AOL outages and service status in Boca Raton, Florida

Problems in the last 24 hours in Boca Raton, Florida

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Boca Raton, Florida 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 Boca Raton, Florida

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Boca Raton and nearby locations:

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  nBm ⬡ (@msnicolemaria) reported 54 minutes ago from Boca Raton, Florida

  someone just sent me an email from an AOL email address and I automatically marked it as spam, it’s 2019 fix it.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Ginger_on_the_go (@Gingeronthego1) reported 3 minutes ago

  @miracles7k 19 never had AOL

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  alexandra (@aewjan1965) reported 4 minutes 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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  Valphrex (@Valphrex) reported 6 minutes ago

  @oldmedia I know that this is kind of dumb, but I actually miss the AOL dial-up. It was annoying, and it kept my parents from being able to call anyone, but it was a very specific time we'll never get back. I was a young teenager experiencing online freedom for the first time.

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  Millie Marconi (@MillieMarconnni) reported 6 minutes ago

  A programmer built a database because software on a US Navy destroyer could not afford to lose its connection. Today that tiny database sits inside every iPhone, Android phone, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, and most people have never heard his name. His name is D. Richard Hipp. The database is SQLite. In 2000, Hipp was helping build software for the USS Oscar Austin, a guided-missile destroyer. The program helped sailors respond when the ship was damaged. If a pipe burst, it could find the valves sailors needed to close, the other valves they needed to open, and exactly where each one was located. During a real attack, this could mean smoke, flooding, broken pipes, and people trying to keep the ship alive. All that information was stored inside an Informix database. When the database server worked, everything was fine. But sometimes the server went down. Sailors would open the damage-control program and get a message saying it could not connect to the database. Hipp’s team did not control the server. They still got blamed because their software showed the error. Hipp started asking a simple question: Why did the program need a database server at all? It only needed to read information from the ship’s computer. Why could it not pull that data directly from the disk? Then government funding paused, leaving Hipp without contract work for a few months. So he built the database himself. SQLite had no separate server to connect to. No administrator had to keep it running. The entire database could live inside one file, and the application could read that file directly. If the computer was working, the database was working. The Navy kept Informix as its official system, but Hipp’s team began using SQLite for development and testing. Then Hipp released it on the internet. Someone managed to run a full SQL database on a Palm Pilot. Motorola called and paid him to improve it for a new phone operating system. AOL wanted it because it needed a database small enough to fit on its installation CDs. Then Mozilla, Symbian, Adobe, Google, and countless other companies followed. When Android began shipping SQLite on millions of phones, users found bugs Hipp had never seen before. So he spent about a year working 60-hour weeks to bring it up to aviation-style testing standards. Today SQLite estimates that more than one trillion active databases may exist across the world. They store browser history, messages, settings, contacts, app data, and countless other pieces of our digital lives. The database created because a warship could not trust a server became the database billions of devices trust when no server exists.

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  CALIBER50 (@Caliber50MG) reported 7 minutes ago

  @wtfcetialpha5 @brockpierson Wait…… They don’t anymore? My AOL subscription is up for renewal, and I was thinking about going with something different than my phone jack plug. Kinda sucks not being able to receive phone calls when I’m on the ‘puter!….😬

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  Voxxx (@13vRJ) reported 8 minutes ago

  @mrcauliman Despite all the noise in our little "sphere", we're still very early. Compared to the speed of internet adoption, I'd say we're still not even to that point where you had 50 CD's falling out of your mailbox from AOL and other ISP's every day. The regulations are simply a floodgate to move things along faster. The real problem is still education. Nobody wanted to learn how packets move, they just wanted to see tits online. Nobody wanted to learn html until there was a UI and MySpace made it fun.

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  larry stickovich (@stickylarry0) reported 8 minutes ago

  @hthieblot Aol chatrooms were the ****

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  𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗪𝗼𝗹𝗳𝟴𝟬𝘀 (@DarkWolf80s) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Wild_Nefari @Hulex My only reason for discord usage is for streaming & community build it has far better tools for that. TG I use it for virtually anything. But damn I do miss the days of MIRC or AOL cause when you send a file it doesn’t matter how big it was.

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  𝕘 𝕥 𝕨 𝕪 (@Gtwy) reported 17 minutes ago

  i stole the AIM passwords of everyone in my highschool and published them on my website (600 accounts) when i was in 9th grade, the school put me in a computer class with seniors cause they didn't know what to do with me. i ended up hired by the school to help with IT i was super immature despite my technical skills and i didn't have anyone around me to recognize / steer me in the right direction. adults often get confused by a kid with high intelligence and assume everything else about the kid must be on their level. well, it isn't i wrote a program and installed it as admin on every pc to extract passwords from aol instant messenger. after a couple weeks i had everyone's password i then published them all on my personal website and called them all dumbasses in the process. zero couth. total cringe. the site went "viral" in the school district and i was fired the next day when i realized the stupidity of what i had done, i was extremely embarrassed. in fact, I'm embarrassed thinking about it now, even 23+ years later. despite that, it was a major learning experience that shaped how i handle the responsibility of personal information thereafter

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  Kathryn Kimball (@KimballKathryn) reported 22 minutes ago

  @miracles7k Never had aol