AOL outages and service status in Pinehurst, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Pinehurst, North Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Pinehurst, 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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  Chris Farrell (@chrispfarrell) reported 2 minutes ago

  I think OpenAI and Anthropic might be the CompuServe and AOL of the AI era. Does anyone actually think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, X/Twitter, and all of the other big tech companies will just allow these 2 badly run startups to capture the AI market? OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat or sustainable competitive advantage. To win they have to not only develop a moat but penetrate some of the most fortified moats. Model quality isn't a moat. Kimi, Grok, Deepseek proved that. Inference will become a commodity utility that requires massive CapEx that neither can finance. Interface is where the moat is the weakest. OpenAI and Anthropic do not own the apps or the OS. The OS and apps are owned by parties who view OpenAI or Anthropic as threats, and they can complicate things very easily. As if that is not grim enough, AI sovereignty will become an issue. Consumers will want their iCloud data to stay in iCloud, their OneDrive data to stay in OneDrive, etc. Enterprise customers will want AI from their cloud providers to reduce egress and for performance + IP reasons. It is honestly hard to imagine a world where OpenAI and Anthropic survive as they are. They will either morph into companies with entirely different value offerings or die like Compuserve and AOL.

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 3 minutes ago

  Researchers tracked 344,753 websites over 18 months to map where American attention actually goes online. The answer is email. Gmail alone is 16% of all desktop time. Add Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL, and inboxes eat nearly a quarter of every hour Americans spend at a computer. That's double the combined total of Facebook, X, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and WhatsApp. The legacy numbers are the wild part. Yahoo Mail, at 3.71%, gets more attention than ChatGPT, Reddit, and Netflix combined. AOL Mail, a service most people assume died with dial-up, beats Instagram and Discord combined. Yahoo still has roughly 225 million active mail users, skewing Gen X and Boomer: people who opened an account in 1999 and never saw a reason to leave. Google Search sits at just 2.33%. The front door of the entire internet gets less time than Yahoo's inbox, because search is engineered to end fast. Every second you spend on a results page is a second Google failed. The chart measures desktop, which explains the shape. Your phone is where you play. Your computer is where you work. And the work of being an American in 2026, the bills, the receipts, the school notices, the job applications, still runs through a protocol invented in 1971. Strip away 30 years of apps and the desktop internet is a post office with better graphics.

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  Global Utopia Sports (@GL8BAL_SPORTS) reported 6 minutes ago

  Likes have been limited + erased for days I can't catch up & of course help service is down. The worst ran social media i ever seen. Ive used every one since MySpace. I'm 1 of the 1st ever to merge sports & internet in the world going back to AOL never seen anything like this bs

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  Black Boomer (@MilennialBoom) reported 16 minutes ago

  @MFruitninja @Motheo37001950 I’ve been on the internet since I was 12/13. AOL Teen Chat, etc being an only child I wanted connect with my peers at home. It was very wholesome for me. Never engaged with anyone other than my age mates.

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  bennrudd (@bennrudd) reported 21 minutes ago

  US is fighting 2 war. Ammunition depleted. Ukraine swallowed all weapons n US army never thought they taking Iran. That's y EM said AOL is an idiot. She shld capitalised on this issue. Y expect Mamdani

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  GL | kRaZeYdRe (@kRaZeYdReMoBiLe) reported 22 minutes ago

  @brockpierson No never heard of it. I used yahoo, sbcyahoo , aol, and I think that's all they had back in my days lol

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  NOT FOR SALE (@lexanfs) reported 24 minutes ago

  Earlier, AOL tried to give me a fake message, i.e., "this email has been deactivated due to inactivity." It wasn't deactivated after multiple attempts. AOL, every email service, & every business humans use to communicate with one another, has a responsibility not to participate.

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  Bill Bishop (@niubi) reported 26 minutes ago

  This pro-PRC model industry group from Silicon Valley is interesting but I think not thinking long-term. Why can’t the frontier labs do something like AOL did with its Greenhouse project and say OK, I will let you distill but we want equity in your company and/or a fee. AOL got equity for promotion/placement on the screen. (we committed 30+ million at MarketWatch, helped traffic and the ipo a lot, but worst company I have ever negotiated with). Anyway, apologies for the digression, but why couldn’t this be similar but for distillation access, and the labs like Anthropic and OpenAI could end up with a really interesting portfolio of companies, some of which might become quite valuable, and those smaller firms’ VCs could also benefit? Otherwise, does it really make sense for a huge swathe of the American technology industry to end up dependent on PRC models? Haven’t we learned any lessons from other industries where PRC firms have been able to come in at a very low cost with good products and effectively create dependencies that crowd at all other competitors? And now we are talking about the most transformative industry in many years, and it could be even worse if it’s built in part through some problematic practices in terms of distillation attacks and export control violations, if some of US government’s and frontier labs’ claims are true?

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  StructuralPITA (@StructuralPITA) reported 26 minutes ago

  @syruproxy We met on an AOL aviation message board. 🤭 We crossed paths many times as kids but never met. We met in person a few weeks after nonstop phone calls and we've never been apart. I was on furlough from the airline I flew with, and I said no when they called me back. 📟 didn't work in the countries I flew to and we were inseparable by then. 30 years ago. 🩶

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  Spaulding T. Bear (@spauldingtbear) reported 29 minutes ago

  @oelma__ Nope. Not really. I remember when yahoo and msn came along. I had AOL at 2.0. (Can't remember the name of the service before them, but it only lasted 2 hours and cost too much to keep going.)