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.

AOL signals over the past 24 hours, with local activity from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. and nearby areas. The dashed baseline applies to service-wide activity, not to local outage confirmation.

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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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  Christina Sheryl Messenger (@Messe3Christina) reported 41 seconds ago from Alexandria, Virginia

  @AOLSupportHelp I have been trying to get to deactivate the my account but when I called Customer Support, they’d told me that I would not be able to deactivate it for a year!! 😭😭😭 Please help me!!

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  George Economides (@Athens1896) reported 1 minute ago from Riverdale Park, Maryland

  @AOL Aol should get their stories straight. Tried to lower my costs and agreed to $5 plan, but still being billed $18.95. Can't get right person to correct problem. HELP. Long time user of AOL. HELP!!! Thanks in advance.

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  G. Double D. (@ShirleyImMilk) reported 13 minutes ago from Arlington, Virginia

  Were talking about “What cultural item are you older than” at work. We’re slow. So far, I’m older than MTv, AOL and VHS cassettes. This is a fun game to make me feel like I AM ACTUALLY THE OLDEST IN THE STORE. I don’t like this game... I’m taking my slap wraps and going home.

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  Karen J (@KarenCarolina84) reported 13 minutes ago from Coral Hills, Maryland

  @aol email is still down

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  HelenHighly (@Helen_Highly) reported 14 minutes ago from Alexandria, Virginia

  @Doc_Harding @Nerienis Perhaps their sudden popularity (and unprepared infrastructure) will destroy their success, like it did AOL back in the day with the busy-signal fiasco. 🫤

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  TTT Nguyen (@AgarWoodCapital) reported 14 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 18 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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  Karen J (@KarenCarolina84) reported 22 minutes ago from Coral Hills, Maryland

  Why is my @aol email not working? 😢

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  DatDudePerk (@perk713) reported 24 minutes ago from Springfield, Maryland

  If you never heard of Cingular Wireless, Wachovia Bank or AOL..Address me as Unc

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  Anfernee Harlemway (@SkeezeeWonder) reported 27 minutes ago from Suitland, Maryland

  @freshleebaked Nah **** this I’m going back to AOL groupchats

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  Kodi Seaton (@StepToTheMic) reported 33 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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  Dr. Tracey Perez Koehlmoos (@DrTraceyK) reported 35 minutes ago from Arlington, Virginia

  @cclareMDMPH Two. I never had an AOL address.

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  Connor McGowan (@bucketOfBuckets) reported 37 minutes ago from Arlington, Virginia

  @aklingus There was like a 6 month period in the mid 90s where AOL chat rooms were a fun place to hang out… and when you started a convo with someone you’d have to rapid fire emails back and forth because there was no private chat or instant message system

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  Jayde Willow Coler🏳️‍⚧️ (@JaydeColer) reported 37 minutes ago from Arlington, Virginia

  He IS a security risk but I’d say he’s more like Netscape (old as shit and useless) or the old AOL software (kept around far longer than should have been because people liked the one catchphrase it had)

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  💜🖤Blood Girl🦇Raven💜🖤 (@RAVENSBlood5220) reported 41 minutes ago from East Riverdale, Maryland

  The Invasion angle should've been the most epic moment in Wrestling. Without all the major stars from WCW, it never lived up to those expectations. Very disappointing. There also was no Twitter to explain those AOL contracts for those stars too. #RuthlessAggression

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  Ward Three DC (@wardthreedc) reported 43 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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  Heather Perram Frank BA (@MissInformation) reported 47 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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  Glenda Flores (@GlendaF77551891) reported 50 minutes ago from Falls Hill, Virginia

  Jocelyne if you slept with Jason it’s cool…😒 You think I’m dumb right? I seen your porn collections and all you AOL chats 😒 The original convo was you slept with Meylene 😒 You think I’m stupid.

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  Richard Hanson ✡ (@RichardH1818) reported 51 minutes ago from Merrifield, Virginia

  Email server Recommendations anyone? AOL has been the host for mine--but now they've made it hard to use. They now put different, and very distracting, balloons at the beginning for each message. I don't want a message service that makes it harder.

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  francvs (@francvs) reported 57 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?

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  matyas fulop (@MatyasFulop) reported 3 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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  JJ Faulk (@JohnWilliamFau2) reported 4 minutes ago

  @SanityHak Thats one thing I picked up on in Miss Hyde's Testilying to checking Safari search history , wait what ? Safari is not and I repeat is not a search engine , they simply take your request and use Google and AOL and other search engines so by checking these search histories would tell Hyde the exact time That search was made and open tabs wouldn't matter but if she did check them she never said so ! Fraudsters for hire and a stinking *** judge who allowed false testimony in this trial and you can bet your *** Karen wins her lawsuit when they check all this stuff like invested videos and low quality security footage , 43 minutes missing , a bunch of bullshit **** and the antis can ride this **** straight to hell !

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  Jeff Bohren (@JeffBohren) reported 5 minutes ago

  @brockpierson If you had AOL or CompuServe, you had to connect with a modem. At some point PCs shipped with integrated modems, but yes, I rocked one of those bad boys as well.

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  Steve. 🇺🇸🦅 (@Stevec2255) reported 5 minutes ago

  @hetmehtaa I have an AOL install disc somewhere Will that help?

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  Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) reported 6 minutes ago

  On the day Michael Jackson died in 2009, the internet collapsed. The LA Times, AOL, TMZ, AIM, and several other major sites completely crashed. Searches for the King of Pop spiked to an insane ~4.2 million per minute. Google believed it was under some kind of cyber attack because of the sudden flood of people searching “Michael Jackson”. Twitter went down and Wikipedia crashed around 3:15 p.m. PDT.

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  Big Sean Corduroy Don Jr (@universalken88) reported 7 minutes ago

  @whiteboysumer you want me to be upset? online? like interacting with a complete stranger that doesn’t know me or anything about me…could upset me? im 38 yrs old. i cant be upset by strangers online. i was in AOL chat rooms when this **** was fun. what ethics?

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  soph (@agentofsunlight) reported 10 minutes ago

  @rizcriz i got in so much trouble once in middle school for going on aol chat rooms LMAO

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  Jesse (@jesse_altman) reported 11 minutes ago

  If you ever find yourself scrolling X and feeling like there’s too much happening and you’re falling behind on __________ thing, zoom out and realize by even being here and a part of the conversation you’re already light years ahead of 99% of the population w/ respect to the AI renaissance we’re currently living through. We’re still so early. It’s like the days when AOL used to mail you a CD ROM to onboard you onto dial up internet - we’re there. Spending the weekend with old friends in Austin, none of whom are in tech/SaaS or marketing. They’re doctors, actors/producers, teachers, civil engineers, carpenters, etc…and most of what we talk about on this app is totally alien to them. Which is totally fine. I’m hanging with the $20/mo Claude plan crowd. Their X feed is completely different. While I get a crazy amount of knowledge from this site it comes with decent bit of anxiety as well. There’s a shitload of noise to find the actual signal. That’s the apparent trade off — a sense of impending doom and feeling like if I don’t immediately test this platform/load this skill/build this workflow/try this model, etc…in exchange for what a never ending stream of knowledge from some genuinely brilliant people.

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  Minh Nguyệt🌙 (@mnguyetinvests) reported 13 minutes ago

  @_tinatruth Steve Bartlett explained financial bubbles in one minute. The AOL–Time Warner story is a powerful reminder that HIGH VALUATION IS NOT THE SAME AS REAL VALUE. It reminded me of something I wrote on August 17 on my post 👇 A GREAT ASSET doesn’t automatically make a GREAT INVESTMENT. Pay too much, and your returns can suffer. Allocate too much capital, and one mistake can damage your entire portfolio. That’s why I believe good investing isn’t just about choosing the right asset. It’s about paying the RIGHT PRICE and sizing your position wisely. The AOL–Time Warner story didn’t teach me that lesson. It reinforced it. If you haven’t read my August 17 post yet, I think it adds another perspective to this conversation. 👇

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  joubalspacker (@joubalspacker) reported 17 minutes ago

  @thenarr47271717 @Bit_Faced @theswansjr Your analogy is a bit off Current Bitcoin is not 'The Internet' but more akin to the walled garden of America Online capable of serving only a select few... AOL was consumed by the wider permissionless network that served everybody... If BTC can only serve the masses via custodians it will be no different than a CBDC => It will be outcompeted by a freer money