AOL outages and service status in Sanford, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Sanford, North Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Sanford, 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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  AOL Screen Name 📬 (@holleratbrian) reported 4 minutes ago

  @JosephD Were you ever apart of any of the infamous AOL private chat rooms? Some really wild stuff went down in there in the early Internet 😳

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  John DeMetropolis (@jdemet) reported 5 minutes ago

  @AOL What's wrong with your service right now? I cannot be "redirected" on sign in.

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  Brad 🛹 (@BradleySmith93) reported 7 minutes ago

  @RetroTechDreams Would play the **** out turret defense custom games in this with AOL dial up internet. Then I'd end up disconnecting from games due to my sisters unplugging the internet to use the phoneline to call up boys. Good times.

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  Adam Livingston (@AdamBLiv) reported 7 minutes ago

  Imagine you're in 1995 and someone shows you the internet. Early websites, dial-up, the whole nine yards. You wait four minutes for a JPEG to load. Halfway through loading, it disconnects. You think "this is stupid, this will never work, I'm going back to the Yellow Pages." That person lost the century. Bitcoin's short-term price is set by the most emotional participants in the most leveraged 24/7 market in human history. Futures traders, retail tourists, ETF arbitrageurs, guys who got tipped off on Reddit... these are the people setting the price on any given Tuesday. They are not the story. The story is that banks are building custody infrastructure. Governments are discussing strategic reserves in official policy documents. Accounting standards got reformed. Advisors can now put Bitcoin in client portfolios through their existing platforms without calling their compliance department and causing a medical event. The people who called the internet dead in 1996 were technically correct about AOL's stock price and completely wrong about everything that mattered. The marginal seller is loud and the structural integrators are quiet. History belongs to the quiet ones.

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  JoknobWoozy (@JoknobWoozy) reported 9 minutes ago

  @hthieblot Napster, AOL, limewire, **** I remember being in and yelling at my siblings because you couldn’t be on the phone and internet at the same time.

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  N.I.Veteran (@GanglSepp) reported 10 minutes ago

  Kids today will never know true frustration, like we had back in the day, waiting ( whilst listening to it scream ) for AOL to connect to the internet on a dial-up modem... only for someone in the house to pick up the phone! 📞💻😩📶

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  Dead Inside (@ScrapIronLiver) reported 11 minutes ago

  @thecowlitzkid I saw a lady on the nextdoor app yesterday ask if anyone else AOL was down, if that helps

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  ginger spice (@legallyging) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Boblhead truly!! was at a restaurant today and someone's ringtone was the AOL dial-up tone. ended up going down a rabbithole bc of that

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  pratik (@guru30989) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Gurudev @ArtofLiving @SPIEF Why harassing people to join paid sessions? Let people join by choice and not by force....trust your product boss... Cawards.... I will file police complaint against AOL

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  🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 (@agtprpnabsrdty) reported 22 minutes ago

  Different decade, same math: half the S&P 500 is priced at levels that a dot-com CEO called proof of investor insanity while watching his company crater 90%. The rotation at the top: In early 2000, the ten most valuable S&P 500 companies read like a monument to permanent dominance: Microsoft, General Electric, Cisco, Walmart, ExxonMobil, Intel, Lucent, IBM, Citigroup, AOL. A generation later, only Microsoft remains. GE was carved into three separate companies. Lucent was absorbed by Nokia. AOL became the cautionary tale attached to the worst merger in corporate history. Cisco and Intel spent 25 years climbing back to their dot-com peaks. Citigroup, IBM, Walmart, and ExxonMobil still exist, but none crack the top ten. The new top ten is Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and the AI infrastructure complex. Investors in 2000 were also certain they were buying the future's permanent giants. The data says most of today's winners won't be in the top ten a generation from now either, and there is no mechanism by which you find out which ones survive in advance. The valuation problem: In 2002, after Sun Microsystems collapsed 90%, CEO Scott McNealy explained to investors exactly what a 10x sales multiple actually demands: 100% of revenues paid as dividends for ten consecutive years, with zero costs, zero R&D, zero taxes, and zero employees. He was describing the math of the price investors had paid for his stock as a form of collective psychosis. Today, 51% of the S&P 500 by market cap trades above 10x sales. Half the index. The AI narrative is functioning as the dot-com narrative functioned: a story compelling enough to make the math feel optional. The math has never been optional.