AOL outages and service status in Beaufort, South Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Beaufort, South Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Beaufort, South 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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  Van Garnett (@IllustratorVG) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I only missed "aol email". I never had AOL.

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  Millie Marconi (@MillieMarconnni) reported 4 minutes ago

  A programmer built a database because software on a US Navy destroyer could not afford to lose its connection. Today that tiny database sits inside every iPhone, Android phone, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, and most people have never heard his name. His name is D. Richard Hipp. The database is SQLite. In 2000, Hipp was helping build software for the USS Oscar Austin, a guided-missile destroyer. The program helped sailors respond when the ship was damaged. If a pipe burst, it could find the valves sailors needed to close, the other valves they needed to open, and exactly where each one was located. During a real attack, this could mean smoke, flooding, broken pipes, and people trying to keep the ship alive. All that information was stored inside an Informix database. When the database server worked, everything was fine. But sometimes the server went down. Sailors would open the damage-control program and get a message saying it could not connect to the database. Hipp’s team did not control the server. They still got blamed because their software showed the error. Hipp started asking a simple question: Why did the program need a database server at all? It only needed to read information from the ship’s computer. Why could it not pull that data directly from the disk? Then government funding paused, leaving Hipp without contract work for a few months. So he built the database himself. SQLite had no separate server to connect to. No administrator had to keep it running. The entire database could live inside one file, and the application could read that file directly. If the computer was working, the database was working. The Navy kept Informix as its official system, but Hipp’s team began using SQLite for development and testing. Then Hipp released it on the internet. Someone managed to run a full SQL database on a Palm Pilot. Motorola called and paid him to improve it for a new phone operating system. AOL wanted it because it needed a database small enough to fit on its installation CDs. Then Mozilla, Symbian, Adobe, Google, and countless other companies followed. When Android began shipping SQLite on millions of phones, users found bugs Hipp had never seen before. So he spent about a year working 60-hour weeks to bring it up to aviation-style testing standards. Today SQLite estimates that more than one trillion active databases may exist across the world. They store browser history, messages, settings, contacts, app data, and countless other pieces of our digital lives. The database created because a warship could not trust a server became the database billions of devices trust when no server exists.

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  Voxxx (@13vRJ) reported 7 minutes ago

  @mrcauliman Despite all the noise in our little "sphere", we're still very early. Compared to the speed of internet adoption, I'd say we're still not even to that point where you had 50 CD's falling out of your mailbox from AOL and other ISP's every day. The regulations are simply a floodgate to move things along faster. The real problem is still education. Nobody wanted to learn how packets move, they just wanted to see tits online. Nobody wanted to learn html until there was a UI and MySpace made it fun.

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  Dr_Sofaking (@Dr_sofaking) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner All, but never had an AOL address - my dad did, and I helped him with puter stuff.

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  Tommy Richards #OvertPsyops (ReMastered) (@tlthe5th) reported 9 minutes ago

  Lisa sent me the AOL email less than a month before she suddenly freaked out on me because I asked for divorce. And she's now lied to the judge AND police trying to get me in serious trouble and caused me an almost insurmountable amount of stress. I JUST wanted some SPACE.

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  Unfiltered (@quotesdaily100) reported 10 minutes ago

  WHY THESE COMPANIES LOST EVERYTHING 1. Nokia - Failure to adapt to touchscreen era & Weak software ecosystem 2. Blockbuster - Ignoring streaming shift & Late digital investment 3. Kodak - Resisting digital photography & Protecting film business 4. Yahoo - Missed acquisitions & Leadership instability 5. MySpace - Poor user experience & Facebook's faster innovation 6. BlackBerry - Ignoring touchscreen trend & Slow app ecosystem growth 7. Toys R Us - Heavy debt load & E-commerce disruption 8. Sears - Underinvestment in stores & Amazon competition 9. Compaq - Commoditized PC pricing & Acquired by HP after struggles 10. Palm - Fragmented product line & Late platform updates 11. AOL - Slow broadband transition & Failed Time Warner merger 12. Xerox - Missed PC opportunity & Weak commercialization of own innovations 13. Netscape - Lost browser war to Microsoft & Slow product innovation 14. Napster - Legal battles & No sustainable business model 15. Atari - Market flooding & 1983 video game crash 16. Motorola - Slow smartphone transition & Fragmented product strategy 17. Friendster - Technical performance issues & Facebook's rise 18. Digg - Poor site redesign & User exodus to Reddit 19. Vine - No monetization for creators & Instagram's rising competition

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  Asinus Asinum Fricat (@Fricat) reported 11 minutes ago

  19. Never got AOL

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  Soren Lindbo (@LyreLeads) reported 12 minutes ago

  MSP prospecting tip: look for businesses still on Yahoo/AOL email, no SSL on the site, hosting on SquareSpace or Wix. That combination means no in-house IT, no enterprise vendor, zero compliance posture. The cleanest signal you can find.

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  Sean 🇨🇦 (@CsbWorlds) reported 17 minutes ago

  @TimothyImholt The count for me is 19. Never had an AOL address, and yes, I am GenX.

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  supercooldude (@gingeraleteas39) reported 17 minutes ago

  omg can we stop making fun of the gerard throw up **** its like his business 😭 like the jokes are not hitting guys its just people reposting the aol ss and his old tweets like hello