AOL outages and service status in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. 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 Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Washington, D.C. and nearby locations:

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  Ward Three DC (@wardthreedc) reported 12 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @jstrandt Got to film their 5 millionth sign up party at KaloramaStudios in Adams Morgan and they never paid me! I went on Aol because my dad was CompuServe and I didn’t wanna be old LOL

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  Kodi Seaton (@StepToTheMic) reported 16 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  Some of you have never spent a summer messaging a complete stranger on dial-up AOL Instant Messenger and it shows. 😫 #LoveIsBlindNetflix #loveisblind

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  francvs (@francvs) reported 27 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @AOL Why have I been seeing “We’re having trouble connecting with our servers. Please try again later,” for about a day now?

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  Heather Perram Frank BA (@MissInformation) reported 33 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @annasproul I was one of a handful of producers in the Dulles, VA AOL newsroom on 9/11. The campus was evacuated after a plane that departed from the adjacent airport slammed into the Pentagon. I’ll never forgot having to sit on my hands because they were shaking so much I couldn’t type.

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  TTT Nguyen (@AgarWoodCapital) reported 50 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  There can be no risk-free opportunity in sports, business or life. Failure is catastrophic bc of a lack of preparedness. Sears, DC redskins, Blackberry, AOL, & NYC knicks were at the top of their game, but they failed because they were afraid to fail. #failureispartofsuccess

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  Jimbo (@Jimbo3DC) reported 51 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @woolfhound That was precisely my experience with NYT, and it reminded me if when I had similar experiences trying to cancel my AOL or Bally's membership. Tacky and desperate.

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  Mark Bjorge (@MarkBjorge) reported 52 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @ebooksyearn Even their status-title “network” is anachronistic in the modern telecom world. They’re like AOL back when it was a closed ecosystem.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  alexandra (@aewjan1965) reported 36 seconds ago

  @MAnneAmbrose1 I still use my aol email address it’s coming up for 30 years now I have never tried contacting them, I do think the internet was nicer back then with chat rooms rather than just social media stuff, it was less superficial

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  Kite Lake Studio (@KiteLakeStudio) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Based_SpaceGoji Fun fact from the prehistory of the web: In the summer of 1993, when this movie came out, there were no web browsers. (Using AOL was nothing like surfing the web a few years later.) So there was no easy way to go online and look something up, and resolve a disagreement. For example... I knew at least two kids at my high school who were SURE those were pterodactyls flying away at the end. I was like, "Dude, they were pelicans. Why would the heroes be calmly watching and smiling at dinosaurs escaping the f---ing island?" But there was no way to convince them. No way to just go on a website and look it up, and show them. The fact is, before everyone had easy access to the web, life was full of really stupid little disagreements like that, especially when you were a kid. Did the kid from the Life Cereal commercials die from eating pop-rocks with Coke? Did Alfonso Ribeiro break his neck doing a headspin? For me, at least, those pelicans at the end of Jurassic Park were the last example of that particular kind of stupid argument. A year later, Netscape launched. One more thing... I always wondered if Spielberg heard stories of people mistaking those pelicans for pterodactyls, and was annoyed by it. Especially when I saw the sequel, and it ends with what is very, very clearly a pterodactyl spreading its wings in the sunlight. As if Spielberg was saying, "Here, dumbasses, THAT's a pterodactyl."

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  Vikas(Vik) Malpani| AI for US Real Estate (@vikasmalpani) reported 4 minutes ago

  Look at who bought it. Bending Spoons has acquired Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, Brightcove, Vimeo and AOL. The pattern never changes: buy a beloved product at a discount, cut costs hard, raise prices, and run it for profit instead of growth.

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  Michael Basar (@MGBasar1) reported 6 minutes ago

  @miracles7k @Excellentsalvic 19 of 20. Never had AOL.

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  Ollie Forsyth (@ollieforsyth) reported 6 minutes ago

  This Week in Startups: August 3rd It's a wild one 👇 Airtable gets acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.28B. Once valued at $11B, now picked up at a fraction, the third brand-at-a-discount play this year after AOL and Eventbrite. Google’s AI leadership reshuffle. Demis Hassabis moves from CEO of DeepMind to Alphabet Chief Scientist. Nikita Bier steps down from X as Chief Product Officer. Revolut founder in line for a mega payout. Nik Storonsky’s incentive package could push his fortune to £57B if Revolut hits $200B valuation, not far-fetched after its latest secondary at $115B! SpaceX posted its first quarterly earnings. Revenue reached $7.8B (nearly 2x YoY, beating estimates).

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  Mr Tupids 🍆 (@MrTupids) reported 7 minutes ago

  @hthieblot Excite chat was awesome. But PEAK for me using Progs in the AOL 3.0 days. I would go into chat rooms and if someone was rude, I would enter their screen name into my prog, it would send them an IM and all they would hear is “Goodbye” and then they would be logged off for 45 minutes. I think it was called “dolphin” or something.

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  𝑪𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕🍐 (@_im_tom) reported 14 minutes ago

  @xysist Pthoo.. we are poor yawa. Aol

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  Kathryn Kimball (@KimballKathryn) reported 16 minutes ago

  @miracles7k Never had aol

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  stekkerauto 🚗⚡️ (@stekkerauto) reported 17 minutes ago

  I still sometimes come across people who think that AI is a bad search engine that makes bad text and bad pictures, which is kind of like looking at the internet in 1997 and think it’s about AOL chat rooms. – Benedict Evans

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  Soren Lindbo (@LyreLeads) reported 19 minutes ago

  MSP prospecting tip: look for businesses still on Yahoo/AOL email, no SSL on the site, hosting on SquareSpace or Wix. That combination means no in-house IT, no enterprise vendor, zero compliance posture. The cleanest signal you can find.