AOL Outage in Hillingdon, Greater London, England

@sigmasports I’m doing my best guys, bear with me. I’m doing an online chat with AOL online support and have Ask Jeeves fired up in another browser.

The first PlayStation came out, and Macs transitioned to Power PC. AOL is launched. Amazon was founded. Microsoft announces it will no longer sell or support the MS-DOS operating system separately from Microsoft Windows

@KwakuMMNT 112 by default. Jagged Edge were broadcasting to us using 2001 AOL dial up. Horrible signal.

I still have an AOL email address so never question my loyalty

@NW6Rd You've just reminded me my contract is up with my absolutely appalling @SkyUK broadband. It's so slow it's like AOL dial-up

@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!

@neilperkin You'd think they could find a fix. This used to happen with all AOL accounts showing up as 'Virginia' 20 years ago!

CompuServe when I first got online in 1995, MSN Messenger, the very occasional foray into Usenet. Tried AOL, ICQ, a few others. But never enjoyed them. Had both AIM and Yahoo Meseenger But only very rarely used them.

@londongirluk @AOLSupportHelp Still not working 😠

@londongirluk @AOLSupportHelp I'm the same Julie. The app I'm using won't let me sign in

@AOLSupportHelp I’m trying to get into my email password help

@gucksuck People put those warnings there for a reason lmao I was catfishing p**ophiles on aol 7.0 as a 12 yo I know how this **** happens and this ain’t it

@RealWillyBot What a scam man. Ugh... this whole crypto is the worst of humanity. Internet was good back in the AOL days.

This is why I have caught candy crush with the mic on, even though I never gave it permissiins. That's why my calls have been intercepted- and no amount of times changed did my verizon pin get fixed. Or why network was lost. But, figure how many devices have yahoo or aol etc.

@aolmail currently trying to reactivate my Fathers email that you've deactivated with no reason or explanation. Support team have responded & want to speak to him - I have sent his phone number - now what? Please, please help. His email is vital and contains precious memories.

@PeterSchiff @CNBC Let's take that as a valid metaphor - Bitcoin is more like the Internet, which continued to grow, oblivious to AOL or TW. The Internet didn't give a **** about AOL; Bitcoin doesn't give a **** about Coinbase. You are not getting it, Peter... ngmi

@SantiagoAuFund It’s 2000 all over again... Blockchain, EV will thrive but the prices are just completely nuts... it will happen like Amazon stock for some from $6 to $136 and then back to $6 again and for others like AOL the bubble will just explode and never recover...

TIL wtf splittercore is. I may just be an old man but I don't find it impressive to just add beats to my old AOL dial up connection being established.

@muh_thoughts @CawthornforNC And don’t you remember DS AOL crying about the poor children at the fence with a parking lot on the other side. Why doesn’t take about 100 of those kids now. It’s there mess.

@cryptonym @UWmixradio @souljaboy All metaphors fail in some way. Here's another one: Bitcoin is tcp/ip, not AOL. We are used to things especially in tech slowly being made obsolete by newer, better stuff. You don't want that with money for a lot of reasons.

@dburbach @PeterDombrowsk6 @lindsaypcohn (This was the same time that the AOL style CD course was approved as an "emergency" measure for the "interim," which turned out to be over 15 years, as the dept chairs warned it would be.)