AOL outages and service status in Launceston, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Launceston, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Launceston, 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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  Kyle (@Kyleketsu) reported 7 minutes ago

  can't get into my old aol email despite having both my email and password for login because of their hotdog water 2fa system that requires me to remember a security question i made 25 years ago I HAVE MY PASSWORD, LET ME IN

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  Reiki Momma (@Luminary_Wings) reported 10 minutes ago

  @iH8Meccavellii Exactly. She really messed up AOL public perception with all that damn talking she was doing.

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  George Cheng (@MrGeorgeCheng) reported 12 minutes ago

  AOL had 30M users, and the internet locked down. Then the open web ate it. Anthropic and OpenAI are playing AOL right now. The Fable 5 rug pull just showed every enterprise exactly what it looks like to depend on closed AI. The off switch exists. Someone else holds it. Llama, Mistral, Qwen - they're not "almost as good" anymore. For most enterprise workloads, they're good enough. And they run on your own hardware. Apple MLX + NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops + rapidly improving open weights = the mainframe-to-PC transition, happening in real time. Open-source AI will do to Frontier Labs what the open internet did to AOL. History doesn't always repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. The only question is how long you keep building on someone else's infrastructure before you start owning yours.

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  Joan Q Public (@petuniaof_) reported 13 minutes ago

  @llandoniffirg 19! Never had an AOL address though, never used it.

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  Dhruv (@dhruvakharia) reported 13 minutes ago

  The weirdest AI-era market signal today was not a model launch. It was Wall Street cheering AOL’s new parent. Bending Spoons, the Italian roll-up behind AOL, Vimeo, Eventbrite and other “old internet” brands, ripped on its first trading day. Shares were up as much as 52% and closed about 40% above the IPO price, according to WSJ coverage. That matters because this was supposed to be the era where only frontier AI labs and zero-to-one startups get rewarded. But public markets are sending a different message: if AI makes software cheaper to build, then existing distribution gets more valuable, not less. Users, billing relationships, search traffic, archives, brand memory, and neglected products with real audiences suddenly look like underpriced assets. The winners may not just be the companies inventing new AI tools. They may also be the operators buying tired digital properties and rebuilding them with AI, automation, and brutal cost discipline. Watch for more money to chase AI-enabled roll-ups, not just AI-native apps. The next big tech winners might look less like inventors and more like private-equity-style owners of forgotten internet real estate. Is this just an IPO pop, or the first real sign that AI rewards ownership and distribution more than novelty?

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  belovedeagle (@belovedeagle) reported 20 minutes ago

  @DislykReality @sull1vannolan @thechosenberg The equivalent to what boomers do is if millennials went around insisting AOL is the best internet and anyone who says otherwise is stupid.

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  Lisa Barlow Stan Account (@ucantcallmeVal) reported 23 minutes ago

  It’s true what they say that you care so much less ab **** in your 30’s than your 20’s bc 20’s Valerie would have bullied that pathetic little account into shutting down through pure shame until the only internet they felt safe using was a ******* AOL cd rom from 1996.

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  Kevin Jones (@NomentionofKev) reported 27 minutes ago

  @LexiAIexander Not crazy making, it's by design. AI frustrates the customer & impedes any real change to the account because even canceling a subscription becomes a tour de force with its labyrinthian path to a result. My old cable company has this system which replicates AOL in its last days.

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  Frases do coração! (@coracao_frases) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Vidiyocontexts AOL Instant Messenger To Sign Off Forever After 20 Years. TTY never, AIM :'(

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  Bharat Hegde (@hvbharat) reported 28 minutes ago

  @ThierryBorgeat Are the shareholders and board of cursor stupid to accept it? They’re accepting because they’re also not worth $60 billion in cash. This is like time warner aol merger. Some jokes write themselves..