AOL outages and service status in Newport, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Newport, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Newport, 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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  TheWizard (@TheRealWizar) reported 3 minutes ago

  AOL was the first time most people used the internet back in the 90s. Using a phone line and dialing up the service meant you were connecting to the world, it felt like a magical experience. Hearing 'You got mail' and your AIM notifications going off was the first dopamine hit for people being addicted to social platforms - but it was different. You were not online for long durations - usually, just to login for 5 - 15 minutes to check your messages, read some quick news, and log off. Mom had to use the phone after all and you couldn't stay on all day. Today's internet is an always on experience, making it hard for people to disconnect and touch grass / hang out with family and friends.

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  Rhiyddun (@rhiyddun) reported 5 minutes ago

  @qaggnews @ColonelTowner @MarkEDeschaine True, back then the community was a lot smaller and better connected in a way, it was just us computer geeks, after all, just getting connected to the internet was difficult until Aol and Bix. I helped bring cable modems and digital set top boxes to the public but that wasn't until mid 90s. Before then, a fast connection was a 44.1Mb T3 at work, or a blazing 128kb from home, you could with some trouble get a T1... A fast CPU ran faster than 2MHz... (not GHz) The fastest link, mid 80s the Boston globe could get going from one side of town to the other was a T2 microwave link, 6Mb, so until Bill Gates started selling pc's to anyone, it was a close and honest community, not without the odd ones, but anti social was the 'uunet' red line I guess. How long did the gets() vulnerability remain unexploited? Years. People didn't break into other systems as a usual thing. That was 40 years ago though and things just aren't the same. The Arduino crowd strikes me as having some of the hobbyist sort of enthusiasm you'd see back then.

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  Carlos Ferrero (@IHave3Chickens) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I never had an AOL address. All the rest? Yep.

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  Jebornik 🇺🇸 ✝️ (@Jebornik) reported 9 minutes ago

  @disagreebutter Never had an aol address

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  Who's This Guy? (@WhosThisGuy83) reported 9 minutes ago

  @klove0518 19, never had an AOL account, I feel like a failure now.

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  Dani Apple (@danipavlosky) reported 10 minutes ago

  So just pointing out I thought the "cop" from Newark was unqualified as a human, some vice principal woman didn't support the students at all for being intimdiated (i was a victim + friend with the website maker/distreibutor on AOL a friendly guy everyone knew) but no one

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  Ren Felton (@renxist) reported 12 minutes ago

  @QueenHasSpoken_ @idpicciotto @VividProwess Yes, AOL message boards existed. Nobody said the Internet didn’t. The point is that comparing the fragmented online forums of 2001 to today’s algorithmic mass social media ecosystem is absurd. And “I was online and don’t remember seeing criticism of Bush” still isn’t evidence that criticism didn’t exist. Your AOL login wasn’t a representative sample of American public opinion.

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  perry⭐️🪽 (@truebluedyke) reported 15 minutes ago

  them talking in aol chatrooms and sending each other gore sites and live link **** and being freaky gore lovers together 🫡🫡🫡🫡

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  6thGenFlCracker (@KevBro239) reported 15 minutes ago

  @sceptic100 Holy crap! Y’all are in congress? I gotta stop getting my news from my aol dial-up.

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  Philip Huff (@Philip_Huff) reported 16 minutes ago

  Gen Z has it easy; never had to use Internet Explorer and AOL.