AOL outages and service status in Kinston, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Kinston, North Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Kinston, 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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  Vera Eyzendooren (@AlwaysRightUSA) reported 41 seconds ago

  Does @AOL intentionally block users of over 30 years not to be able to update list or contact so they sign up for paid service? I cannot update contact, edit contact, edit list

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  Ike (@Iken75) reported 6 minutes ago

  @muheediva01 Hmm, a lot of people seem to think Wi-Fi=internet for some reason. There was no wireless internet. It was landline POTS at your house and maybe if you were lucky you had access to a business or school that could afford to lease a T1. In home broadband wasn't a thing yet, it was super expensive, and the internet was often gated through online service providers like AOL, and the original OSP's like Prodigy and CompuServe were still around. This is before even napster, so p2p music downloads weren't really happening yet either. You could play Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, minesweeper or Tetris on your PC. If you had Prodigy you could play MadMaze. The original Civilization and Sid Meier's Pirates! were out then as well. Most days during the summer I would go out and try and get a pickup basketball or baseball game going. If that failed I'd read a book or build **** with legos. After dinner if I wasn't in trouble and had done my chores I could play videogames. I had two sisters I had to share PC and internet time with. It wasn't super common to have a TV in your bedroom, and I didn't. So if you wanted to watch a show or a movie you had to gain consensus.

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  Will Schryver (@Will_Schryver) reported 7 minutes ago

  2000–2002: Bubble, Terror & Scandal 2000: NASDAQ peaks at 5,048 (March 10) and begins a 78% collapse. AOL announces the $165B Time Warner merger — the worst deal ever 2001: 9/11 closes markets until Sept 17 — the longest shutdown since 1914. Enron collapses in December 2002: WorldCom's $11B fraud → Sarbanes-Oxley. The bear bottoms in October, down 49%

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  David R (@Deemakesmoney) reported 12 minutes ago

  @muheediva01 Login to AOL

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  George Cheng (@MrGeorgeCheng) reported 16 minutes ago

  AOL had 30M users, and the internet locked down. Then the open web ate it. Anthropic and OpenAI are playing AOL right now. The Fable 5 rug pull just showed every enterprise exactly what it looks like to depend on closed AI. The off switch exists. Someone else holds it. Llama, Mistral, Qwen - they're not "almost as good" anymore. For most enterprise workloads, they're good enough. And they run on your own hardware. Apple MLX + NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops + rapidly improving open weights = the mainframe-to-PC transition, happening in real time. Open-source AI will do to Frontier Labs what the open internet did to AOL. History doesn't always repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. The only question is how long you keep building on someone else's infrastructure before you start owning yours.

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  Gary Dauphin (@GeeDeezyDauphin) reported 17 minutes ago

  @TTrimoreau Anyone remember Apple's EWorld? It was Apple's attempt to gain some of the profits from the internet craze. I told them it would fail. It ended up being a year and half late, and was still just a rebranded version of AOL online. It folded shortly after being released.

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  Kenny Burchard (@KennyBurchard) reported 20 minutes ago

  This is true. I have officially built a bulk mail server for just me that functions 100% like constant contact or mail chimp in every possible way that I have been able to detect, using AI. It cost me less than $100 to build it. It costs only 10 cents for every 1000 emails I send. Every email service (aol, hotmail, yahoo, Microsoft, gmail) recognizes it as a legit service. It’s called KennyBMail I log in to my dashboard which I can design however I want. It has one user and one account. Me and mine. I can do drip campaigns, single emails, weekly newsletters and whatever else you can think of. It uses all the structure blocks, tests, formats, resends, click and open trackers, reports. Everything. You name it this service does it. My gated content has put over 650 new emails into it in 3 weeks while I sleep. For a small YouTube channel that has given me an entirely new way to reach people in my audience. AI knows every language. Every human language and every coding language in every human language. It knows how everything in the domain of coding and programming works. Everything. It’s not perfect but it works. It would have cost me tens of thousands of dollars to have a company build this. I built it with AI in 9 days during down time. If you know how to tell it what to do (not everyone does) - then if you can think it, you can build it. I know nothing about building this kind of stuff and still did it because I know how to articulate what I want it to do and how to tell it when something isn’t right.

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  Dan Olson (@olson_dan) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Terry_Hendrix I am too young for BBS (seriously). I tried it once when I was 12 and on an AOL trial but never got anywhere.

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  Levity (@LevityODonnell) reported 29 minutes ago

  @ThreeUK Sort your **** mobile broadband network out in South Manchester. I had better service with my AOL rom disc and dial up in Y2K.

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  c000game (@c000game) reported 31 minutes ago

  @neogeo8man Honestly a fascinating bit of internet history fluff to me that my generation HATED "lol" and saw it as a sign of endless inept low-IQ ****-humor AOL/CompuServ migrants. Then we gradually started using it ironically, like "lol" for "how stupid". Then we just started meaning "heh"