AOL outages and service status in Apex, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Apex, North Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Apex, North Carolina 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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  A variation of 𐤀𐤄𐤓𐤍 (@Peacock486) reported 2 minutes ago

  @BrianRoemmele "Family Drθne!" & the IE-like window that the desktop is *inside of* & the smooth progress bar & AOL never looked like that this is what you get with people who weren't there - and guess what, this is NORMAL in human history.

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  Richard Lawson (@Ole_richie_rich) reported 5 minutes ago

  Cartoon Network games and AOL chat rooms

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  #iheartMichaeljackson (@Sassy_Diva_2487) reported 8 minutes ago

  @AOL Oh look, another day, another broke-*** tabloid skeleton rattling its bones for clicks in 2026. @AOL yes, the same @AOL that’s been gasping for relevance since dial-up died rolling up like “Hey guys, remember that time we tried to cancel Michael Jackson with a raid that turned up NOTHING? Let’s rehash the ‘infamous’ Neverland Ranch again because Netflix needs your streams and we need ad revenue from you dummies who still click this trash

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  Big Cat Sports (@bsports1234) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Xfinity resorting to the old AOl tactics of their web site not working and constantly logging you out or "technical issues" when trying to pull up your bill.

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  Ole G (@whymadoindis) reported 10 minutes ago

  @dotkrueger It's all dogshit IMO. It will tumble down and something else will take its place. This is AOL.

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  Emily (@Ult1moHombre) reported 12 minutes ago

  @hthieblot I loved AOL. I was like 11-12 and spent hours curating my AIM profile and/or arguing about this or that in chats & forums. I remember obsessing over defending this awful movie, "Simply Irresistible", for days.

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  Brooklyn Fletch (@bklynfletchIV) reported 13 minutes ago

  @vivien2112 @GarlicRush 19. Never had an AOL email address. Believe i started with either yahoo or Netcom.

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  Brit. 💛 (@simmerdownbrit) reported 19 minutes ago

  This is wild af but when our internet was down as a teen I had a collection of these bad bois to use. Idk how it worked and my mom eventually told me she had to call so many times to cancel AOL

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  🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 (@agtprpnabsrdty) reported 24 minutes ago

  Different decade, same math: half the S&P 500 is priced at levels that a dot-com CEO called proof of investor insanity while watching his company crater 90%. The rotation at the top: In early 2000, the ten most valuable S&P 500 companies read like a monument to permanent dominance: Microsoft, General Electric, Cisco, Walmart, ExxonMobil, Intel, Lucent, IBM, Citigroup, AOL. A generation later, only Microsoft remains. GE was carved into three separate companies. Lucent was absorbed by Nokia. AOL became the cautionary tale attached to the worst merger in corporate history. Cisco and Intel spent 25 years climbing back to their dot-com peaks. Citigroup, IBM, Walmart, and ExxonMobil still exist, but none crack the top ten. The new top ten is Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and the AI infrastructure complex. Investors in 2000 were also certain they were buying the future's permanent giants. The data says most of today's winners won't be in the top ten a generation from now either, and there is no mechanism by which you find out which ones survive in advance. The valuation problem: In 2002, after Sun Microsystems collapsed 90%, CEO Scott McNealy explained to investors exactly what a 10x sales multiple actually demands: 100% of revenues paid as dividends for ten consecutive years, with zero costs, zero R&D, zero taxes, and zero employees. He was describing the math of the price investors had paid for his stock as a form of collective psychosis. Today, 51% of the S&P 500 by market cap trades above 10x sales. Half the index. The AI narrative is functioning as the dot-com narrative functioned: a story compelling enough to make the math feel optional. The math has never been optional.

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  Ian ᯅ (@somenuso) reported 24 minutes ago

  @POTFES This is not accurate. The DMA, DSA, AI Act, and similar frameworks are not examples of member states forcing Brussels to overregulate. They are EU level regulatory projects, proposed, negotiated, adopted, and enforced through the EU institutional system. Member states are part of that machine, but pretending the problem is only national fragmentation conveniently ignores what Brussels itself is doing. And yes, a deeper internal market would be useful. Easier company formation, better access to capital, lower compliance costs, cheaper energy, and less fragmentation would help. But that is not the same as giving the Commission more power to micromanage technology. If American tech dominates, Europe should compete by building better products on honest market terms, not by regulating superior foreign companies and hoping European champions appear afterward. Markets are not static. IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, BlackBerry, Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, and many others once looked dominant in their own domains. They were challenged, displaced, or diminished because better technologies, better products, and better business models emerged. That is how real competition works. Innovation comes from builders, capital, talent, risk, and consumer choice. It does not come from Brussels officials deciding how platforms should be designed.