AOL outages and service status in Buckley, Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Buckley, Wales

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Buckley, Wales 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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  Davidvinc (@TheDavidVinc) reported 8 minutes ago

  I remember when I was young and my mother would take me to the mall. I would bring a small notepad and pencil, then sit in Walden Books and write down things I had to do where I was stuck when I couldn't afford the guide. And as far as Gamefaqs is concerned, I don't think I knew that existed till like 1998 or 1999. It's not like we had social media to talk about different websites, I had to search using AOL keywords.

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  T s (@Ts7705421096234) reported 8 minutes ago

  @harryjsisson Cool. Mapquest is a thing again. Maybe I will stop getting **** for using my aol email from 30 years ago. Every thing comes back into style?

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  matyas fulop (@MatyasFulop) reported 9 minutes ago

  @neetintel @CommunityNotes If Emergency Action Messages aren't used for emergencies what does the military use then? AOL Instant Messenger?

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  🌈Raphael D. Swift 🖤📷💜#MMIW 🎵 (@RaphaelDSwift) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ZOE_SEQNC @michellexotter It all went down hill when they let AOL out of their box

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  high plains wizard (@adarkercemetry) reported 9 minutes ago

  It feels like holding for AOL support in 1994.

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  Crowsky📎 (@Crowsky13) reported 11 minutes ago

  @IzzatStatus The subscription model has been coming for years tbh. Remember how AOL stayed in business simply because so many people never canceled? Combined with the full erosion of ToS contracts, consumers are getting the shaft big time

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  The Gal (@giveu2tictacs) reported 13 minutes ago

  @alphafox I actually do. I used to build computers back then. I loved DOS the way it was. I went to Windows 3.1. I was doing tech support for USPS shipping software back when we did the switch to 95. People don't understand BB boards and what the internet actually looked like before we had Internet Exploder ( not a type O), Netscape, AOL, etc

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  ⚔️Tina Truth⚔️ (@_tinatruth) reported 13 minutes ago

  But AOL knew a threat was approaching. Broadband internet was gaining momentum. The problem? AOL’s business model was built for the old internet. The slow, dial-up world. To compete with broadband, AOL thought it needed something it didn’t yet have: World-class content. A merger with Time Warner would give AOL access to some of the most valuable media properties in the world. Together, they believed they could dominate the future of the internet.

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  sixstringsavant (@sixstringsavant) reported 14 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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  Dark Skies (@DarkSkiesNE) reported 18 minutes ago

  @LibertyPDX1 Data Centers have been around for a long time... The commercial internet & World Wide Web created demand for always-on servers & interconnection. Early internet exchange points such as MAE-East in Northern Virginia (Metropolitan Area Exchange–East), established in 1992, was the first non-governmental Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in the United States. It served as a physical meeting point where early commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) could interconnect & exchange traffic directly rather than routing everything through distant or government-controlled networks. This peering model reduced costs & latency & became a foundational piece of the commercial Internet. America Online’s presence in the region, plus cheap land near Dulles Airport, available fiber & proximity to Washington, D.C. & DARPA (which had funded ARPANET), made Loudoun County/Ashburn attractive. Equinix, founded in 1998, built one of the region’s first dedicated commercial data centers to serve AOL & others, pioneering the colocation model. Companies rented space, power, cooling & connectivity instead of building their own facilities. Similar “carrier hotels” & interconnection hubs emerged in cities such as New York & Los Angeles. The late-1990s dot-com boom accelerated construction of larger purpose-built facilities. The subsequent bust left unused space that later operators filled.