AOL outages and service status in Kent, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Kent, England

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

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

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  Spaceman - Andy G (@SpacemanCre8) reported 13 minutes ago from Ditton, England

  Can safely say that @AOL @aolmail @AOLSupportHelp have proved to have the worst customer service I have ever experienced. No way of contacting other than email, no acknowledgement that Mail account can’t be accessed, no way of resetting password. No help at all. Disgusting.

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  Rose Gold (@RrmetroldRose) reported 46 minutes ago from Ashford, England

  @aolmail are you able to advise on problem with emails today?

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  𝓁𝓊𝓂𝓅 🐱 (@louiswaincat) reported 1 minute ago

  @quirkyloner I remember being an internet elitist at age 12 and looking down on AOL users (esp AOL chatrooms) as uncultured swine while I, an intellectual, used IRC for my chat needs. While also using AOL for my internet lol

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  Michael Morrell (@michaelmorrell) reported 5 minutes ago

  @immaterial_ink @solanamobile fully onchain chat protocol like aol instant messenger. pgp for dms. powered by memo program or something. biggest blocker is adoption friction i.e. getting it in an existing wallet app, and/or getting pkeys imported, and establishing a network effect

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  Alex Hernandez 🇺🇸 🚫 💉 (@ahernandez85a) reported 7 minutes ago

  @CNNEnemedia @VivaLaAmes11 My Dad had AOL but I never did I went right to Netcom from those trial disks they used to give out at Micro Center, so no chat rooms just email and web

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  Chris Farrell (@chrispfarrell) reported 9 minutes ago

  I think OpenAI and Anthropic might be the CompuServe and AOL of the AI era. Does anyone actually think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, X/Twitter, and all of the other big tech companies will just allow these 2 badly run startups to capture the AI market? OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat or sustainable competitive advantage. To win they have to not only develop a moat but penetrate some of the most fortified moats. Model quality isn't a moat. Kimi, Grok, Deepseek proved that. Inference will become a commodity utility that requires massive CapEx that neither can finance. Interface is where the moat is the weakest. OpenAI and Anthropic do not own the apps or the OS. The OS and apps are owned by parties who view OpenAI or Anthropic as threats, and they can complicate things very easily. As if that is not grim enough, AI sovereignty will become an issue. Consumers will want their iCloud data to stay in iCloud, their OneDrive data to stay in OneDrive, etc. Enterprise customers will want AI from their cloud providers to reduce egress and for performance + IP reasons. It is honestly hard to imagine a world where OpenAI and Anthropic survive as they are. They will either morph into companies with entirely different value offerings or die like Compuserve and AOL.

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  Heath Weaver (@heathweaver) reported 10 minutes ago

  @qlypai For @twigl_it I don't think of it as a wrapper around a frontier model, but I guess you could say that. In my view, all frontier models will follow the path of AOL. It's moving rapidly along the same trajectory. AOL mail, chat were all massively popular; AOL's valuation went to the moon, etc. But then dedicated tools came in, and against the single focus, AOL couldn't compete. Once SpaceX launches space-based datacenters along with Starlink, the game will be up. My bet is that the harness is where the value is at. I have really zero loyalty to a particular model; I just want the highest raw intelligence with the ability to throttle down for work that doesn't need it. It's not even clear to me what Anthropic or OpenAI think is actually going to happen. I am sure they can see from their own metrics that like 95% of users are just using it as a glorified search engine. The mass does not care at all about the companies and will use whatever is best and free (i.e., ad-supported). In the long run, Google will likely win. So a true wrapper, like simply putting the API with a bit of context, will become irrelevant to higher levels of intelligence, but I don't think the frontier models can ever win against a superior harness on a really specific proprietary data pool. I am betting that people would rather have more control over their own data, be able to better direct context, and be able to use the best-performing self-healing skills with tools with the most intelligent model that is out there.

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  Mike Lin (@mikelin1789) reported 11 minutes ago

  @dampedspring Most kids who trade 2x/3x Etfs on "AI stocks" have never heard of AOL, Netscape, WorldCom, Ciena, Sun Micro, Nokia, and more.

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  Hawara (@ein_hawara) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Noahpinion It is also pretty easy to imagine a world where a global, distributed network of open protocols that is mostly permissionsless did not happen in this way, and in which we only would have gotten a better AOL.

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  Rebecca Mellander (@RebeccaRebecky) reported 20 minutes ago

  @MushKat LOL. I still have my AOL email. I use it for those registrations I hope never to communicate with again. And guess what? AOL has never told me I am exceeding my storage limit -- unlike Google, who contacts me constantly. And I don't ever clean out my AOL account.

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  Phil McCoxwell (@PhilMccoxwell) reported 20 minutes ago

  @MustangMan_TX Yay! Its AOL. She must’ve hired a civil engineering firm with expertise in roads and bridges to fix her teeth. For some reason I imagine **** flies buzzing around her.

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  puristini (@jurisdoctrine) reported 25 minutes ago

  I “walked” onto the internet using AOL online, the dial-up internet service that functions via telephone wire. It’s a phone call. Used to be 14.4 kbps and that is way lower than 30 Mb of now. Via cable or fiber optics. I am completely just a person. We reset the internet.