AOL outages and service status in Long Stratton, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Long Stratton, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Long Stratton, 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 Near Long Stratton, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Long Stratton and nearby locations:

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  𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 (@LancePaters1) reported 34 minutes ago from Brundall, England

  @BinnieGlen @alistaircoleman There is a walled garden service (Kwangmyong/光明) available to NK citizens,like a slightly more creepy AOL. Proper internet is for foreigners & researchers only. Taking notes also stops people fiddling with phones in meetings,which is an execution offence in his view,and mine.

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Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jean Ames (@AmesJean6) reported 1 minute ago

  I spent 13 years at Southern Bell which became Bell South. Then the government took over and destroyed it. They were forced to rent their network to rivals like HBO and AOL. I sent the bills. 6 years at Motorola. After 9/11 40k of us were laid off.

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  f_marzotto (@f_marzotto) reported 6 minutes ago

  $BSP is a masterpiece. Just not of innovation. Working in Big Tech, you get used to seeing what actual scale and innovation look like. So watching Italy crown Bending Spoons as its great tech champion - a team that buys beloved, declining brands like AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, and Meetup to "revive" them - has been fascinating. Their $18 billion IPO is largely deserved: they are exceptional operators. They make neglected software fast and profitable. The machine works. But there are two things you can do to a fading product. You can make it modern and profitable again - or you can make it win again, attracting new people who genuinely love it. Bending Spoons does the first brilliantly. The second, almost never. Their own SEC prospectus reveals the trick. Organic growth was 13% last year, and just 6% last quarter. Net revenue retention is 94%, meaning each cohort of users is worth less a year later, even after aggressive price hikes. This isn't a base being won back; it's a base leaking quietly, taxed harder on the way out. This is exactly why comparing them to Big Tech is so revealing. Picture $META putting WhatsApp or Instagram behind a paywall tomorrow. There would be a global uproar. Meta has the most locked-in audience on Earth, yet they refuse to charge them. Why? Because they are still chasing growth. Bending Spoons charges its captive audiences precisely because it has no growth left to protect. They execute the exact playbook that would make Meta a supervillain, but on smaller apps with weaker exits - and we call it genius. The reviled villain treats its users better than the celebrated innovator. A true maker earns its price by building something genuinely better; you pay because you want to stay. Bending Spoons didn't build these products; braver people did. They buy them when they are loved and hard to quit, and turn them into extraction machines. They are professional converters of makers into takers. Charging people because they want to stay makes everyone richer. Charging them because they can't leave just moves money from users to shareholders. One is a gain for the world. The other is a transfer. And every switch they flip is one more bill on people already drowning in subscriptions, asked to pay again for what they once had free. Of course, the business works. Rent extraction is the safest business on earth: low risk, fast payback, nothing to invent. But compare that to actual innovation. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, he took real risk on things that didn't exist yet: Tesla forced open the EV industry, SpaceX made rockets reusable, and each time the rest of the world had to follow. He earned his success by growing the pie; Bending Spoons pours the same ingenuity into nag screens and cancellation mazes, carving up a pie someone else baked. Let's not call a toll booth a cathedral. Celebrate rent-collection as innovation, and we teach our best makers to optimize the past instead of building the future.

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  The Psycho Analyst (@TheRealBirnbaum) reported 8 minutes ago

  I said it again and again and again: the current LLMs are equivalent to the dialup of dotcom era. Back then we were effectively paying a software license for AOL. Today, the idea of paying to use the Internet is absolutely absurd. My gut tells me there’s a place for the frontier models. But I don’t see it being in the hands of every consumer when the technology is essentially a commodity. I think the frontier models have a legitimate business that’s going to be much smaller than the market currently prices them at. I also see people totally misunderstand the value proposition for AI. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic are needed to sustain the AI boom. At worst there’s an air gap. Doesn’t matter if it’s open source or not—same compute is needed. And if the models aren’t as good, then ChatGPT and Claude are needed.

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  $XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported 8 minutes ago

  This is exactly the kind of infrastructure-level integration that proves we’re past the build phase 👀 Ripple successfully tested as a blockchain enhancer for the SWIFT network (Hyperledger + ISO 20022) back in June 2025, and now it’s moving toward actual integration. Remember when the internet went from heavy build-out to mass adoption in 1998? I was an AOL shareholder and worked at UUNET selling the pipes. The parallels with XRP and the Internet of Value today are identical — regulatory clarity + real infrastructure hooks = adoption phase. We’re entering the Green Zone. 🍻

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  NipNapShite (@NipNapShite) reported 8 minutes ago

  @keithapearson Still very much on aol Might have been their first customer 🤪

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  John Drouin (@John_Drew65) reported 9 minutes ago

  @SarahSevans2000 18, never had an AOL address or a waterbed

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  Sloppy Barris (@sloppybarris) reported 9 minutes ago

  If you wanna know more you can **** all the way off (to one of my x-rays). I leave the pii on most of the time. AOL keyword: spine, maybe. Or ask me anything!

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  🦅 Lori 🕊⚖ (@Avaldrv) reported 11 minutes ago

  @505Cali2 I've been saying this online since the chat rooms way back on AOL. The Christians used to say I was listening to the devil. Their self-righteousness gave me a bad impression of Christians. I consider myself a follower of Christ's teachings, not a follower of a blood sacrifice.

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  Average Joe (@average_joe_x2) reported 12 minutes ago

  @celestineia Met a bunch of people in one of my AOL chat group years ago, never again

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  grams de champ (@gramsdidit) reported 13 minutes ago

  @JeffJSays in 1997 i had our old clunker computer hidden in my closet with extension cord under the carpet around the bed to power so i could chat with friends on AOL dialup and play roller coaster tycoon after folks went to bed, never got caught. these kids got it easy