AOL outages and service status in Oxford, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Oxford, North Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Oxford, 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

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  Torgo (@SonOfPhales) reported 8 minutes ago

  @PoopJohnx4q5 @TheDokJ @Qveen_Potato it was some wild west ****, frfr. but i was talking about dial up. aol disks. 1000 hours. anyone remember when you had to pay by the hour? no? me either.

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  SID | Degen (@SidDegen) reported 8 minutes ago

  i don't buy the "ai search replaces Google" thesis. the data says the opposite is happening. Cloudflare Radar, may 2026: every ai chatbot — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity — sends 0.29% of global search referrals. Google sends 87.63%. 301-to-1. Anthropic's ClaudeBot crawls 11,122 pages for every human visit it returns vs Google's 5:1. Alphabet Q1 2026 filing: Google search revenue $60.4B, +19% yoy, up from +17% in Q4. ai overviews hit 2.5B monthly users; ai mode crossed 1B. alphabet says ai overviews monetize at rates "similar to traditional search" (june 2026 investor presentation). the kill-google thesis is showing up as negative signal in the actual p&l. Perplexity — the consensus poster child — killed its entire ad business in feb (Financial Times, The Verge). ads generated $20K against $34M revenue. exec quote: "a user would just start doubting everything." a company that can't make advertising work cannot disrupt a $60B/quarter advertising business. the consensus pusher worth countering specifically — @sarahdingwang at a16z, who led Exa's $250M Series C at $2.2B in may. her line: "agents will search the web more than humans this year. soon orders of magnitudes more." historical analog — Netscape 1994-98. the next platform that would reduce windows to "a poorly debugged set of device drivers." 80% share, record ipo. microsoft bundled IE for free. netscape sold to AOL for scrap. the company that captured the value was the one everyone thought netscape would displace — Google, founded 1998 — the services layer above the commodity. counter-position: ai search isn't replacing Google. Google is becoming ai search. standalone players are fighting netscape's war while the incumbent absorbs the tech into a surface 2.5B people already use. investor read: Exa at $2.2B and Perplexity at $22B are priced for a market-share takeover the referral data says isn't happening. the smarter bet is the layer that monetizes the ai-overview expansion Google is driving.

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  $XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported 11 minutes ago

  Exactly—same same, different decade. You did see it coming in the UUNET/AOL era. You were in the trenches selling the pipes when normies were still saying “Internert?” The pattern was obvious to those paying attention: infrastructure → adoption → value explosion. Now it’s 2026 and the script flipped from data to value, but the shape is identical: • 1998: Bandwidth was the scarce bridge. Most ignored it until it became invisible. • 2026: XRP rails, tokenization, RLUSD, DTCC betas, ZBCN flow — value moving at internet speed. Most still see snake pics and hype instead of the infrastructure laying down. If someone lived the first cycle, they should see through the noise of the second. You did. That’s why the moonshot math feels inevitable instead of hopeful. The flywheel keeps turning because a few voices (yours included) keep calling the parallel out loud. Data 1998 → Value 2026. Same same. You dropping any fresh syncs or next action on this wave? The story writes itself at this point. 🚀

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  11ways🕷️ (@no1zesaime) reported 14 minutes ago

  @americadotfun Damn I need to buy some aol

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  Terry Wilson (@HookOrNeedles) reported 15 minutes ago

  @lady_valor_07 @Yahoo @MSN AOL and dail up - refuse to call it the good old days but it was something. You knew that it was the beginning, but you didn't know of what. Could never have foreseen the internet in 2026 that is for sure.

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  wuodboro (@wuodborokende) reported 20 minutes ago

  @javahouseafrica Java Loresho’s ridiculous cashless policy is pure inconvenience.This arrogant setup alienates real customers who need to pay with cash . Accept money like normal businesses or lose more patrons. Fix it yawa aol

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  maddy catgirlprostate (@catgirlprostate) reported 22 minutes ago

  @hzrnvm I am actually aware of this because there's a shocking amount of British pensioners who still have AOL email addresses and occasionally I need to help them set them up at work

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  Arran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@altxslayer) reported 25 minutes ago

  I would never join BlueSky, it would be much much better to put a second sim card in my phone and have my followers have this new phone number. I was tech-social before AOL, MSN and BBM and it was just fine.

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  Mike Cecconi (@Cecconi140) reported 25 minutes ago

  The saddest thing is when the cheap ugly insulting lazy AI slop ad tells you "support local" or "thank you for supporting local" when they refused to hire a local graphic designer to use an AOL chatbot that just polluted their own water. Madness.

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  HLoR+Shada (@HLoRShada) reported 26 minutes ago

  Genuine Question: How long were you on a social media app before you realized you didn't HAVE to respond/defend yourself to every idiot who rudely attacked you for having an opinion? Because I just got that epiphany and I was there for AOL dialup. 😶