AOL outages and service status in Joplin, Missouri

Problems in the last 24 hours in Joplin, Missouri

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

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  Brett Caughran (@FundamentEdge) reported 11 seconds ago

  My playful analogy is we are in the AOL era of AI. Early stage of a revolutionary technology, but the delivery mechanism is still clunky, requiring really dumb concepts like prompt engineering. In 1996, you couldn't even imagine business models like Uber, Netflix, the iPhone, YouTube or Tesla FSD, because the technology wasn't even close to capable or cost effective enough. From 1996-2006 global data volume grew by a factor of 10,000,000x (per Gemini), but that growth was hugely deflationary (wholesale IP transit cost down 99%), i.e. good for the application layer and selectively bad for the pipe owners (telecom). Overall, the mix of massive volume growth offset against gnarly price deflation has been a, net/net, positive thing for telecom investing. Does that hold for the frontier labs? "Intelligence pipe" feels like it can be a pretty damn awesome business, but, like telecoms, the evolution of "intelligence pipe as a business" will be extremely path dependent and will require real business models with attractive unit economics to fund. Obviously most of the 90's era telecoms went bust and the assets were only financially productive for the 2nd or 3rd owners, mostly due to balance sheet issues & the subsequent closing of the capital markets window. Though capital markets have evolved materially since the early 2000's telecom bust with a regulatory environment more supportive of monopolies/oligopolies and private capital markets more supportive of funding massive cash burn (to wit, I think it's a really bad idea for Anthropic to IPO in '26, but what do I know?). So imagine that prior but like 10-100x the size of the internet. Maybe more? As in 1996 when you couldn't even envision Netflix/Uber, the iPhone or Tesla FSD, we have zero idea what 2056 looks like, but the exponential will certainly drive even more upside uncertainty in technology. idk, hard to be structurally bearish on the "intelligence pipe" and subsequently, infrastructure that feeds the pipe (though it feels certain there will be super gnarly potholes, messy shakeouts, and bankruptcies along the way, as we saw in telecom evolution), and ultimately what matters is free cash flow production, which feeds from the intersection of exponential volumes against unit level deflation. What's exciting to me with the improvement in the models, both frontier like Fable/Sol and open source like Kimi/GLM/Deep-Seek, is you are getting *closer* to seeing a real application layer possible in a very intellectually difficult sandbox like public market investing. Nearly four years from GPT 3.5 demo, we still aren't there. We are still in the "AOL era" - too slow, not competent enough, too expensive. But we are getting closer. So are we exiting the AOL era? It feels to me like we might be. If I had to guess, my guess is the frontier labs continue to be good businesses (and extremely volatile public stocks), mostly due to the reflexive nature of capital markets & talent acquisition. But what seems really obvious, to me, is that 2026-2036 is going to be the era of the application layer, where the Travis Kalanick-style entrepreneur takes this "intelligence pipe" and envisions new & groundbreaking businesses that change the world. That entrepreneurial accelerate will drive durable and accelerating demand for the intelligence pipe, it seems. It's a really exciting time to be alive.

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  CapeHeaven (@capeheaven) reported 4 minutes ago

  @AOLSupportHelp I keep getting marketing emails from an official AOL Email address, even though I have all my communication preferences turned off. Help.

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  Kaworu (@kaworu0x) reported 10 minutes ago

  Nicole Richie says her first boyfriend cheated on her three times - including once on Disneyland’s Peter Pan ride “My first real boyfriend’s AOL name was ‘Playa4Life.’” “I was devastated and shocked to my core when he cheated on me.” “He cheated on me three times.” “Once was on the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland.” “One of the girls called me and told me he said we were broken up.” “So we called him on conference - and he admitted it.”

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  Jason Wagner (@nialscorva) reported 12 minutes ago

  @hog_lawyer @SamJSchoenberg @JeremiahDJohns All of that is in Fairfax, next county over. Data centers in Loudoun is largely the legacy of UUNET, AOL, Network Solutions, etc based out of the Dulles Corridor. The density of connectivity and power is self-reinforcing. Big defense contractors are small part of it.

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  Jay Rundle (@rundle_r) reported 12 minutes ago

  @JohannBiermann1 The bit worth adding: they never sell what they buy, so this isn't a flipper; it's more like a hospice for tired apps that turns a profit. AOL and Evernote under one Italian roof is a sentence that shouldn't exist but does.

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  Chudfox (@theoldestmf1) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AnimusOakley @darlingstrawbie I got a girlfriend IRL from being a ASL retard on AOL

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  Silencerr (@SilencerGG) reported 13 minutes ago

  @slime_machine If spaces are your issue, I don't have anything to worry about. I'm not winning a writing prize to speak to people casually. If my spaces are a problem for you I do not care. BUT since I am a " millennial " I will tell you why, I was taught how to type on OLD ****. Technically computers just started getting popular, AOL and **** was out at the time. And in my Typing class, i was taught to use 2 spaces which before Gen Z was born, 2 spaces is what typewriters used for spacing and formatting clarifying the beginning of a new sentence. MODERN times only call for 1 space. So if you truly are wondering why I use two spaces its because i was taught by Boomers to type. One space is what Gen Z is used to. 2 Spaces is what i was taught by people who used typewriters. Even using one space to me looks like a run on sentence because one space separates every word in a sentence, and for me to start a new sentence means i should space it out more for ' formatting ' purposes I hope that helps everyone who took their time to only care about how i typed what i wrote instead of WHAT i actually wrote.

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  Gretchen (@mkeGingerGal) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AshleyInMKE 19. Never had an aol account.

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  JustThatGuy👨‍💼 (@JustThatGuyAdam) reported 15 minutes ago

  @klove0518 What an AWFUL aol screen name

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  Jordan “PseudoFinn” Wheatley ✝️🇻🇦🇺🇸🇫🇮 (@ThePseudoFinn) reported 16 minutes ago

  @LarryBundyJr Thank god for the fan-made Insignia Live online service as most of those update patches and DLC are now available to download and install again, though EA used their own servers for their own games and thus the online services for them can’t be revived by fans, at least not yet anyway. Also, there was DLC on Dreamcast and even roster updates for some of the Sega Sports titles, even though keeping the DLC on the VMUs while having room for game saves was very difficult due to the paltry 200 block (about 128 KB) storage limitations. Not only that, but there were also online services for the Intellivision and the Atari 2600, in the form of PlayCable and GameLine, respectively, with the latter of the two eventually restructuring itself into what is now AOL today.