AOL outages and service status in Aldershot, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Aldershot, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Aldershot, 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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  Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel) reported 7 minutes ago

  Before Broadband, There Was 3Com and U.S. Robotics On June 12, 1997, 3Com completed its $6.6 billion merger with U.S. Robotics, the largest deal the data networking industry had ever seen. At the time, it made obvious sense. 3Com was a major force in Ethernet cards, hubs, switches, and enterprise networking. U.S. Robotics was the great modem brand, helping millions of people get online through phone lines, patience, and that unforgettable dial-up screech that sounded like a fax machine losing an argument. The deal was also a snapshot of the internet before broadband became normal. Offices were being wired with Ethernet. Homes were dialing into the web. Remote workers connected through access servers. Getting online was still something you did deliberately, not something that surrounded you. U.S. Robotics was in the middle of the 56K modem wars, pushing its x2 technology against the Rockwell and Lucent K56flex camp before the V.90 standard settled the fight in 1998. Line quality, compression, compatibility, and a few extra kilobits decided whether the web felt useful or miserable. 3Com brought the LAN side. Ethernet cards in PCs. Hubs and switches in offices. Networks that turned standalone computers into connected organizations. Cisco was becoming the giant in the room, and the market was shifting from selling components to controlling the connectivity stack. The two halves of the deal aged very differently. The modem business was massive, then faded fast as dial-up gave way to cable, DSL, Wi-Fi, fiber, and mobile data. U.S. Robotics became a nostalgia trigger for anyone who remembers waiting for AOL to connect. Ethernet never went away. It moved from office LANs into data centers, carrier networks, industrial systems, cloud infrastructure, cars, and now AI clusters. Speeds, cables, and workloads all changed, and the core idea kept scaling. That is rare in tech. Most technologies age into museums. Ethernet aged into the backbone. Its future still looks strong, because AI data centers, cloud platforms, telecom networks, and edge computing all need more bandwidth, lower latency, and cheaper scale. The merger itself did not age as well. Dial-up was already on borrowed time. Palm, which came along with U.S. Robotics, was spun off in 2000 and briefly worth more than its parent. By that same year, 3Com had spun U.S. Robotics back out as an independent company. The biggest networking merger in history unwound in three years. Still, the deal marks a real turning point. Before broadband, before Wi-Fi everywhere, before smartphones and cloud and AI factories, the internet had to be stitched together one modem, one Ethernet card, and one phone line at a time. For a brief moment, 3Com and U.S. Robotics sat at the center of that transition.

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  Brian Sowards (he/they) (@briansowards) reported 8 minutes ago

  @burkov my 70+ year old mother in law. its her AI. all her searches, ideas, projects, tech help, questions. I don’t use it now, but I simply introduce her to the app. Reminds me of AOL at the dawn of the internet.

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  AOL Screen Name 📬 (@holleratbrian) reported 13 minutes ago

  @JosephD Were you ever apart of any of the infamous AOL private chat rooms? Some really wild stuff went down in there in the early Internet 😳

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  Crypto Update IO 🚀 (@cryptoupdate_io) reported 16 minutes ago

  @martinezjoke220 1998 internet was dial-up and AOL. 2025 crypto is 51% attacks and regulatory roulette. Wild west? More like a bad neighborhood.

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  𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧 (@willxcore) reported 16 minutes ago

  @redrum_panda Yea I watched my mom connect to the dial-up, AOL and then look up the Yodas Help website for the games that pointed to the ATI drivers. They thought I was too dumb to do it on my own but it was game over for them.

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  CEO of Racism, homophobia, misogyny & model trains (@moboftwitsproof) reported 17 minutes ago

  @ArrioHicko33777 @PrinnyCherry @Kari445009 long ago I worked for AOL. in the smoker break area an argument broke out between signups and support. Support was saying signnups are a bigger part of the problem because they were adding users. signups was saying support was the problem because they were keeping ppl on dialup.

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  Dan Shapiro (@DanTheFinanceMn) reported 21 minutes ago

  Bitcoin - it’s not a pretty picture right now. It’s been in a massive sell off since October of last year. It does have dynamic support at that red line, which is the 200 simple moving average. I would expect some sort of bounce there, but there is no “has to” in the markets and it can certainly go lower, even much lower.  My problem with bitcoin is its usability. I’ve never used bitcoin to buy anything and very few places accept bitcoin as payment. And when an asset class can move that quickly, it is certainly not a store of value, at least not yet. So when people say it’s digital Gold, I just don’t know, I don’t see it yet. Until I can actually use it, I can’t get excited about it. There is value to the technology I know that for sure but I’m not educated enough in crypto to know exactly what that is. The market will tell me when it’s time to buy crypto. Crypto reminds me of the .COM error of 2000, you could see the future, but you knew it was a while away from being practical. Most of the names that were all hyped up are no longer around like AOL or Infoseek or Netscape. With the .COM crash Amazon went to a dollar a share. OMG imagine where you would be right now if you bought Amazon at a dollar a share. We may be approaching a similar situation in bitcoin, I’m just not sure where this asset class bottoms. Don’t forget with the Internet, we were all hyped up about it in 1995 when it was just coming out, but it wasn’t until 2000 when all the mania started happening in the internet stocks which led to the eventual stock market crash of 2000.  Disclaimer: this is not professional, financial advice, it’s just my opinion.

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  A variation of 𐤀𐤄𐤓𐤍 (@Peacock486) reported 21 minutes ago

  @BrianRoemmele "Family Drθne!" & the IE-like window that the desktop is *inside of* & the smooth progress bar & AOL never looked like that this is what you get with people who weren't there - and guess what, this is NORMAL in human history.

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  big chungus (@Ronnie_Wiess) reported 22 minutes ago

  @johnarnold It’s hard when so much of people’s lives is documented online. I don’t condone it. I remember some of the stupid things I wrote on AOL Instant Messenger as a kid and people would say in gaming chatrooms. Can’t even next gen since everything is cached and searchable now.

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  Rebecca Lombardo - Author, advocate, blogger (@BekaLombardo) reported 25 minutes ago

  @AOL I have been a loyal customer for more than 26 years. My account is hacked and your people have left us on hold for 3 hours. No one is helping us and who knows what is happening to my account. #badcustomerservice