AOL outages and service status in Newtown, Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Newtown, Wales

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Newtown, Wales 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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  bunnyb0y (@bunnyb0y_Live) reported 2 minutes ago

  @jrade762 @exQUIZitely The customer (you) paid for your phone line + either the hourly/monthly rate to AOL. Since connecting meant you couldn't use your phone for calls many people ended up getting a 2nd phone line (more $ to Ma Bell) until DSL lines came into play.

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  Ron Duncan ✝️ (@RonDuncan7) reported 2 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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  Business Nerd (@Business_Nerd_) reported 3 minutes ago

  Marc Andreessen on the exact moment the Internet changed forever: "There are two Internets," Marc explains. "There's the Internet that existed before 1993 and the Internet that existed after 1993." Before 1993, the Internet was funded by the National Science Foundation as an academic and research network. Commercial activity was strictly prohibited under what was called the acceptable use policy. The result was something the people who lived through it still describe in utopian terms. @pmarca describes it like this: "People who were on the Internet before 1993 often describe it in utopian terms because it literally was like you take the whatever million smartest people in the world and you put them on a network together with like no commercial activity, no advertising, no nothing, just the million smartest people in the world. And you just like let them talk to each other. And it's just like amazing." He singles out Usenet, the old messaging system, as the centerpiece of that world: "The discussions on Usenet were just like absolutely spectacular… It was like the most pure, clean intellectual, like vibrant space sense, like, I don't know, Athens in 500 BC. It was just like this amazing phenomenon." Then AOL connected. In September 1993, AOL plugged its million or two million subscribers. Normal people into the Internet for the first time. That moment got a name: eternal September. It was the day the Internet stopped being an ivory tower and became a mainstream consumer thing. The "eternal" part is its own joke. Marc explains: "Concept of eternal September literally was, it was like when every new wave of college graduates graduated and got their first job and then went online. So September is when the new crop of Internet users showed up… So the September effect didn't just happen once. It like happened over and over and over and over and over again. And every cycle of Internet user would basically be like, oh my God, this is great. But like, it's all going to get ruined in September." The Internet we live in today is the result of roughly 30 of those Septembers stacked on top of each other. Marc is careful to say he's pro that shift. He was on the side of opening it up, allowing commerce, allowing advertising, connecting everyone. But he doesn't pretend the trade-off wasn't real. You can't take a network of the smartest million people on earth, connect it to everyone, and expect the texture of the conversation to survive. The lesson sits underneath the story. Every great network has a pre-commercial phase that the early users remember as paradise, and a post-commercial phase that actually changes the world. Both are real. You don't get the second without giving up the first.

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  RichardJK (@RichardJKPE) reported 3 minutes ago

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

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  @SHEPMJS (@shepmjs) reported 4 minutes ago

  More begrudging. MSM still not commenting: AOL: "Gas prices are falling but will the trend continue" Consumer News:" When it comes to gas prices, there's good news and bad news"

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  Liberty Info (@libertyinfo_job) reported 5 minutes ago

  @DowdEdward Lots of skepticism on your feed. Think the skeptics have looked at Microsoft with products worse than they were 10 years ago. Wall Street hype in search of fees exists, remember Merrill Lynch pushing AOL? Too bad government "investment" doesn't get the same scrutiny.

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  Wrestlefish (@TheWrestleFish) reported 6 minutes ago

  There is no way to actually prove how much wcw made or lost time warner/aol/Turner proactively dumped other company divisions debts into the company they were gaming the system. You do not Cancel your number 1 or two entertainment asset that you are selling and not violate fiduciary duty.

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  Jeff Opdyke (jeffo) (@DigitalRoamad) reported 9 minutes ago

  All the SpaceX/Elon fanboys are upset that I said SpaceX is a wildly overvalued IPO and that at some point the share price will crater... and that is when you buy. But I hear all kinds of jibber-jabber about what SpaceX does and is and whatever. It's all the same words, just in a different order that defined the last 30 years of tech investing... and I've been around for all of it as a financial writer. So, here's a list of every IPO that was the biggest/most relevant of its time and what came of it: Netscape (1995): The company that lit the dot-com fuse. briefly dominated the internet browser market before Microsoft crushed it by giving away a competing product for free. limped into AOL's arms at a fraction of its peak value. Yahoo (1996): A $13 IPO that became a $110 billion fever dream at the peak of the bubble, then collapsed 93% to $8, spent a decade mismanaging itself into irrelevance, turned down a $44/share Microsoft buyout offer when it was already dying, and was finally sold to Verizon for parts in 2017. Amazon (1997): Went public at $18, rode the bubble to $113, crashed 94% to $6, then methodically became the most dominant retail and cloud computing empire in history. theglobe dot com (1998): Exploded 600% on its first trading day on pure mania with no real business model, and was bankrupt and forgotten within three years. VA Linux (1999): Holds the all-time record for the largest single-day IPO pop — up 700% — on just $17.8 million in annual revenue, and spent the next 15 years slowly selling itself off for scraps at a 90%+ discount to its opening-day price. Google (2004): The rare IPO that was actually priced like a real business, debuted into post-bubble investor skepticism, and rewarded anyone who held it with a 7,500%+ return over 20 years. Facebook/Meta (2012): Priced at $104 billion with a broken mobile strategy, immediately cratered 54% in under four months to $17 as investors fled, then finally cracked the mobile monetization code and turned a humiliating IPO into a 1,300%+ return for anyone who didn't panic. Snap (2017): Sold non-voting shares in a money-losing company with decelerating growth at 25x revenue, popped on day one, collapsed 75% within two years, and now nearly a decade later an IPO investor has still lost more than half their money. Uber (2019): Private market fantasies priced this one at $120 billion, the public market immediately said "no" and sent it below its $45 IPO price on day one, the stock bled another 25% in four months, and it took years of grinding toward actual profitability before the stock finally vindicated long-suffering holders. Alibaba (2014): Legit one of the greatest businesses in the world at IPO, rode to $300, then the Chinese government decided Jack Ma needed to be humbled, and a decade after its record-breaking debut the stock still trades below its first-day opening price. I am NOT saying that SpaceX is a bad company. I am saying SpaceX IPO is stupidly valued by an excessively greedy Wall Street trying to extract as much wealth as possible in this latest tech hype period. SpaceX will go on to great things one day ... but at 90x sales, the shares are destined for a deep, deep enema-like cleansing at some point. Extremely rich valuations never last. The history above tells you the trajectory.

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  pratik (@guru30989) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Gurudev @ArtofLiving @SPIEF Why harassing people to join paid sessions? Let people join by choice and not by force....trust your product boss... Cawards.... I will file police complaint against AOL

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  pancakes (@Pancakes_556) reported 20 minutes ago

  @mxMXRXSE Isn't that rhe aol video where he looks up **** like "mickey and Donald porn" (not exactly that but stupid **** like that) then its like "*********** and get away with it" or some bs. Just like random inane searches nonstop