AOL outages and service status in Bowie, Maryland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Bowie, Maryland

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Moe of No Words Barred Podcast (@MoeBeKnowin) reported 5 minutes ago

  I’ll never forget AOL 4.0 that supported “broadband” internet. That version was a changer.

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  ardizor 🧙‍♂️ (@ardizor) reported 10 minutes ago

  SPACEX IS THE FINAL LIQUIDITY EVENT BEFORE IT ALL BREAKS The most overvalued market in 100 years and retail is still buying This pattern has appeared before every major crash in modern history. Not most of them. All of them. Dot-com: internet was real, Nasdaq lost 78% Housing: real estate was real, $8 trillion disappeared AI: technology is real just like the others were The technology being real has never stopped the bubble from bursting Now SpaceX enters at $2.35 trillion, 95% of shares still locked, insider supply hitting the market on a fixed schedule starting in August Every major bubble had one final moment where retail money got pulled into the most exciting trade imaginable right before everything collapsed Dot-com had AOL. Housing had mortgage-backed securities. AI has SpaceX. Same movie. Different cast. Final act. I've called every major top and bottom for 15 years, including the $16K bottom and the $126K top both publicly, both before they happened The next call will be even more important I'll post it here publicly like I always do Turn notifications on - if you're not following yet, you'll understand why that was a mistake later

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  Mike Cecconi (@Cecconi140) reported 12 minutes ago

  The saddest thing is when the cheap ugly insulting lazy AI slop ad tells you "support local" or "thank you for supporting local" when they refused to hire a local graphic designer to use an AOL chatbot that just polluted their own water. Madness.

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  Mark Carney's Elbows (@Carneys_Elbows) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Soaringeagle45 AOL wasn't big in Canada. And I've sat on a waterbed but never slept on one.

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  WRIGHT3OUS (@WRIGHT3OUS___) reported 18 minutes ago

  @justavictim1182 @JPDenaliRocket The worst thing to happen to wrestling was aol. Steady decline

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  Yossarian’s Ghost (@RealSoCalBadger) reported 18 minutes ago

  @tylerblack32 @jaypo1961 It’s like the Bat Signal, doc. The message goes out on the MAGA idiot network and all the little MAGATS get their talking points downloaded to their AOL accounts.

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  𐡀 (@Xyleniqq) reported 20 minutes ago

  My 86 year-old father called me at 2 AM because he accidentally joined a Discord server and thought he was being "recruited by the internet." I answered the phone half asleep. "They're in the computer," he said. "Who's in the computer?" "The voices. There are young people. They're talking. I think I've been hacked." I sat up. "Dad, what are you talking about?" "I clicked something and now there's a room full of people and they keep saying my name." My blood pressure spiked. I thought maybe he'd stumbled into some kind of scam call center or ransomware situation. "Don't click anything else," I said. "I'm coming over." I drove twenty minutes to his house at 2:30 in the morning. When I walked in, he was sitting at his computer, headphones around his neck, looking absolutely terrified. "They know I'm here," he whispered. I looked at the screen. He had somehow joined a Discord server called "Chill Vibes Gaming." There were about forty people in a voice channel. And in the chat, someone had typed: "Yo who is CrazyDave1938 and why is he breathing so loud?" CrazyDave1938 was my father. "Dad, how did you even get here?" "I was trying to download solitaire." "THIS ISN'T SOLITAIRE." "I KNOW THAT NOW." Apparently, he clicked an ad, which led to a download, which installed Discord, which auto-connected him to some random public server. And he'd been sitting in a voice chat for forty-five minutes, not speaking, just listening. The people in the chat were confused but remarkably patient. One of them typed: "CrazyDave, are you okay? Blink twice if you need help." My father had no camera on, so blinking was not an option. I leaned over and typed: "Sorry, this is his son. He's 86 and very confused. He thought this was solitaire." The chat exploded. "LMAOOO." "Protect CrazyDave at all costs." "Dave you're a legend." Someone changed his server nickname to "Grandpa Dave." My father looked at me, bewildered. "Are they laughing at me?" "They love you." He squinted at the screen. "What is this place?" "It's like a chat room." "Like AOL?" "Sure, Dad. Like AOL." He thought about it for a second. "Can I stay?" I stared at him. "You want to stay in the gaming Discord?" "They seem nice. That one called me a legend." I didn't know what to say. I helped him figure out how to mute himself, showed him how to leave and rejoin, and drove home. That was three months ago. He's still in the server. He logs in every night around 8 PM and just listens. Occasionally he types things like "Good game everyone" even though he's never played anything. Last week someone made him a moderator as a joke. He took it very seriously. He now removes "inappropriate language" and once banned someone for "being rude to a young lady." The server has doubled in size. Half the new members joined specifically because they heard about Grandpa Dave. My father has become a Discord celebrity at 86 years old. He still doesn't know what Discord is. He calls it "the solitaire room." I've stopped correcting him.

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  Kevin Jones (@NomentionofKev) reported 24 minutes ago

  @LexiAIexander Not crazy making, it's by design. AI frustrates the customer & impedes any real change to the account because even canceling a subscription becomes a tour de force with its labyrinthian path to a result. My old cable company has this system which replicates AOL in its last days.

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  HLoR+Shada (@HLoRShada) reported 25 minutes ago

  Genuine Question: How long were you on a social media app before you realized you didn't HAVE to respond/defend yourself to every idiot who rudely attacked you for having an opinion? Because I just got that epiphany and I was there for AOL dialup. 😶

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  Miniature Birdie (@MiniatureBirdie) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Pirat_Nation iCloud email sucks ***** anyway. Tons and tons and tons of spam targets it. Just about anything else is better. Even AOL.