AOL outages and service status in Ocean View, New Jersey

Problems in the last 24 hours in Ocean View, New Jersey

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Ocean View, New Jersey and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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  JollyJoebean_VT (@joebeanclown) reported 8 minutes ago

  19 Never had an AOL.

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  Andreux👨🏿‍💻 (@and_reux) reported 8 minutes ago

  a researcher just showed CSS alone can escape the boundaries of an email and mess with the webmail interface itself across Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton, Yahoo, AOL: fake login screens, stolen tokens, hijacked UI actions, even manipulated AI assistants that read your inbox. no JS required

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  Gretchen (@mkeGingerGal) reported 10 minutes ago

  @AshleyInMKE 19. Never had an aol account.

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  Rhiyddun (@rhiyddun) reported 12 minutes ago

  @qaggnews @ColonelTowner @MarkEDeschaine True, back then the community was a lot smaller and better connected in a way, it was just us computer geeks, after all, just getting connected to the internet was difficult until Aol and Bix. I helped bring cable modems and digital set top boxes to the public but that wasn't until mid 90s. Before then, a fast connection was a 44.1Mb T3 at work, or a blazing 128kb from home, you could with some trouble get a T1... A fast CPU ran faster than 2MHz... (not GHz) The fastest link, mid 80s the Boston globe could get going from one side of town to the other was a T2 microwave link, 6Mb, so until Bill Gates started selling pc's to anyone, it was a close and honest community, not without the odd ones, but anti social was the 'uunet' red line I guess. How long did the gets() vulnerability remain unexploited? Years. People didn't break into other systems as a usual thing. That was 40 years ago though and things just aren't the same. The Arduino crowd strikes me as having some of the hobbyist sort of enthusiasm you'd see back then.

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  Ken Nelson (@atKenNelson) reported 14 minutes ago

  @disagreebutter 19. I’ve never used AOL.

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  Shane 💬 (@Technimentals) reported 16 minutes ago

  @HayleyWazEre Long story short, AOL and the largest business-to-business Internet Service Provider at the time (UUNET), were both headquartered here. Companies started laying a lot of fiber. This has been going on for 25 years here. They take a lot of water and power.

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  Kaki🇳🇿 🇬🇧 (@kakiOwakagirl) reported 17 minutes ago

  @made_63 @Matt_Pinner I never had an aol address. We had 3 water beds, in 3 different countries. Loved them

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  Aremu Azeez (@aremz04) reported 17 minutes ago

  There's a line in The Lean Startup that stung when I read it last week: "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution. Eric Ries tells the story of IMVU's first product. His team spent six months building an instant-messaging add-on, based on a genuinely smart-sounding strategy: piggyback on existing IM networks (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN), ride their network effects, spread virally through people's existing friend lists. Whiteboard-brilliant. They launched. Nobody used it. When they finally sat real customers down in front of the product, every assumption fell apart. Customers weren't scared of learning new software - the average teenager ran eight IM clients at once. They didn't want to chat with existing friends through avatars - they wanted to meet strangers. The "obvious" barrier the whole strategy was built around wasn't a barrier at all. Ries's point isn't "test more." It's sharper than that: in a startup, any effort that doesn't produce evidence about what customers actually want is waste - no matter how well it's executed. He calls the real version of this validated learning, to separate it from the after-the-fact story you tell yourself when something doesn't work. I'm sitting in a smaller version of that exact test right now with Owoye. One of the assumptions baked into the product is that WhatsApp and IG sellers want their invoices auto-matched to incoming payments. It sounds obviously useful from where I sit. But that's precisely the position IMVU's team was in - certain, and wrong, about what would remove friction for their customer. So this week will not be spent refining the feature. It will be spent in conversations with actual sellers, watching how they track who's paid right now - screenshots, memory, WhatsApp scrollback - before deciding whether "auto-match" solves their problem or just mine. The uncomfortable question worth asking about your own product this week: is the thing you're building solving a problem your customer has, or a problem you have with how your customer works?

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  star anise (@anisenot) reported 19 minutes ago

  I once was shopping a manuscript to agents and I got such positive response to it & this one agent had asked for the exclusive manuscript. I agreed not knowing any better & turned down other requests for the full (stupid me), but it was actually autobiography presented as fiction, about my real life AOL catfish and I used his (alleged) real name because main plot points were directly related to the name & its meaning (& also f him he was a catfish). So her response in the end was that while she was very into my story she couldn't get past the terrible contrived name I had chosen for the character & ultimately had to pass I let myself feel quite embarrassed for ever writing such garbage & I shelved the whole thing, but then later that same name was used in so many popular TV shows, it's like a real name lots of people have

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  Doug Forcett (@BrentWe14327724) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I got 19 – never had AOL