AOL outages and service status in Helensburgh, Scotland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Helensburgh, Scotland

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Helensburgh, 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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  Joe HxC (@Thejoehardcore) reported 3 minutes ago

  @xinspiteofx There has never been one message. If there was, there wouldnt be nearly 50 years of people making sounds about unity. Defining fakes now is worse than the dial aol days. Anyone with the internet is a hc influencer. So define hardcore before going forward with anything else.

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  the spirit ruckas truth show 🦉💯💃🏽👻😈🌚🌕 (@UGodmother17972) reported 5 minutes ago

  It my wil money n my benefits money not for U nrehab go away U will never be me nor seee my aol money it not for U hoes go **** your self ***** or get U set nl U up n left for dead.

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  Stereogum (@stereogum) reported 13 minutes ago

  After 71 years, the longstanding mail-order media club Columbia House is shutting down on Sept. 15. Columbia House got its start in 1955 as the Columbia Record Club, a direct-mail marketing program by CBS/Columbia Records. New members were promised a free record for joining, and customers could bypass a trip to the record store by ordering albums to be shipped to them at home. It was such a wildly popular venture that by 1963, it represented 10% of the music retail market. As the club spawned imitators, Columbia set itself apart by licensing titles from other labels, giving members a larger catalog to choose from. In the early 1970s, the name of the club was changed to Columbia House. With its introductory offer of “8 CDs for a penny,” the service remained a powerhouse throughout the late 20th century, peaking at 16 million members in 1996, the same year the Columbia House website went live. In 1991, Sony and Time Warner formed a 50/50 joint venture combining Columbia House with Time Life's home video and music clubs. As the market share for mail-order music clubs declined due to the rise of online and big-box retailers, Sony and AOL Time Warner sold 85% of Columbia House to the Blackstone Group. There were widespread reports of a planned merger with CDNow or Blockbuster Video, but neither came to pass. In 2005, Columbia House was sold to its competitor BMG, and then to JMCK Corp. It rebranded as Direct Brands, shutting down music sales and continuing as a DVD and Blu-ray Disc club. Plans to launch a vinyl record club with Columbia House branding did not materialize.

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  Josh Centrum (@CentrumJosh) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Rajatsoni Calling XRP holders stupid while chasing BTC because it was invented first is hilarious. By that logic we should all still be using AOL and BlackBerrys. Tech history is littered with first movers that got passed by better technology. BTC has had 15+ years to scale and and hasn’t

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  #MedicareForAll #GeneralStrike #DefundCorporations (@LostDiva) reported 17 minutes ago

  @themeasuredtake @hasanthehun Online people. I’ve been online since AOL. The internet never closes.

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  David Stacy (@DaveLStacy) reported 21 minutes ago

  Stripe buying OR for $7B is either AOL/TimeWarner level stupid, or FBMeta buying Instagram level brilliance. No in between.

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  Recon Number 54 (@Recon_Number_54) reported 21 minutes ago

  @NilesSankey The Bungie of my memories was (as you say) a once in a lifetime confluence of people and a particular time in the world. I remember when they were a "keyword" on AOL (before AOL had full Internet access, sort of like a link) and fans were also prevalent on UseNet. This time (and the decade after) was when the fans and the devs had such tight contact that everyone was "in on the joke" when The Webmaster, Disembodied Soul or other online "persona" would rib, tease, or outright insult gamers. Not as if they were family, because they WERE family. It was great while it lasted, but things inevitably change and more and more gamers started considering themselves "customers" and that Bungie should treat them as such ("the customer is always right" mantra for example). The playful and sometimes hardcore "back and forth" went away. The tight connection between the devs and their fans became customer service interactions with consumers. People were told "It's not 2004 anymore" and the fact is that they were right. The era had passed and something new/different had replaced everything. That carefree, brave, willing to take risks, adventurous outlook of a tightly knit team isn't something that can be forced and it isn't likely to survive current-day corporate culture. It's not 1994, 2004, or even 2014 anymore. But it WAS fun!

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  WanderMan (@WanderMan0101) reported 27 minutes ago

  @IronySeeker @Kalshi AOL, Worldcom, Enron, Lehman Brothers: all too big to fail

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  PanoramaDan (@PanoramaDanB) reported 30 minutes ago

  @DrElectronX @RandyWKirk1 Major tech companies pre-dot-com bubble peak (late 1990s–2000): Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, IBM, Oracle, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Dell, HP, AOL, Yahoo, Apple, Amazon, eBay. If you wind the clock forward 10 yrs everyone of these except AOL lives on its own or was merged. My point is that most of the leaders in the tech industry would survive a bubble bust if it happened tomorrow. I saw the bubble coming and moved to cash befire the dot. com bubble, but I was scared out of the market for 10 years and missed the rapid rebound of the tech leaders. Timing a bubble is a fools game. Buy quality companies whose competitive advantages will endure in down times.

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  The Shotty, And Abigail Deltani (@TheShottyStrms) reported 31 minutes ago

  Fax machine: yup Rotary phone: seen, never used Encyclopedia: yup Floppy disk: I was an early 90s kid. Yes. Aol address: never had one but I think my dad did Record player: family had one Film camera: depends. If this is actual movie film, no. If classic roll of film you have to develop? Yes. Mixed tape: had a few. Phone booth: yes. Cursive: man it has been a long time but yes. Check book: yes. Typewriter: yes Dictionary: multiple times before Google was a thing VCR: it was how I watched the original land before time, secret of NIMH, and others. Paper map: yes. Waterbed: once Postcard: multiple times Walkman: wasn't that lucky Phonebook: yes. 17/20