AOL outages and service status in Fort Washington, Maryland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Fort Washington, Maryland

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Fort Washington, Maryland and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Live Outage Map Near Fort Washington, Maryland

The most recent AOL outage reports came from the following cities: Alexandria.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Alexandria	E-mail	28 days ago
Alexandria	E-mail	6 months ago
Alexandria	E-mail	6 months ago

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AOL Issues Reports Near Fort Washington, Maryland

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Fort Washington and nearby locations:

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  HelenHighly (@Helen_Highly) reported 2 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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  Tavon (@gatlingxyz) reported 15 minutes ago from Huntington, Virginia

  I'd known about #DnD but never played. Not even the geeks/nerds in my school played, as far as I know. And most of my schools have always been predominantly Black, so there was no representation. (I did do a lot of text based RPing on AOL tho)

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  Christina Sheryl Messenger (@Messe3Christina) reported 55 minutes 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!!

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Bill Bishop (@niubi) reported 5 minutes ago

  This pro-PRC model industry group from Silicon Valley is interesting but I think not thinking long-term. Why can’t the frontier labs do something like AOL did with its Greenhouse project and say OK, I will let you distill but we want equity in your company and/or a fee. AOL got equity for promotion/placement on the screen. (we committed 30+ million at MarketWatch, helped traffic and the ipo a lot, but worst company I have ever negotiated with). Anyway, apologies for the digression, but why couldn’t this be similar but for distillation access, and the labs like Anthropic and OpenAI could end up with a really interesting portfolio of companies, some of which might become quite valuable, and those smaller firms’ VCs could also benefit? Otherwise, does it really make sense for a huge swathe of the American technology industry to end up dependent on PRC models? Haven’t we learned any lessons from other industries where PRC firms have been able to come in at a very low cost with good products and effectively create dependencies that crowd at all other competitors? And now we are talking about the most transformative industry in many years, and it could be even worse if it’s built in part through some problematic practices in terms of distillation attacks and export control violations, if some of US government’s and frontier labs’ claims are true?

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  Param Reddy (@ParamRReddy) reported 6 minutes ago

  @TimSweeneyEpic @deanwball we can also substitute microsoft claiming open source is dangerous because instead of windows regulating the compute, oss linux is enabling compute for everyone and could result in bad actors getting access to unregulated compute. aol can say same about open internet.

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  Chris Farrell (@chrispfarrell) reported 8 minutes ago

  I think OpenAI and Anthropic might be the CompuServe and AOL of the AI era. Does anyone actually think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, X/Twitter, and all of the other big tech companies will just allow these 2 badly run startups to capture the AI market? OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat or sustainable competitive advantage. To win they have to not only develop a moat but penetrate some of the most fortified moats. Model quality isn't a moat. Kimi, Grok, Deepseek proved that. Inference will become a commodity utility that requires massive CapEx that neither can finance. Interface is where the moat is the weakest. OpenAI and Anthropic do not own the apps or the OS. The OS and apps are owned by parties who view OpenAI or Anthropic as threats, and they can complicate things very easily. As if that is not grim enough, AI sovereignty will become an issue. Consumers will want their iCloud data to stay in iCloud, their OneDrive data to stay in OneDrive, etc. Enterprise customers will want AI from their cloud providers to reduce egress and for performance + IP reasons. It is honestly hard to imagine a world where OpenAI and Anthropic survive as they are. They will either morph into companies with entirely different value offerings or die like Compuserve and AOL.

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  Jodi Andrea ₿ (@Jodiannoyed) reported 10 minutes ago

  @theliamnissan Damn just switched from AOL too

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  Francisco De Magalhaes 🇿🇦 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇦🇷 (@FrankDe99908) reported 11 minutes ago

  @4thOfJuly365 Funny enough the one I never had was an AOL account. Otherwise all of the rest. Was born in 1970.

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  BIG GAME (@flugamejames) reported 11 minutes ago

  this **** is just an aol chat room.

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  Shoestring Lab (@Shoestring_Lab) reported 12 minutes ago

  For those of you who don't know the history, MSN was originally a walled-garden dial-up online service like AOL. A couple of Microsoft engineers convinced Bill Gates to turn the entire company around and focus on the public Internet instead of the walled garden approach.

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  The Doge Triangle (@TriangleDoge) reported 12 minutes ago

  @3YearLetterman We did, you just had to use old style crap bulletin boards on platforms like AOL lol

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  Jeff Bohren (@JeffBohren) reported 23 minutes ago

  Since I have been casting aspersions on "Agile as Practiced in Nearly Every Project with a Certified Scrum Master", I should tell you about some projects I was on that worked. One on the most interesting ones was during my Network Management product development phase. I was hired by ARINC to work on software for the Iridium project. Shortly thereafter, one of the directors came up with an idea for a commercial product. He wanted a no code drag and drop UI to create a GUI to show and control SNMP values. We went to two Networld-Interop shows a year, one in Las Vegas and one in Atlanta. He wanted a new minor release for each trade show. The product owner would give the dev team a list of prioritized features. The five developers would meet and decide what we could do by the next release and worked in order of priority. That's it. Simple and effective. The code was written in C/C++ and was written to run on Windows, SunOS, HP-UX, and AIX. We used a OSS GUI library called InterViews. It integrated with HP OpenView and IBM NetView. From a business perspective, the project was a failure. We made sales, but not enough. Eventually the project was terminated an we were all laid off. That is when I was hire by AOL, but that is another story.

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  Bill Bishop (@niubi) reported 24 minutes ago

  This pro-PRC model industry group from Silicon Valley is interesting but I think not thinking long-term. Why can’t the frontier labs do something like AOL did with its Greenhouse project and say OK, I will let you distill but we want equity in your company and/or a fee. AOL got equity for promotion/placement on the screen. (we committed 30+ million at MarketWatch, helped traffic and the ipo a lot, but worst company I have ever negotiated with). Anyway, apologies for the digression, but why couldn’t this be similar but for distillation access, and the labs like Anthropic and OpenAI could end up with a really interesting portfolio of companies, some of which might become quite valuable, and those smaller firms’ VCs could also benefit? Otherwise, does it really make sense for a huge swathe of the American technology industry to end up dependent on PRC models? Haven’t we learned any lessons from other industries where PRC firms have been able to come in at a very low cost with good products and effectively create dependencies that crowd at all other competitors? And now we are talking about the most transformative industry in many years, and it could be even worse if it’s built in part through some problematic practices in terms of distillation attacks and export control violations, if some of US government’s and frontier labs’ claims are true?