AOL outages and service status in Gaithersburg, Maryland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Gaithersburg, Maryland

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Gaithersburg and nearby locations:

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  William Bolan 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@CapitolRailfan) reported 6 minutes ago from Germantown View, Maryland

  Ok you new generation kids: What is AOL, and what did it used to stand for? What service did AOL have until recently? Do you know what a "dial up" is? Submit your answers below.

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  Nathan Baca (@NathanBacaTV) reported 38 minutes ago from Germantown View, Maryland

  @LauraGellerTV You apparently didn’t see my smoke signal, can on a string or AOL Instant Message.

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  Timothy Larkin (@timothyjlarkin) reported 54 minutes ago from Olney, Maryland

  @BillSimmons Like trying to cancel AOL back in the day...

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Amazing.AI. (@amazing_AI_) reported 7 minutes ago

  @ThisOldTech2 As a computer user since '94, I'm trying to figure out why I never got a browser in a box. of course, I did access the Web through AOL at the beginning. 🤔

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  Shmuel Londner 🇮🇱 (@ShmuelLon) reported 7 minutes ago

  Something about $BSP: they bought AOL at a 5x income before tax, which is optically cheap right? The small issue is that they bought it from Apollo and imho there's zero chance Apollo got a bad deal

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  FlandoCalrissian (@FlandoCalrissan) reported 9 minutes ago

  @theamelia___ 19. Never had an AOL address

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  Ken Murphy (@Murphs51) reported 9 minutes ago

  @pinktastic615 AOL...heard some horrible things bout them after all these years! Mum used to write letters, and send photos to family, but most never bothered, so she finally just stopped! Now, I only keep in touch with family/friends back home, and they always reciprocate!

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  Fred Johnston (@JohnstonFredJ) reported 10 minutes ago

  @getwhatugive @LynAldenContact You’re collapsing the product and the protocol. BlackRock/MSTR make money if demand for bitcoin rises. Demand rises when access gets easier: brokerage accounts, 401ks, treasuries, Lightning, hardware wallets. Shrinking the buyer pool would hurt their bags. That’s the opposite incentive of “reduce access.” Early internet had AOL too. Walled gardens expanded the user base first. The open network still won because the protocol wasn’t owned by AOL.Same here. An ETF is not a modem ban. Anyone can still run a node, hold keys, and send sats. Institutions can offer a wrapper. They cannot revoke the chain. “Gemini agrees” is not an argument. The music-sharing analogy also fails: Napster was illegal and centralized. Bitcoin settles on a public ledger. You don’t sterilize that by listing a ticker.

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  Victor (@gvictor808) reported 13 minutes ago

  @brockpierson Yes. Prodigy (Prodigy Interactive Personal Service) was a commercial online service that people accessed with a dial-up modem over regular phone lines. It launched publicly in 1988 as a joint venture of IBM and Sears (originally developed as Trintex with CBS). You installed their client software on a PC or Mac, the program dialed a local access number, and you connected at typical early speeds of 1200 or 2400 bps. Later they added faster modem support and, in 1994, web access. It was one of the “big three” consumer online services of that era, alongside CompuServe and AOL. Users got news, weather, email, bulletin boards, shopping, stocks, games, and similar features through a graphical interface—not the open internet at first. Startup kits sometimes even bundled a modem. The classic Prodigy service ran until the late 1990s; after that it shifted toward being an ISP before fading out.

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  Nyadnar#17 (@Nyadnar17) reported 16 minutes ago

  @LitterboxComics I was a new dad trying to research way to help my wife. Been trolling the depths of the internet for fun since AOL was a thing. I was not prepared for the deprivation and inhumanity I found in online parenting forums.

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  Minnow (@Phila_Mino) reported 16 minutes ago

  No Nick, I'm done talking about dad. I'm exhausted, let him cancel his own AOL subscription and change the TV input by himself, I'm out.

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  Jay $ick (@JaySick78) reported 18 minutes ago

  @brockpierson Damn, I forgot those days... and forget trying to download a pic from AOL online to see who you are talking to. A/S/L

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  Kathleen Lenkeit voted for Hillary, Joe, & Kamala (@KathleenLenkeit) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Sheldon_305 19 - never on AOL