AOL Outage in New Southgate, Greater London, England

When it first arrived — and I made a blog there within the first two months of its public existence — @tumblr was the near perfect blogging platform. Then AOL destroyed it. Now it’s a horrible jail where I can’t get rid of this dumb screen. Thanks @automatic.

The first PlayStation came out, and Macs transitioned to Power PC. AOL is launched. Amazon was founded. Microsoft announces it will no longer sell or support the MS-DOS operating system separately from Microsoft Windows

@KwakuMMNT 112 by default. Jagged Edge were broadcasting to us using 2001 AOL dial up. Horrible signal.

@NW6Rd You've just reminded me my contract is up with my absolutely appalling @SkyUK broadband. It's so slow it's like AOL dial-up

AGREED! Every kid except me had nice shiny internet...we were stuck with that shitty AOL dialup that we were only allowed to use to play Cartoon Network games on if we were good 🥴

@AOLSupportHelp We have been going around in circles and the reason I’ve tweeted my issue is I can’t get anywhere because we’ve done all the security Q’s and still 0 - I need to speak with a human being.....

@aolmail I’ve been attempting to retrieve my wife’s AOL password for the past 10 or more emails with your supposed email support. Its merry go round getting nowhere. Please assist.

@AOL unable to sign into email for last week. No response from customer services. No one to talk to either😡😡Absolute joke. Important emails that I cannot access. AOL can you please get on to this. Beyond frustrating.

@reece_dinsdale The other two are "Welcome to AOL: you're connected!" and "Goodbye...th-that's it." Damn I need to put these on my new laptop!

@neilperkin You'd think they could find a fix. This used to happen with all AOL accounts showing up as 'Virginia' 20 years ago!

CompuServe when I first got online in 1995, MSN Messenger, the very occasional foray into Usenet. Tried AOL, ICQ, a few others. But never enjoyed them. Had both AIM and Yahoo Meseenger But only very rarely used them.

@teleject @meyerweb It kinda does though... With MSN Explorer (yes that was a thing in 2001, competing with AOL) we enabled "toast notifications" and the name was because "the little thing popped like the toast on the screensavers." Real toast never does that. It sits there. It sometimes Burns.

@londongirluk @AOLSupportHelp Still not working 😠

@londongirluk @AOLSupportHelp I'm the same Julie. The app I'm using won't let me sign in

@1womanworkforce If he’s working from the aol ap I would delete it and reload. We had a problem with aol a while ago. The old Ap wasn’t working. Change the password just in case on your web version.

I was told by a rep ref. AOL: "it's a very old platform.." as if that was an excuse. If it doesn't work, they shouldn't take my money. @TalkTalk is a useless outfit too. I was called for months by fake Indian call centres after their data hack. My home internet sucks. @AOL @Ofcom

Utterly useless service from AOL/Yahoo/TalkTalk yet again following my complaint reference the breakdown/failure of their systems. So irritating when you pay for a service and don't get it. I was told by a rep ref. AOL: "it's a very old platform.." as if that was an excuse. @AOL

@kearley_steve @KingRezizt Sounds crazy, I know, but work on M.S. led me to help start AOL Local News in ‘97 - kinda hoping inspiration will strike again. And really hoping my brain still works at 60!🤞🙃

One of my worst takes of the last decade was that Facebook would end up being (and dying like) AOL as it tried to clone everything and keep people in the garden What I got wrong was I thought users would grow up (and out) of that garden I missed the network lock-in

@gucksuck People put those warnings there for a reason lmao I was catfishing p**ophiles on aol 7.0 as a 12 yo I know how this **** happens and this ain’t it

@RealWillyBot What a scam man. Ugh... this whole crypto is the worst of humanity. Internet was good back in the AOL days.

This is why I have caught candy crush with the mic on, even though I never gave it permissiins. That's why my calls have been intercepted- and no amount of times changed did my verizon pin get fixed. Or why network was lost. But, figure how many devices have yahoo or aol etc.

@aolmail currently trying to reactivate my Fathers email that you've deactivated with no reason or explanation. Support team have responded & want to speak to him - I have sent his phone number - now what? Please, please help. His email is vital and contains precious memories.

@PeterSchiff @CNBC Let's take that as a valid metaphor - Bitcoin is more like the Internet, which continued to grow, oblivious to AOL or TW. The Internet didn't give a **** about AOL; Bitcoin doesn't give a **** about Coinbase. You are not getting it, Peter... ngmi

@SantiagoAuFund It’s 2000 all over again... Blockchain, EV will thrive but the prices are just completely nuts... it will happen like Amazon stock for some from $6 to $136 and then back to $6 again and for others like AOL the bubble will just explode and never recover...

TIL wtf splittercore is. I may just be an old man but I don't find it impressive to just add beats to my old AOL dial up connection being established.

@muh_thoughts @CawthornforNC And don’t you remember DS AOL crying about the poor children at the fence with a parking lot on the other side. Why doesn’t take about 100 of those kids now. It’s there mess.