AOL Outage in Hillingdon, Greater London, England

@Miss_Snuffy Self pity finds many friends online from the earliest days of community forums up to today's toxic social media. "Share your support" we used to say at AOL and people did and lots was valuable, but a deep streak of 'alternative truth' bedded down there too to solicit attention.

AOL would never go down. Is AOL still a thing?

@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

i love cartoon network and adult swim so much but seeing how it gets absolutely ****** by every merger, AOL, AT&T & now Discovery its sad. adult swim’s illusion that its not corporate and run by normal people gets harder to envision over time and its not their fault

@AreaMan20410331 The olds at least might believe the whole thing was created by internet evil doers. I always knew AOL would get me in trouble one day.

I found the password for an old AOL email of mine on a notecard. I tried but was unable to sign in to AOL using that password and username. Although after clicking "forgot my password" and verifying my identity, AOL resurrected this email account from the dead. Whoa!

@yungcontent Yo 100%. Picking random avatars going into weird rooms having conversations with total strangers about random ****. It’s old school aol chat rooms on steroids.

@KaylaChowShow Hold on let me hang up this cordless phone and dial up the internet. Maybe just maybe I can see if aol will work today.

@Drej_Hart @RageGoldenEagle Yeah I tried doing that for a couple years but it was probably the worst experience for me. That's why I don't do it anymore. Lol, AOL Instant Messenger is nuts man, people used to be in like chatrooms and stuff right? That must've been pretty cool.

Can we talk about how millennials literally try to gate keep the internet…”you never experienced dial up” “you didn’t have an AOL” “I bet you don’t even know what this is” *holds up a landline*? Also they get so mad over it to 😭

@Sunscreen_cake @IOHK_Charles I was banned from AOL in like 1999 for saying ****.

@LouisatheLast Anonymity is so integral to this, too. If AOL and LJ had had real name policies, we never would have had the opportunity to grow as people bc we'd forever be known as that kid who thought libertarianism sounded good on paper.

As we learn about the new Colin Powell Fellowship in Leadership & Public Service at the US State Department, let us bow our heads in memory of all his State Department emails from his private AOL email address, which he refused to provide to the government after he left office.