AOL outages and service status in Cambridge, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Cambridge, England

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

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  exQUIZitely 🕹️ (@exQUIZitely) reported 2 minutes ago

  AOL was once worth more than Nvidia, McDonald's, Apple, Amazon, General Motors, Starbucks, Adobe, Nokia, and Disney - combined! It was the world's #1 Internet Service Provider and mailed a billion free trial CDs. You'd find them tucked into cereal boxes, magazines, and airplane seat pockets. At one point, half of all CDs produced on Earth are AOL discs. Once the biggest merger in history (AOL/Time Warner), now a mere glimpse on the radar...

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  Business Nerd (@Business_Nerd_) reported 4 minutes ago

  Marc Andreessen on the exact moment the Internet changed forever: "There are two Internets," Marc explains. "There's the Internet that existed before 1993 and the Internet that existed after 1993." Before 1993, the Internet was funded by the National Science Foundation as an academic and research network. Commercial activity was strictly prohibited under what was called the acceptable use policy. The result was something the people who lived through it still describe in utopian terms. @pmarca describes it like this: "People who were on the Internet before 1993 often describe it in utopian terms because it literally was like you take the whatever million smartest people in the world and you put them on a network together with like no commercial activity, no advertising, no nothing, just the million smartest people in the world. And you just like let them talk to each other. And it's just like amazing." He singles out Usenet, the old messaging system, as the centerpiece of that world: "The discussions on Usenet were just like absolutely spectacular… It was like the most pure, clean intellectual, like vibrant space sense, like, I don't know, Athens in 500 BC. It was just like this amazing phenomenon." Then AOL connected. In September 1993, AOL plugged its million or two million subscribers. Normal people into the Internet for the first time. That moment got a name: eternal September. It was the day the Internet stopped being an ivory tower and became a mainstream consumer thing. The "eternal" part is its own joke. Marc explains: "Concept of eternal September literally was, it was like when every new wave of college graduates graduated and got their first job and then went online. So September is when the new crop of Internet users showed up… So the September effect didn't just happen once. It like happened over and over and over and over and over again. And every cycle of Internet user would basically be like, oh my God, this is great. But like, it's all going to get ruined in September." The Internet we live in today is the result of roughly 30 of those Septembers stacked on top of each other. Marc is careful to say he's pro that shift. He was on the side of opening it up, allowing commerce, allowing advertising, connecting everyone. But he doesn't pretend the trade-off wasn't real. You can't take a network of the smartest million people on earth, connect it to everyone, and expect the texture of the conversation to survive. The lesson sits underneath the story. Every great network has a pre-commercial phase that the early users remember as paradise, and a post-commercial phase that actually changes the world. Both are real. You don't get the second without giving up the first.

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  Ron Duncan ✝️ (@RonDuncan7) reported 11 minutes ago

  @dennismiloseski @hthieblot Very familiar to me. I worked for AOL from February '97 to December 2006 when the call center I was working in shut down. I started in Tech support and learned a great deal about all things computer related, both in dealing with hardware and software. Technology has changed immensely over the past 30 years.

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  tellitlikeitis (@RonFernberg1) reported 14 minutes ago

  Mm, I thought AOL & her Donkey was going to do her Bar maid & Donkey act down in Tijuana Mexico HUH?

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  HowlingBunghole (@HowlingBunghole) reported 16 minutes ago

  In 1999 I had more spending power due to not having a cell phone, streaming service, or internet, except for my 750 free hours of AOL. I "rented" movies from the library. I also read a lot more back then.

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  Gary Dodson (@Gdisme2628) reported 17 minutes ago

  @thackerpd CNN IS THE WORST. FOX IS PROBABLY THE BEST WITH HANNITY OR MARK LEVINE. AS FAR AS MAINSTREAM OR NEWS MAX / AOL

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  At The Table with Deirdre Lester (@JaneWallStreet) reported 19 minutes ago

  Erika talks to @GanunLester about leadership and the learning lessons she has taken from big places like Microsoft, Yahoo & AOL, but also smaller shops like Barstool and Food52. Erika is a builder. She "wants to be pushing things and finding new frontiers". "So my advice to anybody in leadership is like: One, you just have to be exceedingly generous. Two, there should be no job beneath you. Three is like you're gonna take an inordinate amount of ****, whether you did something right or did something wrong or not." Being a leader means you are on the front lines of suffering and adversity. Embrace it and dig deep.

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  stace (@laterpleasewhen) reported 20 minutes ago

  Le sigh? Damn I remember putting that as my away message on AOL instant messenger in college

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  RichardJK (@RichardJKPE) reported 21 minutes ago

  @girdley The worst was Time Warner's purchase of AOL.

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  Intelligent Design is Science (@DNAisCode) reported 21 minutes ago

  @adxtyahq This is so beyond dumb. AI is NOT tokens. Do you have any idea how early we are in AI? You're talking like the tech has reached its peak and will never get better or cheaper. Did you declare the internet a bubble because you had to pay AOL $50 for two hours of dial up?