AOL outages and service status in St. Louis, Missouri

Problems in the last 24 hours in St. Louis, Missouri

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in St. Louis, 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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AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ⚔️Tina Truth⚔️ (@_tinatruth) reported 6 minutes ago

  But AOL knew a threat was approaching. Broadband internet was gaining momentum. The problem? AOL’s business model was built for the old internet. The slow, dial-up world. To compete with broadband, AOL thought it needed something it didn’t yet have: World-class content. A merger with Time Warner would give AOL access to some of the most valuable media properties in the world. Together, they believed they could dominate the future of the internet.

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  simone (@synthetican1mal) reported 7 minutes ago

  horrible map. five guys and aol are from nova not ******* hampton roads. two completely different worlds

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  real missing talon hours (@iheartlog) reported 8 minutes ago

  once the aol screenshots of them being an emetophile hit the fandom all bets were off. now it's talking about puking every night, the other band members spitting **** up constantly, etc...you love to see it.

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  Don Moulton CFP® (@MoultonWealth) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh I never had an AOL address.

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  𝕧𝕖𝕕𝕨𝕖𝕕 (@vedwed) reported 10 minutes ago

  @muheediva01 i had aol and netscape emails...what is this yahoo ****?

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  William Roddy (@WilliamRoddy14) reported 10 minutes ago

  Loudon County, VA has the highest median family income in the country. It is not the richest--Elon doesn't live there. Loudon was the headquarters of the internet 30 years ago. AOL had their HQ there. The data centers were built before residents knew about the problems.

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  Leigh (@LAB019) reported 11 minutes ago

  @jwalkermobile All but one, I never had an AOL email address.

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  Virginia Ray (@VirginaRay57067) reported 17 minutes ago

  @thorMjolniro It turned out AOL never said that. MB checked it out. AND it turned out to be false. Because I do think she is stupid I believed it and did not check it with grok.

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  PPE (@planert41) reported 19 minutes ago

  The internet enabled "connectivity". All these isolated pockets of information and communities and people always existed before, but being able to connect them together with the internet was what created the huge marginal value. I think the gains falls into 3 general buckets: 1) Connecting/Aggregating supply and demand. People have way more choices now from both supply and demand side - Amazon, Facebook (for human interests/social communities) 2) Efficiency gains from better coordination - Amazon 2 Day Delivery. 3) Frictionless instant distribution - Netflix streaming movies into your home Everyone has been talking about who extracts the most value from the AI stack, and if you look at the internet it's undoubtedly the applications that did. The rest of the stack essentially became commoditized. So let's get back to AI. In the same vein, i think AI enables "intelligence". Before this if you wanted to build a website, you had to hire someone who had the "intelligence" or gain the "intelligence" yourself to build it. Now you just ask AI and it does it for you. Intelligence/Execution is now cheap. Everyone has an intelligent PHD who knows a little of everything working for them on their computer now. OpenAI/Anthropic doesn't feel too different than say AOL back in the day when it was the only way consumers could access the internet. Eventually people had alternatives and it went away although for the internet providers, AOL didn't necessarily provide "better" internet than its competitors but the frontier AI models could potentially. AI Chips/Hardware now don't seem too dissimilar to how modems/routers/optic cables were for the internet. It'll still be short squeezed in the short term, but we'll eventually get more alternatives and supply. Energy/infrastructure - Eventually ppl will build data centers in the middle of nowhere with energy supply and it'll be fine. There will be alternatives. So i think eventually all the value will accrue to the application layer as everything else gets commoditized? But what would those applications look like? One thought experiment would be to consider which companies/products couldn't exist without the internet. Everyone in FAANG could be considered here, so maybe the trick is to find companies that couldn't exist without AI? Walmart would still exist without the internet, but not Amazon. Amazon figured out how to give itself an unfair advantage with the internet. Google obviously couldn't exist without the internet. So what are the similar parallels for AI? Maybe something like Harvey? What could i do with AI that i couldn't before (besides coding?). Most things still just feel like marginal efficiency gains (besides coding), instead of completely newly unlocked capabilities. I could imagine like a personal AI health assistant that will give you the vitamins or cook personalized meals (via contractor) you need everyday based on your data. Or maybe like an AI home system that helps you schedule for maintenance/repairs without you needing to think about it? Perhaps the internet solved the distribution problem, so the bet should just be on companies who already have a lock on distribution like $CRM and bet that they'll figure AI out. But perhaps we still need more time for AI to play out to identify these potential long term winners. We still don't really know what we can actually do with AI yet

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  Roy Mueller (@RoyMueller13) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh 18. Never had an AOL address and never had a walkman