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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  Kryptowe (@Kryptowe_) reported 4 minutes ago

  @itsme_urstruly I'd gladly take the days of dial up and that aol instant messenger door slam any day over the garbage we have now.

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  Rhiyddun (@rhiyddun) reported 7 minutes ago

  @nikitabier perhaps I'm just being a nostalgic boomer dinosaur, but back when it was uunet and BBS's like BIX or AOL, and nobody got paid, you just said what you said and the various communities policed their own, tight or loose. The whole alt. tree was a bit surreal, but by and large it was real discussion, sharing of info, etc. without very many of these constant influencer flame wars for clix and a dozen reposts of something only a little further down in my feed. Now we add a whole attack vector on sanity with the short form videos Elon has said rot your brain. I don't need to bother grokadoodle and ask if there's a pattern.

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  PublicLikeAFrog (@PublicBogFrog) reported 12 minutes ago

  @raheelys Dad was given it at a conference, I think the pitch was you could scan academic cites with it? Never even saw a :c anywhere. It was like AOL keywords that need hardware more than QR codes. Tamagotchi + Monster Rancher would have been a better move.

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  Kayvee (@AlmostGuiltless) reported 14 minutes ago

  @uaivito AOL chatrooms, ICQ, MSN… and the emotional damage of hearing the dial-up internet sound while your mom yelled to get off the phone.

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  Steve Albrecht (@DrSteveAlbrecht) reported 15 minutes ago

  I consider the Postal Service’s biggest failure in the early Internet era was not giving an email address to everyone. Instead, they delivered AOL CDs to people who set up an email with them. Imagine if everybody had @usps.com email address. They would have made a fortune.

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  Brava Persona (@capodtuti) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Masterji_UPWale You are right. I have had a yahoo account since 2006 till date, never have they asked me to buy more space. Same thing with AOL email account. But here we are, Gmail is asking me to buy more space

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  BACK10erd (**** the 🦋 app)  (@Nin10erd) reported 21 minutes ago

  Indie show discourse is so rancid that it just makes me not want to get invested in indie shows. It sucks here and it sucks on Bluesky. tbh it sucks anywhere it happens. Do it on AOL messenger if ya want, it'll still suck

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  Beefy (King) (@dafullpackage) reported 22 minutes ago

  @djvlad You need to stop tricking and announcing it. Paying for free **** is ain't a flex, plus AOL opened the floodgates in the 90s

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  Pill (@Tweetpill) reported 25 minutes ago

  @ClownWorld And AOL shuts down. Ha!

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  Today in Tech History (@TodayInTechHist) reported 28 minutes ago

  @chucktodd They were successful because they pivoted so well. They started as an online gaming store for Atari, but learned from each failure and found the real customer need. Learn the AOL origin story in today’s thread