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  Chris DeBaggis (@ThrillStack) reported 11 minutes ago

  @N_and_ni We used books and went to college for computer science. You had to figure it out and there were no forums yet like stack overflow to tell you if your code was wrong. You’d text a guy you knew for answers on a 3 inch flip phone screen and you’d get on AOL voice chat or call them to figure it out. Hence why I became an engineer instead of a full time developer. It was really hard and most people I knew failed out of comp sci and became engineers. It used to be the hardest degree you could pick outside of advanced mathematics. I took years coding classes. HTML and CSS, C++, python and at the end of it you’d barely be able to code a calculator, card game or website and they looked like ****. I was the best web developer in my class and I still had a website that looked like I threw up on the screen because that’s all that the code would allow you to do. Lots of windows lots of boxes lots of squares in general. Everything was square and grids were big. Bright colors and ****** animations. But there were no rules. You could quite literally create anything you wanted and there was nobody to tell you no. I mean there were a dozen websites you could watch the Iraq war and people getting blown up. Crazy **** that doesn’t exist now or only on the dark web. They live streamed people dying and you’d go to school and there’d be some crazy *** video your buddies would show you that would scar you for years. We saw guys go record wars, dudes ******* all sorts of weird stuff, people hurting themselves and everyone had a crazy video and they never got taken down or suppressed. They were just there on Google if you searched for it. Everyone was creating the next big website similar to the AI craze. We didn’t have online Call of Duty you’d have to LAN party so we would build **** with our friends and you’d code all weekend in between halo and drinking at the dorms all weekend. Code all day then party all night and repeat. I was the infrastructure guy and I could build the hosting platform and my buddies would help me code while I did the network and servers. You’d actually have to hand out business cards in public once a business website launched because SEO wasn’t a thing yet. So you had to sell people in person. It was awesome. I wish we could go back.

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  W.R. Schock, QBD (@iontecs_pemf) reported 13 minutes ago

  @eyecewe @hthieblot It was a masterpiece. AOL, spawn of hell, bought out Netscape in 1998 & deliberately destroyed it trying to force people back to hell. Worst decision in internet history.

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  Laura Bowley 🇨🇦 🇮🇱 (@mindsetlaura) reported 15 minutes ago

  @KolotRabbi We had this year's ago with AOL. They would not let us cancel; kept giving us extensions for free. Went on for months.

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  Ary Rosenbaum (@rosenbaumlaw) reported 16 minutes ago

  @DavidMWeissman @FadeAwayMedia well, his creative didn’t help, but WCW was a huge casualty of the AOL-Time Warner merger.

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  RealLifeRyan (@RealLifeRyan_) reported 18 minutes ago

  MySpace, Homestarrunner, Sumbleupon, Kazaa, limewire, various old DBZ and anime sites I’ll never remember the names of, message boards being a big thing, AOL chat rooms, and so much more

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  Mayank Agrawal (@mayankagrawal) reported 23 minutes ago

  Should we need to pay for email? In 2006, AOL and Yahoo announced priority delivery for senders willing to pay somewhere around a penny per message, with the promise that those messages would bypass the spam filter. The diagnosis behind it was correct. Email often breaks because sending is free, and when volume costs nothing, volume becomes the strategy (hello AI outbound!). Everything built afterward (filters, blocklists, sender reputation scores) is an attempt to patch a problem that is fundamentally about economics, and not about technology. Today, the same dynamic plays out on a much larger surface. AI agents can complete forms, take surveys, open accounts, and browse sites at a scale that would have been unimaginable for a spam operation twenty years ago, and most of that activity still registers in company dashboards as ordinary human demand. What I find most encouraging about Proof of Human is that this doesn't require the previous tradeoff. There's no toll, no puzzle, and nothing for a genuine visitor to notice or solve, because verification runs continuously in the background across the whole session rather than at a single checkpoint. When a decision does get made, there's a record behind it that a team can actually inspect, rather than an opaque score they're asked to trust. The email industry spent two decades learning that you can't tax your way to trust, and that authentication works better than obstruction. That lesson is worth carrying into whatever comes next.

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  Robert Goodrich (@RobertG57276928) reported 24 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19. Never had a ln AOL account

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  Humble Student ⚔️ (@jaysinjailagain) reported 25 minutes ago

  @OddStats Nightmarish. I was lucky enough to be sent to a private school and I remember kids just not coming back the following year. They’d tell me on aol instant messenger that their families couldn’t afford it, they were moving, etc… The son of a family friend worked in tech as a twenty something in the late 90’s. I remember he was driving that BMW z3 they had in the Bond movies. Always had expensive clothes, etc…moved back in with his parents. Of course as a kid I had no idea what was going on around me but to endure that as an adult must’ve been reality warping. It explains so much of the positioning around this AI hype. Everyone who endured the dotcom has clearly vowed to never see it again.