AOL Outage in Loughton, Essex, 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.

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!

@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.

@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

@writerwrites I’m so stressed too! I wish I could give you a giant hug. Why can’t more people be like us ! l kid but man sometimes the internet is too much. Let’s bring back Oregon trail and AOL. Being informed is good but 24 hour news IMHO is bad.

I became addicted to the Internet in January of 1995. Already then people were cursing AOL, Compuserve, etc. for making it easier to connect, and therefore dumbing down discussions.

@revolutioneyed **** do you remember the aol chatrooms?

Outlook, aol, yahoo, gmail, I’ve maxed out my phone number. What’s next reputable email service? Ideas?

@AOLSupportHelp Too bad it won't get rid of those fraudulent ads for Lifelike teddy dog lucky that are clearly videos of a real dog and not the stuffed animal you'd get if you ordered that thing.

@KamalaHarris @JoeBiden When you debate Pence, do your homework on the HIV epidemic in Indiana under Pence. Plus the horrible statistics of the state. 30k kids in foster care. Worst teacher pay in US. Health metrics abysmal. Air & H2O quality. Carrier jobs. His AOL acct.

@edmsjupiter OK so I was trying to log on and get rid of those videos and you need a Google account to login now and AOL doesn’t recognize my email so they’re on YouTube forever💀

man I havent been able to formally rp since the death of AOL and later liveJournal. unless you count the endless supply of submissive gamer boys on steam who I erp anyways. feels bad man

@SpectacOptical Interesting. Maybe it was just an option you passed by on AOL? They had a few other games, but I never got into them

@danson602 @AOLSupportHelp I'm getting the same error message too ! This is now three hours later than your issue so there does seem to be a problem with their email.