AOL outages and service status in Eltham, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Eltham, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Eltham, England 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 Near Eltham, England

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

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  Jonathan Richard (@JonRichard) reported 9 minutes ago from Bromley, England

  @yungcontent And Bebo never sells to AOL

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  Mic Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) reported 14 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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  Mike Yardley (@YardleyShooting) reported 14 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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  The Urban Kitchen (@urbankitchen) reported 16 minutes ago from Camberwell, England

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

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  Mike Yardley (@YardleyShooting) reported 18 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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  Orrin Edenfield, an 🇺🇸 living in 🇬🇧 (@OrrinEdenfield) reported 28 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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  Steve O (@journeymanstev1) reported 33 minutes ago from Camberwell, England

  @Suvvo @AOL I’m having same problem… think it’s worldwide

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  Tom Broad (@broad_thomas) reported 37 minutes ago from Bexleyheath, England

  @AOLSupportHelp hi we have forgotten our aol@password tried to recover it but can’t, have no recovery details set up help please

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  Sarah Solomon (@xSarahSolomon) reported 43 minutes ago from Camberwell, England

  AGREED! Every kid except me had nice shiny internet...we were stuck with that shitty AOL dialup that we were only allowed to use to play Cartoon Network games on if we were good 🥴

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  James Freund (@jayfreund) reported 58 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?

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  The Lock (@The_Warlock_86) reported 22 seconds ago

  News flash, they never did. Even at the height of the Attitude Era wrestling was still looked down upon even with star athletes Kevin Greene, Dennis Rodman & Karl Malone headlining ppvs. Hardcore wrestling fans used to ***** in AOL chatrooms and Delphi Forums about celeb involvement. If you want further proof, no one outside of hardcore nerds watches AEW

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  Alex Goldman (@AGoldmund) reported 2 minutes ago

  I’m reading Kara Swisher’s book about AOL which came out in 1999, and the tone of the book is like “this is the biggest company in the world! Nothing will take them down!”

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  Mark Blaydes (@mblaydes1) reported 4 minutes ago

  @brockpierson I would login to AOL than go make dinner. By the time I came back the home page may have uploaded

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  𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 (@manipulate) reported 5 minutes ago

  a lot of you have never been punted off of aol at 3am and it shows.

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  Rich (@RichardWyl39256) reported 8 minutes ago

  @SeaeyesTri I remember setting up my dial up connection on AOL. It was so slow back then

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  Jeff Bohren (@JeffBohren) reported 9 minutes ago

  @brockpierson If you had AOL or CompuServe, you had to connect with a modem. At some point PCs shipped with integrated modems, but yes, I rocked one of those bad boys as well.

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  LKA (@katiwa_4) reported 9 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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  Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) reported 10 minutes ago

  My Aunt Jane has had the same AOL email address since 1997 and is using ChatGPT to help her redesign her kitchen.

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  Shmuel Londner 🇮🇱 (@ShmuelLon) reported 11 minutes ago

  Something about $BSP: they bought AOL at a 5x income before tax, which is optically cheap right? The small issue is that they bought it from Apollo and imho there's zero chance Apollo got a bad deal

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  JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported 12 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.