AOL outages and service status in New York, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in New York, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in New York, 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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  Sunny Ray (@sunnyray) reported 7 minutes ago

  Scott Hardy was on the internet before the web existed. He joined AOL in 1995 in tech support and rode it from 100,000 subscribers to over 30 million, working his way up to IT Operations Manager running networks for Arizona. Then the dot-com bubble burst and he was loading cargo at Delta for fifteen dollars an hour. He rebuilt through Sprint Nextel, eTelecare, and Limelight Networks, and in 2008, in the middle of a financial crisis, he founded Top Class Actions on one brutal statistic: roughly 95 percent of consumer class action settlements go unclaimed. TCA became the world's most popular site for class action website. Then he went full stack. When Arizona became the first state to allow non-lawyer ownership of law firms, Scott, a non-lawyer, co-founded LegaFi Law in 2022 to represent the plaintiffs his site was already finding. In 2024 he launched Trimaxian, a litigation funding syndicate that lets accredited investors and family offices back class actions.

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  Nick Terranova (@nt3259) reported 7 minutes ago

  @AOL I have my email address for a very long Tim my device changed and doesn’t have the password please help

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  Kat (@kathy982141) reported 8 minutes ago

  The military, being the largest, corporation to exist, so to speak, runs closely with nexr to no errors. Trucking, the largest logistical corpopation, more errors than old aol dial-up. This Can Be Fix by the right people.

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  wolfie (@Wolfie89Wolfie) reported 13 minutes ago

  @gregjoz @Ford wtf is ford doing? they also going to use AOL for for the UI?

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  The Doge Triangle (@TriangleDoge) reported 13 minutes ago

  @3YearLetterman We did, you just had to use old style crap bulletin boards on platforms like AOL lol

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  William Parker (@wmprkr) reported 16 minutes ago

  @0xpwnie I think I was in 5th grade. Having internet in your house was still a rare thing and it was dial-up if it was. America Online. Everyone I knew used AOL discs as coasters for their Coca-Cola or whatever they drank. First computer was a Macintosh Performa 475. The webs speed was garbage back then, but we didn't have anything to compare it to. Social media wasn't a thing, it was forums and IRC. But man every single website was an amazing journey into a different realm. They called it the Summer that never ended, and boy lemme tell ya if you were there at that time, you'd give up all this fast web **** for a stroll down memory lane in a heartbeat.

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  ArudhiJ (@ArudhiJ) reported 16 minutes ago

  @ehdande Says a real estate developer🧐 Since when did you hear matatu owners support a light rail transport system! AOL

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  Heath Weaver (@heathweaver) reported 17 minutes ago

  @qlypai For @twigl_it I don't think of it as a wrapper around a frontier model, but I guess you could say that. In my view, all frontier models will follow the path of AOL. It's moving rapidly along the same trajectory. AOL mail, chat were all massively popular; AOL's valuation went to the moon, etc. But then dedicated tools came in, and against the single focus, AOL couldn't compete. Once SpaceX launches space-based datacenters along with Starlink, the game will be up. My bet is that the harness is where the value is at. I have really zero loyalty to a particular model; I just want the highest raw intelligence with the ability to throttle down for work that doesn't need it. It's not even clear to me what Anthropic or OpenAI think is actually going to happen. I am sure they can see from their own metrics that like 95% of users are just using it as a glorified search engine. The mass does not care at all about the companies and will use whatever is best and free (i.e., ad-supported). In the long run, Google will likely win. So a true wrapper, like simply putting the API with a bit of context, will become irrelevant to higher levels of intelligence, but I don't think the frontier models can ever win against a superior harness on a really specific proprietary data pool. I am betting that people would rather have more control over their own data, be able to better direct context, and be able to use the best-performing self-healing skills with tools with the most intelligent model that is out there.

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  The_IT_POV (@groundserver) reported 19 minutes ago

  GOODBYE in the AOL voice. If our allie was not so Anti-American, it would be less of an issue.

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  Ugam Kamat (@ugamkamat) reported 20 minutes ago

  Before the AI kings, there was another king. His story tells you exactly how AI race ends. In the 90s, AOL was the internet. If you wanted to go online, you went through AOL. Their CDs were in every mailbox in America. At their peak they were worth more than Disney, Ford and Boeing combined. They even bought Time Warner, the biggest media empire on earth, like it was a snack. Then the internet became a utility. It moved to the companies holding the infra, the telecom guys. And AOL's birthright on the internet vanished. The pipe owners made real money, AT&T still makes billions every year, but at utility margins. The crazy money showed up at the application layer in the next decade. Google, Amazon, Netflix. They didn't own the internet. They just paid for it like everyone else and built the best service on top. The bottom layer was open to anyone at a price, so the top layer went to whoever served the customer best. No birthright. Just service. Now let's look at AI. Today the frontier labs stand where AOL stood in the late 90s. They own the models, they own the access, they are the most valuable companies of this era. But intelligence is already becoming a utility with open weights. The model is turning into the pipe, and the pipe will move to whoever hosts it cheapest. Better chips, cheaper power, data centers next to geothermal plants or up in orbit. Good business, real money, but utility margins. And again, the crazy money will show up one layer above, again. Apps built on open intelligence, paying for it like everyone pays for internet, winning because they serve the customer best. Nobody has a birthright there. Not even the labs. They can compete for it, with everyone else at a level playing field. The internet made AOL the king and then made the internet free. AI is about to do the same thing to its kings.