AOL outages and service status in Finchley, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Finchley, England

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AOL Issues Reports Near Finchley, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Finchley and nearby locations:

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  Robbo (@sjr66qpr) reported 7 minutes ago from Richmond, England

  @londongirluk @AOLSupportHelp Still not working 😠

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  John Jansen (@thejohnjansen) reported 8 minutes ago from Camden Town, England

  @teleject @meyerweb It kinda does though... With MSN Explorer (yes that was a thing in 2001, competing with AOL) we enabled "toast notifications" and the name was because "the little thing popped like the toast on the screensavers." Real toast never does that. It sits there. It sometimes Burns.

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  Alan Walker (@ahwpgapro) reported 10 minutes ago from Loughton, England

  @AOLSupportHelp We have been going around in circles and the reason I’ve tweeted my issue is I can’t get anywhere because we’ve done all the security Q’s and still 0 - I need to speak with a human being.....

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  Mike Yardley (@YardleyShooting) reported 11 minutes ago from City of London, England

  I was told by a rep ref. AOL: "it's a very old platform.." as if that was an excuse. If it doesn't work, they shouldn't take my money. @TalkTalk is a useless outfit too. I was called for months by fake Indian call centres after their data hack. My home internet sucks. @AOL @Ofcom

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  Sarah Pilates (@sarahpilates) reported 11 minutes ago from Camden Town, England

  @1womanworkforce If he’s working from the aol ap I would delete it and reload. We had a problem with aol a while ago. The old Ap wasn’t working. Change the password just in case on your web version.

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  Mic Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) reported 12 minutes ago from Poplar, England

  When it first arrived — and I made a blog there within the first two months of its public existence — @tumblr was the near perfect blogging platform. Then AOL destroyed it. Now it’s a horrible jail where I can’t get rid of this dumb screen. Thanks @automatic.

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  Patti Fordyce (@pattif21) reported 14 minutes ago from Kensington, England

  @JackReganUK Even older than you: never had a MySpace account or zn AOL email address

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  Orrin Edenfield, an 🇺🇸 living in 🇬🇧 (@OrrinEdenfield) reported 15 minutes ago from Eltham, England

  @benjedwards school library had a dial-up modem (probably 9600 baud) to ISP through school district. At home was local ISP as AOL/Compuserve/etc. never had local numbers for me.

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  James Freund (@jayfreund) reported 16 minutes ago from Poplar, England

  @AOLSupportHelp hi there having trouble accessing my emails at the moment , I’ve tried to reset my password and it won’t allow me to , could you help?

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  Lorraine King (@lorrainemking) reported 28 minutes ago from Brentford, England

  @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

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  Doug (@dougmortonagain) reported 29 minutes ago from Ealing, England

  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

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  Niamh Grimes (@NiamhGrimes4) reported 34 minutes ago from Goffs Oak, England

  @AOL unable to sign into email for last week. No response from customer services. No one to talk to either😡😡Absolute joke. Important emails that I cannot access. AOL can you please get on to this. Beyond frustrating.

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  Jamie🐝 (@JL_BrentfordFC) reported 40 minutes ago from Hounslow, England

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

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  The Urban Kitchen (@urbankitchen) reported 44 minutes ago from Camberwell, England

  @ShikhaJainMD Actually got 2 - never had MySpace or AOL account!

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  Dan Calladine (@dancall) reported 49 minutes ago from Wandsworth, England

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

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  Mike Yardley (@YardleyShooting) reported 50 minutes ago from City of London, England

  Utterly useless service from AOL/Yahoo/TalkTalk yet again following my complaint reference the breakdown/failure of their systems. So irritating when you pay for a service and don't get it. I was told by a rep ref. AOL: "it's a very old platform.." as if that was an excuse. @AOL

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  Lee 'Budgie' Barnett (@budgie) reported 54 minutes ago from Richmond, England

  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.

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  Angela Casey (@ElfinchickCasey) reported 58 minutes ago from Enfield Lock, England

  @sky_waller I scored one. I never knowingly had an AOL account. Don't you feel sorry for today's kids.

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  LDN Scottie Pippen (@Alessandro_Babs) reported 59 minutes ago from Brentford, England

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

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  Alan Walker (@ahwpgapro) reported 59 minutes ago from Loughton, England

  @aolmail I’ve been attempting to retrieve my wife’s AOL password for the past 10 or more emails with your supposed email support. Its merry go round getting nowhere. Please assist.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  VoodooX-Rocket (@VoodooXRocket) reported 8 minutes ago

  @boostmobile Boost Mobile reminds me so much of the 1990's AOL. Their customer service makes it one of the worst MVNO carriers today! Their creative accounting is so hard for their reps to understand, so how is a customer going to?

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  sixstringsavant (@sixstringsavant) reported 8 minutes ago

  @akafaceUS It used to take days to cancel AOL. Now you just have to resist the temptation of Sirius radio for $5 a month. No, would you pay $3 a month?

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  Amazing.AI. (@amazing_AI_) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ThisOldTech2 As a computer user since '94, I'm trying to figure out why I never got a browser in a box. of course, I did access the Web through AOL at the beginning. 🤔

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  Fred Johnston (@JohnstonFredJ) reported 11 minutes ago

  @getwhatugive @LynAldenContact You’re collapsing the product and the protocol. BlackRock/MSTR make money if demand for bitcoin rises. Demand rises when access gets easier: brokerage accounts, 401ks, treasuries, Lightning, hardware wallets. Shrinking the buyer pool would hurt their bags. That’s the opposite incentive of “reduce access.” Early internet had AOL too. Walled gardens expanded the user base first. The open network still won because the protocol wasn’t owned by AOL.Same here. An ETF is not a modem ban. Anyone can still run a node, hold keys, and send sats. Institutions can offer a wrapper. They cannot revoke the chain. “Gemini agrees” is not an argument. The music-sharing analogy also fails: Napster was illegal and centralized. Bitcoin settles on a public ledger. You don’t sterilize that by listing a ticker.

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  Sir Ernest Shackleton (@ErniShackleton) reported 12 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Who ******** used map quest anymore. I thought it died along with AOL

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  Betty Egg (@betty_egg) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TylerW35386 I learned grammar in AOL metal chat - but I never hung out with any of those people...

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  LKA (@katiwa_4) reported 19 minutes ago

  Someone decided the Adams Arcade lights are not working… with Ngong road matatus flying like they have no breaks … Aol yawa.

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  DJ Richards (@stumblebum54) reported 19 minutes ago

  I’ve come to realize that Facebook is the AOL of social media. Horrible app developers. Probably hired them all from AOL.

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  Michael (@Mikehb1989) reported 19 minutes ago

  Aol Mail is so bad it won't even let you log out 👎👎👎#Aolmail

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  JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported 19 minutes ago

  @RWMaloneMD #HistoryMatters - seeing your uninformed Virgina rant on #DateCenters thought I might give you something to reflect upon: AOL started in Northern Virginia. It began in 1985 in Vienna as Quantum Computer Services, became America Online, and in 1996 moved its headquarters to Dulles/Ashburn in Loudoun County. Around the same time, UUNet/WorldCom was nearby. Those companies pulled in fiber and built early server facilities. Even more important was MAE-East (Metropolitan Area Exchange–East), one of the first big internet exchange points. It started in Fairfax County / Tysons around 1992 and later moved to Loudoun to sit closer to AOL and the other networks. At one point a huge share of U.S. internet traffic passed through it. Once networks had to meet there to exchange traffic, everyone else followed. Equinix built early Ashburn facilities for that reason. After the dot-com bust, AOL faded, but it left behind unused “dark fiber,” empty buildings, and a dense interconnection hub. Local officials later marketed that leftover infrastructure to data-center developers. AOL’s old campus itself has been torn down or converted into more data centers. Why it kept growing after AOL The cluster stuck because of a pile-on of advantages: Fiber density and low latency. Once the exchanges and carriers were there, it became the cheapest, fastest place to interconnect. A commonly cited figure is that a large share of global internet traffic still touches Loudoun. Proximity to Washington. Federal agencies, defense contractors, and intelligence work created early demand for secure computing nearby. Power and land. Dominion Energy power was relatively cheap and available. Eastern Loudoun still had large industrial parcels near Dulles when the boom started. Tax policy. Virginia added a sales-and-use tax exemption on data-center equipment (servers, generators, cooling, etc.) around 2008–2010. That became one of the state’s biggest economic-development incentives and made Virginia hard to beat on cost. Network effects. Each new data center made the next one more valuable, because customers want to be next to other networks, clouds, and content providers. So: AOL and MAE-East planted the flag in the 1990s. Cheap power, leftover fiber, DC proximity, and later tax breaks turned a local internet hub into the world’s largest data-center market. Ashburn/Loudoun is still the core; growth has since spilled into Prince William and other Virginia counties as land and power in the original alley got scarce.