AOL outages and service status in Lerwick, Scotland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Lerwick, Scotland

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Lerwick, Scotland 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

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  Reboticon (@Reboticant) reported 4 minutes ago

  @icpolicy @kitten_beloved @WomanCorn man its like aol in the old days I would get myself into a lot of trouble

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  Brian Cohen (@inthepixels) reported 6 minutes ago

  23. **Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (2008)** — Lost over $18.5 billion nominally, equivalent to over **$20.0 billion** today due to global credit declines and equity write-downs. 24. **Alcatel (2001)** — Suffered massive merger-related write-downs and market destruction during the telecom equipment collapse, crossing the **$20.0 billion** inflation-adjusted threshold. 25. **Swiss Re (2008)** — Incurred tens of billions in asset impairments and structured credit losses during the financial crisis, placing its real-loss event at the **$20.0 billion** inflation-adjusted mark. The Three Eras of Corporate Destruction What stands out is how concentrated these losses are. The Dot-Com and Telecom Collapse (2000–2002) The telecom bubble produced the single greatest concentration of corporate losses ever observed. AOL Time Warner, JDS Uniphase, Qwest, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Vivendi, Alcatel, and NTT all appear on the list. Trillions of dollars in market value evaporated as companies wrote down acquisitions, fiber networks, wireless licenses, and internet-related assets purchased at bubble-era valuations. The Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Credit Suisse, Swiss Re, and Mitsubishi UFJ all suffered enormous losses as mortgage securities, derivatives, and structured credit markets collapsed. Unlike many dot-com write-downs, these losses reflected real capital destruction that threatened the stability of the global financial system. Industry-Specific Collapses General Motors appears three separate times on the list, highlighting decades of structural challenges within the auto industry. United Airlines reflects the severe financial strain associated with bankruptcy and restructuring. Nakheel demonstrates how quickly even seemingly unstoppable real-estate booms can reverse. The Half-Trillion-Dollar Club The four largest losses alone account for nearly $470 billion in inflation-adjusted value destruction: * **AOL Time Warner (2002):** ~$143 billion * **AIG (2008):** ~$128 billion * **JDS Uniphase (2001):** ~$104 billion * **Fannie Mae (2009):** ~$94 billion Combined, these four annual losses destroyed more value than the current market capitalization of many of the world's largest public companies. The lesson from this ranking is simple: the biggest corporate losses rarely occur because a company has a bad quarter or even a bad year. They happen when an entire narrative breaks—whether it is internet mania, telecom euphoria, housing prices that supposedly never fall, or financial engineering that appears risk-free until suddenly it isn't.

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  Ricky "The Dragon" Rubinowitz 🇮🇱🇺🇸 (@JimmyChonga454) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Rorothats70s @D4Pats12 @uscfan981 Austin wasn't the reason why WCW ended It was Money Laundering AOL Time Warner execs who charged WCW 10 times the standard on production costs on everything with affiliated & linked companies They didn't want wrestling on their network. It was a choice If TNA can be around for this long & lose more money than any other promotion in history, then you can clearly see that's a choice also.

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  Scott Jackson (@Ausky66) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ThrillaRilla369 Crap, mine was AOL

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  @darrentrank (@darrentrank) reported 12 minutes ago

  @EL444KR @deesnider I'm not from the US so I never used AOL

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  Echo6Charlie (@Echo6Golf) reported 14 minutes ago

  Anyone with dial up Internet can Google or AOL this and find out in an hour or so, that you are full of ****. You have come down with a diarea of the brain saturation and your brain is spilling ****.

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  Eric Amell (@eric_amell) reported 15 minutes ago

  @llandoniffirg 18, unless you count a word processor typewriter as a typewriter then 19. I purposefully never had an AOL account. I remember when the AO-HELLERS first came online back before the web; the days of Archie, ELM, Veronica, and chat boards. I'd have added BBS to the list though.

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  @darrentrank (@darrentrank) reported 17 minutes ago

  @EL444KR @deesnider AOL Airways was crap

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  Hojo (@Hwrdfrnd) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ThrillaRilla369 I met an older woman 2 years ago that was still paying for AOL service.

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  Swats24 (@swats24) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TheGrillGeek I never had AOL but a different version of online messenger. Never owned a waterbed but have experienced it. I never owned a record player but seen it in action. Does that give me 19 or brings down my score to 16? Also, I still use a checkbook 👵