AOL outages and service status in Elstree, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Elstree, England

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

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

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  Sarah Pilates (@sarahpilates) reported 4 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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  8/10 (@8outof10blog) reported 14 minutes ago from Barnet, England

  @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!

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  Josa Keyes (@JosaKeyes) reported 15 minutes ago from Ealing, 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.

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  Doug (@dougmortonagain) reported 39 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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  John Jansen (@thejohnjansen) reported 54 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.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Thales of Florida (@FloridaThales) reported 3 minutes ago

  @MorlockP Blue collar business is fascinating to me because it's relatively simple (not easy, the work is hard) to succeed in it. Yet so many become broke or never make it. Then you see why. AOL email addresses, people who don't show up on time, never returning sales lead calls. Etc.

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  DOT_Singularity🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@DOT_singularity) reported 7 minutes ago

  @SteveMoraco Boo- friggidty-hooo, This is nothing new. I want the AI to be able to pull in context from **** I wrote on AOL in 1995. My online **** game was strong! If you're Laboring under some expectation of ever having true privacy in the digital world , it's a fools errand. Crack on.

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  Michael (@Mikehb1989) reported 7 minutes ago

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

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  Jay $ick (@JaySick78) reported 11 minutes ago

  @brockpierson Damn, I forgot those days... and forget trying to download a pic from AOL online to see who you are talking to. A/S/L

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  C (@T00tbeer) reported 12 minutes ago

  @WayneGunter8 @FrankenDjo Hahahaha oh ****. I forgot about AIM and AOL.

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  PPE (@planert41) reported 15 minutes ago

  The internet enabled "connectivity". All these isolated pockets of information and communities and people always existed before, but being able to connect them together with the internet was what created the huge marginal value. I think the gains falls into 3 general buckets: 1) Connecting/Aggregating supply and demand. People have way more choices now from both supply and demand side - Amazon, Facebook (for human interests/social communities) 2) Efficiency gains from better coordination - Amazon 2 Day Delivery. 3) Frictionless instant distribution - Netflix streaming movies into your home Everyone has been talking about who extracts the most value from the AI stack, and if you look at the internet it's undoubtedly the applications that did. The rest of the stack essentially became commoditized. So let's get back to AI. In the same vein, i think AI enables "intelligence". Before this if you wanted to build a website, you had to hire someone who had the "intelligence" or gain the "intelligence" yourself to build it. Now you just ask AI and it does it for you. Intelligence/Execution is now cheap. Everyone has an intelligent PHD who knows a little of everything working for them on their computer now. OpenAI/Anthropic doesn't feel too different than say AOL back in the day when it was the only way consumers could access the internet. Eventually people had alternatives and it went away although for the internet providers, AOL didn't necessarily provide "better" internet than its competitors but the frontier AI models could potentially. AI Chips/Hardware now don't seem too dissimilar to how modems/routers/optic cables were for the internet. It'll still be short squeezed in the short term, but we'll eventually get more alternatives and supply. Energy/infrastructure - Eventually ppl will build data centers in the middle of nowhere with energy supply and it'll be fine. There will be alternatives. So i think eventually all the value will accrue to the application layer as everything else gets commoditized? But what would those applications look like? One thought experiment would be to consider which companies/products couldn't exist without the internet. Everyone in FAANG could be considered here, so maybe the trick is to find companies that couldn't exist without AI? Walmart would still exist without the internet, but not Amazon. Amazon figured out how to give itself an unfair advantage with the internet. Google obviously couldn't exist without the internet. So what are the similar parallels for AI? Maybe something like Harvey? What could i do with AI that i couldn't before (besides coding?). Most things still just feel like marginal efficiency gains (besides coding), instead of completely newly unlocked capabilities. I could imagine like a personal AI health assistant that will give you the vitamins or cook personalized meals (via contractor) you need everyday based on your data. Or maybe like an AI home system that helps you schedule for maintenance/repairs without you needing to think about it? Perhaps the internet solved the distribution problem, so the bet should just be on companies who already have a lock on distribution like $CRM and bet that they'll figure AI out. But perhaps we still need more time for AI to play out to identify these potential long term winners. We still don't really know what we can actually do with AI yet

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  Æ AI 🏴‍☠️ 原子纪元 (@atomeons_ai) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Scobleizer The moment is set later in retrospect. That's the issue. We look back at the 1000s of moments and pick one. Like AOL CDs but there was much more to the moment. This ebbs in then a crash.

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  Ang•el / מלאך (@AngelCWilliams) reported 17 minutes ago

  Rabbis and Rabbonias Tell Us Eliyahu Kin Shepardic David the Prince Used Illegal AOL Punters To Harbor My Bad Boy Entertainment Account

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  Florida Grand (@florida_grand) reported 18 minutes ago

  Idk where y’all get your crazy “information” but it must be from someone high af. It’s bizarre how y’all keep coming up with the weirdest Netflix streaming show ideas. 1. The Legislature has not tried to enact recreational ********* 2. Byron Donalds does not want to enact recreational ********* 3. Full f*cking stop because why do you need me to LITERALLY tell you something you can ask Google, ChatGPT, Grok, any search engine?!?!?!?!?!? What year do you live in? Are you still using AOL dial up service? Geez

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  Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) reported 18 minutes ago

  On the day Michael Jackson died in 2009, the internet collapsed. The LA Times, AOL, TMZ, AIM, and several other major sites completely crashed. Searches for the King of Pop spiked to an insane ~4.2 million per minute. Google believed it was under some kind of cyber attack because of the sudden flood of people searching “Michael Jackson”. Twitter went down and Wikipedia crashed around 3:15 p.m. PDT.