AOL outages and service status in Shady Side, Maryland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Shady Side, Maryland

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

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  🄾🅃🅃🄾 🅃🄾🄿🄲🄸 for Congress (@OttoTopci) reported 2 minutes ago

  @cecsquared @craasch @3YearLetterman That’s quite an admission of guilt. Cancel yore AOL account.

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  HLoR+Shada (@HLoRShada) reported 4 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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  OldMAGAMan (@MikeWyatt43600) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Soaringeagle45 19 for me. Never had an AOL address.

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  Sloppy Barris (@sloppybarris) reported 8 minutes ago

  If you wanna know more you can **** all the way off (to one of my x-rays). I leave the pii on most of the time. AOL keyword: spine, maybe. Or ask me anything!

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  liberty91362 (@liberty91362) reported 8 minutes ago

  @brivael I worked at Time Warner for 24 years, and lost hundreds of thousands of my 401k in the infamous AOL merger that killed off the greatest media company in the world—the worst merger in corporate history. I mostly blame Steve Case and his other AOL cronies, who dumped all their stock right at the merger, while all the TW Execs and employees kept their stock and lost billions. I remember McKinsey’s empty suits seemed to be everywhere at Time Warner in its dying years, and it always seemed like McKinsey helped orchestrate its collapse.

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  Nicole (@statuescrumbled) reported 8 minutes ago

  @BrianEntin Happy to have you in Loudoun. We were also told these awful buildings would only be up for ten years. The reason the built them here was bc of the original AOL infrastructure which never made any sense to me and is now clearly a lie. They have RUINED our beautiful county.

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  Levity (@LevityODonnell) reported 9 minutes ago

  None of them have ever rung me. I got to the MSN point, adding people. I never got to the AOL AIM level they were all on. No one would share the lists with me.

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  𐡀 (@Xyleniqq) reported 12 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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  SockbatReplica (@SockbatReplica) reported 14 minutes ago

  The funny thing is if you just cancelled your internet after the trial period AOL would just mail you another trial disk. We never paid for internet when I was a kid.

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  c000game (@c000game) reported 25 minutes ago

  @neogeo8man Honestly a fascinating bit of internet history fluff to me that my generation HATED "lol" and saw it as a sign of endless inept low-IQ ****-humor AOL/CompuServ migrants. Then we gradually started using it ironically, like "lol" for "how stupid". Then we just started meaning "heh"