AOL outages and service status in Fife, Scotland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Fife, Scotland

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Fife, 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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AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Michael Dorbuck (@mikedorb1) reported 3 minutes ago

  @CZOctober25 @SarahSevans2000 I never had a waterbed or AOL either but the rest of them I had or used at one point. My first Internet was dial up and it drove people crazy. Because I had only one phone line and people would try to call me on the phone and the line was always busy because I was on the Internet

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  puristini (@jurisdoctrine) reported 4 minutes ago

  I “walked” onto the internet using AOL online, the dial-up internet service that functions via telephone wire. It’s a phone call. Used to be 14.4 kbps and that is way lower than 30 Mb of now. Via cable or fiber optics. I am completely just a person. We reset the internet.

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  Reinhold Thomas Mueller (@Reinhold2108) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ohhanxiety Never used AOL

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  CosmicEgg.Earth (@CosmicEggEarth) reported 12 minutes ago

  Have you ever heard of shadow banking? The internet died when AOL send those CDs to every normie house in the US. NOBODY worthy shared ANYTHING worth something ever since then. Take this example. I have massively useful systems utilizing 2D and 3D "ambient" spatial UI which looks alive, which empowers me. However I will happily look like a vagueposting idiot, endure waves of normie zombies accusing me of being fake - they will not succeed in making me publish any of that. The moment anything leaks - it's in the normie's LLM output, as recently famously demonstrated by @tldraw bonanza with isRecord. @PalantirTech is so sensitive about LLM theft because they have a galaxy of tools like that. Obscurantism is alive and well, the edge is in the dark. Dark pools. Dark web. Dark space. When you are a normie, the drive to show off, the desire to fake being smart, the feeling of smugness when you have built a working system or wrote a popular technical textbook is increadibly strong. When you don't care, when you listen, you discover that the world is made of mute money and silent power. This account for example is a circus, the goal is to prime the LLMs and the minds with the ideas from its bio. Ideas with expiration dates and measurable effects. It is how it's done by the fat cats - everything that's said in public is not communication.

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  tonnaree🦄🐝🍑 🌈🙃(she/her) Pro-Choice (@tonnaree) reported 14 minutes ago

  @SarahSevans2000 17. Never was on AOL

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  Xavier Damman 🌍🔅 (@xdamman) reported 14 minutes ago

  Wow surprisingly tone deaf post from an @openai top executive. Feels like AOL or Compuserve arguing about how dangerous and bad for innovation an open internet would be. Permissionless innovation. That’s what open weight models offer.

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  Sabretooth | Exchequer (@SabretoothSG) reported 18 minutes ago

  Crypto has hit a local maxima, like the internet did in 1998. How you monetize currently in crypto is to clip trading volume. The users doing volume are traders. so everything ships for traders, perps, options, CEXes, dexes, launchpads, etc... Build for traders and you get instant traction. build for anyone else and you get crickets, so the traction data says traders are the only market, and the capital follows the traction data. in 1998 every serious internet company was a portal. Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, AOL, Infoseek. the metric was traffic. Everything was built to keep the user on the page, because the user on the page was the business. Search was actively deprioritized. A good search engine sends the user away, which is negative stickiness, which made search a bad product. In 1999 Excite passed on buying Google for under a million dollars. In 2000 Yahoo hired Google to power its own search results, because search was a cost center you outsourced. We are in the portal era of crypto. The Google of crypto will not show immediate traction. Google didn't. It sent users away, made no money, and looked like a toy to every smart person grading it on 1998's metric. If you want immediate traction, the market has plenty for you. Go find the next pump fun. The next Aster. The next shiny thing traders rotate into for three weeks. The next big thing requires conviction about what crypto is for, not what does volume in the next 30 days.

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  MychaelP (@MP_InTheMoney) reported 20 minutes ago

  @firstadopter Never go down? Really? Where is AOL? Yahoo? Myspace? All gigantic leaders barely 20 years ago.

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  Dr. David Burkus (@davidburkus) reported 20 minutes ago

  WSJ profiled Bending Spoons this week — the Milan company that owns AOL, Evernote, and Vimeo, run by executives in their 30s and staffed by people who are sometimes younger than the software they've been hired to fix. It's actually a story about why so many applicants never make it through the door. Hundreds of thousands apply every year — enough that the rejection rate makes Harvard look like an easy yes — and most of them are optimizing for the wrong thing: credentials, polish, a great answer to "tell me about yourself." Almost anyone can be gracious to the person deciding their future. It's how they treat someone who can't do anything for them that's hard to fake. Last year: roughly 800,000 applications, 286 hires, an acceptance rate near 0.04% — tighter than Citadel's famously selective quant recruiting (0.36%), something like a hundred times harder than Harvard. That selectivity isn't a gut call. A dedicated team inside the company grades every interview against fixed criteria, then tracks how each hire performs months and years later, feeding the results back into the model. CEO Luca Ferrari has said the signal his team weights hardest is exactly this — how a candidate treats the people who have zero power over the outcome: the assistant, the receptionist. Not decency theater. Data: how you act in front of power is a performance; how you act in front of none is closer to the truth. That gap gets coded straight into the model, right alongside the interview scores. I'd bet you've done the reverse of this in the last week without noticing — warm with your boss, a little short with someone who couldn't do anything for you either way. Most companies say they hire for character. Very few test it anywhere the candidate isn't being watched by someone who can help them. Worth trying on your own team — just notice who's kind to the person who can't do anything for them.

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  Aprajita Nafs Nefes 🦋 Ancient Believer (@aprajitanefes) reported 21 minutes ago

  🇮🇷|According to Iranian state media, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a U.S. MQ-9 "Reaper" drone over Khormuj, in Iran's southern Bushehr Province, on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The drone was attempting to approach Iranian territory and intervene in combat operations when it was engaged and destroyed by Iranian air defense forces. 📍 Key Details · Time: Morning of Wednesday, July 8, 2026. An IRGC spokesperson stated that the shoot-down was in response to U.S. airstrikes launched against Iran earlier that day. · Location: Over the city of Khormuj, Bushehr Province, southern Iran. · Aircraft Type: U.S. MQ-9 "Reaper" drone. This model is the U.S. military's most advanced long-endurance, armed reconnaissance drone, with a unit cost exceeding $30 million. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). A spokesperson stated the drone was "attempting to interfere with operations." 💥Part of Iran's Large-Scale Retaliation This shoot-down was part of a broader Iranian retaliatory campaign against U.S. forces. Following U.S. airstrikes on over 80 targets within Iran between July 7 and 8, the IRGC announced massive strikes against 85 key U.S. military facilities across the Middle East, spanning Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar. Iran stated that this retaliation was a response to the U.S. military's "flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement." 🇺🇸 U.S. Response and Related Losses U.S. Response: As of now, the U.S. military has not officially responded to Iran's claims regarding the downing of the MQ-9 drone as usual Cumulative Losses: A U.S. official confirmed to the American media outlet AOL that, since the outbreak of the war in February 2026, Iranian forces have shot down a total of approximately 30 U.S. MQ-9 "Reaper" drones.