AOL outages and service status in Cary, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Cary, North Carolina

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

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

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  This is Me (@C_Babel) reported 26 minutes ago from Raleigh, North Carolina

  @HungLee It’s almost as bad as a Juno or AOL account @ this point

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Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Patrick Joseph (@Patrick28824031) reported 4 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 I got 19. I never used the AOL address

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  Just Adam 👍 (@1Coys69) reported 6 minutes ago

  I am 4 months into a sky puck subscription. On account I never get to finish watching a program because I get kicked off or get told the program is loading and is laggy to xxck. It's useless. Can I cancel my subscription. It's like I'm using AOL dial up to connect. @SkyHelpTeam

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  The maestro (@maestroslay) reported 10 minutes ago

  Marc Andreessen wrote a browser at 22 and took a company with no profits public at $2,900,000,000 in a single day. He built Mosaic as a student employee at the University of Illinois supercomputing center, paid $6.85 an hour. It was the first browser that showed images alongside text. The university claimed the software. He left for California, and Jim Clark, who had already founded Silicon Graphics, funded him to build it again from scratch. Netscape Navigator shipped in late 1994 and took most of the web inside months. The IPO came in August 1995, 16 months after founding. The company had almost no revenue and no profit at all. Shares were set at $28 and opened at $71. The close valued Netscape near $2,900,000,000. Wall Street had never priced a company on future users instead of earnings. Every dot-com listing that followed used the template. Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows for free. Netscape sold to AOL in 1999 and the browser disappeared. He co-founded Andreessen Horowitz in 2009 and now writes the checks. He proved a company could be worth billions before it made a dollar.

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  TheMadComputerScientist 🇺🇸 (@KurtAndrews) reported 15 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 20, but maybe 19. I never had aol. I used Prodigy. Have you ever even heard of that service?

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  Drea (@DreaC20) reported 17 minutes ago

  @pitbullmom99999 @JackMeoff781 I sent messages like that in AOL chat rooms when I was like 13. Feeling pretty or validated by someone complimenting/supporting you…. but it’s not you…. Or your story…. Or the truth…. 😬 wild ****

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  Yossi Hasson (@yossihasson) reported 18 minutes ago

  Then on 1 December 1996, AOL went flat rate. $19.95. Unlimited. Average usage went from 7 hours a month to 23. The network collapsed. Customers sued. States opened investigations. The CEO had to publicly ask 8 million people to please use the internet less.

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  Mr Tupids 🍆 (@MrTupids) reported 18 minutes ago

  @hthieblot Excite chat was awesome. But PEAK for me using Progs in the AOL 3.0 days. I would go into chat rooms and if someone was rude, I would enter their screen name into my prog, it would send them an IM and all they would hear is “Goodbye” and then they would be logged off for 45 minutes. I think it was called “dolphin” or something.

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  DΞNVΞR_DONKΞY 🫏 🏔️🥽⚡️🫏 (@denver_donkey) reported 18 minutes ago

  You know who never said they needed money for my email storage… AOL

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  VibeDraft (@vibedraft_app) reported 19 minutes ago

  spent the morning mapping the 90s internet buildout against the ai era, layer by layer. the rhyme is almost suspicious. 1. the protocol layer. tcp/ip and http were deliberately dumb, open, and free. they beat richer closed rivals (aol, gopher) on adoption, not capability. gopher died from a licensing announcement, not even enforcement. mcp is running the same play: simple, open since late 2024, adopted by every rival lab within months. the lesson transfers: protocols stay dominant only while they stay credibly free. 2. picks and shovels. cisco sold the routers of the boom and became the most valuable company on earth in march 2000. then the buildout paused and the stock took 25 years to reclaim its peak. shovel revenue is a derivative of capex sentiment, not end-user value. nvidia is playing the same role beat for beat, including the most-valuable-company milestone. 3. the capability curve. every app category had a modem speed where it became viable. text at 2400 baud, images at 14.4k, e-commerce at 28.8, napster at 56k. context windows, tool-use reliability, and cost per token are the new baud rates. the question that printed money in 1994 still works: what just became viable this year that wasn't last year? 4. the trust layer. this is the interesting one. in 1994 the web was read-only and nobody would type a credit card into it. then four boring primitives shipped almost at once: cookies (1994, state), ssl + verisign (1995, identity), online payments (netmarket 1994, paypal 1998), and reputation scores (ebay 1995). a controlled experiment later showed ebay's feedback scores earned sellers 8.1% higher willingness to pay. trust primitives, not storefronts, were the moats. agents in 2026: no portable memory, identity duct-taped with api keys, no native machine payments, and tool trust decided by github stars and vibes. we are standing in 1994 of this layer. all four are unclaimed. 5. discovery. yahoo hand-curated a directory. it broke at scale. altavista indexed what pages said about themselves. it got spammed. google won by mining a signal the web deposited as a side effect: links as votes. mcp registries today are the yahoo phase. the pagerank of agents, invocations as votes, does not exist yet. the internet's biggest fortunes came from the boring layer, built in the four years after the protocol went open. mcp went open 20 months ago. the clock is running.

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  Lee Rafferty (@LoboLee2626) reported 21 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 17 for me. Never had an AOL address and I don't remember ever sending a postcard or listening to a walkman.