AOL outages and service status in Cherryville, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Cherryville, North Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Cherryville, 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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  TheRealKJKnight (@kknight2017) reported 1 minute ago

  @oelma__ 19/20. Never had an AOL address that I can recall.

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  kpmaloyauthor (@kpmaloyauthor) reported 2 minutes ago

  @NikoleCallihan I never had an AOL address. lol

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  Jan Stevens (@janstevens) reported 3 minutes ago

  Airtable was worth $11 billion in 2021. Bending Spoons just bought it for an equity value of $2.25 billion. That's not a down round, that's a crater — roughly 80% of the value evaporated for the VCs who backed it, including Silver Lake and Salesforce Ventures. What makes this deal different from Bending Spoons' usual playbook is the customer. Evernote, WeTransfer, AOL — those are consumer brands, and the formula was always the same: acquire, cut headcount hard, optimize monetization, never sell. WeTransfer tested that formula's limits last year when a terms update tried to claim AI-training rights over user files, and had to reverse course within days. Airtable's customer base is 80% of the Fortune 100, running actual operational workflows on the platform, not casual file transfers. The same cost-cutting and monetization playbook that worked on consumer apps runs into a different kind of resistance when the users are enterprise data teams who can migrate a workflow, but can't tolerate a surprise terms change. Bending Spoons is about to find out if the model scales up, or if it only worked because the stakes were low enough that nobody was watching closely.

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  بو صالح (@kalddan) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Brian27843245 @luireigns AOL & Time Warner killed it since one of the suits after the merger was official decided that the network didn’t need wrestling and pull the plug on WCW

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  Millie Marconi (@MillieMarconnni) reported 6 minutes ago

  A programmer built a database because software on a US Navy destroyer could not afford to lose its connection. Today that tiny database sits inside every iPhone, Android phone, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, and most people have never heard his name. His name is D. Richard Hipp. The database is SQLite. In 2000, Hipp was helping build software for the USS Oscar Austin, a guided-missile destroyer. The program helped sailors respond when the ship was damaged. If a pipe burst, it could find the valves sailors needed to close, the other valves they needed to open, and exactly where each one was located. During a real attack, this could mean smoke, flooding, broken pipes, and people trying to keep the ship alive. All that information was stored inside an Informix database. When the database server worked, everything was fine. But sometimes the server went down. Sailors would open the damage-control program and get a message saying it could not connect to the database. Hipp’s team did not control the server. They still got blamed because their software showed the error. Hipp started asking a simple question: Why did the program need a database server at all? It only needed to read information from the ship’s computer. Why could it not pull that data directly from the disk? Then government funding paused, leaving Hipp without contract work for a few months. So he built the database himself. SQLite had no separate server to connect to. No administrator had to keep it running. The entire database could live inside one file, and the application could read that file directly. If the computer was working, the database was working. The Navy kept Informix as its official system, but Hipp’s team began using SQLite for development and testing. Then Hipp released it on the internet. Someone managed to run a full SQL database on a Palm Pilot. Motorola called and paid him to improve it for a new phone operating system. AOL wanted it because it needed a database small enough to fit on its installation CDs. Then Mozilla, Symbian, Adobe, Google, and countless other companies followed. When Android began shipping SQLite on millions of phones, users found bugs Hipp had never seen before. So he spent about a year working 60-hour weeks to bring it up to aviation-style testing standards. Today SQLite estimates that more than one trillion active databases may exist across the world. They store browser history, messages, settings, contacts, app data, and countless other pieces of our digital lives. The database created because a warship could not trust a server became the database billions of devices trust when no server exists.

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  kurkosdr (@kurkosdr) reported 8 minutes ago

  @heyraven_io @WildComputers How much does the creation of a single tiny hat cost you in USD? How many of your users are paying for the service? You are the equivalent of AOL giving dial-up minutes at a loss in the name of "growth" or non-viable dot-coms burning tons of VC capital in the name of "growth".

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  RaffertyRy 💙 (@RaffertyRy) reported 11 minutes ago

  @AOL email down on #Chrome, tells me I have no internet connection when I do, and that I have no emails in my inbox when I have thousands! Fine on Firefox, no problem when using that. UK. Anyone else got same??

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  Asinus Asinum Fricat (@Fricat) reported 11 minutes ago

  19. Never got AOL

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  Random HVAC Guy 🇺🇸 (@RandomHvacGuy) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ThrillaRilla369 Definitely aol chat rooms. **** was wild

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  JackiO (@Jackio49) reported 13 minutes ago

  @oelma__ 19, never had AOL, didn't like waterbeds. lol