AOL outages and service status in Bluffton, South Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Bluffton, South Carolina

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

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  Olivier Groot (@OlivierGroot) reported 5 minutes ago

  @theamelia___ 18 but only as there was no AOL in NL and a waterbed is something I never understood

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  Daniil (@DaniilBuilds) reported 9 minutes ago

  AOL and Time Warner didn’t just pay for what the two companies were worth in January 2000. They paid for what they believed the two companies could become together. The announced merger was valued at roughly $350B, with AOL shareholders expected to own about 55% of the combined company. The logic was easy to understand: combine AOL’s internet business with Time Warner’s media assets and create value neither could generate alone. But there was a financial problem hiding inside that logic. Future synergies are uncertain. The merger closed in January 2001. SEC disclosures later put the acquisition cost at approximately $147B. Then came the accounting reckoning. In 2002, the combined company reported a $98.7B net loss, including a $54.2B goodwill impairment. That $54.2B was non-cash. It did not mean the company suddenly paid out $54.2B in cash. It meant the value previously assigned to acquired goodwill could no longer be supported at the same level. That distinction matters. When you pay upfront for future synergies, you are effectively putting a price on value that still depends on execution. If the synergies arrive, the premium can make sense. If they don’t, shareholders can end up carrying the cost. The most expensive synergy is the one you pay for before you prove it exists.

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  steve brei (@stevebrei) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Salvo8284 @AYTOarchive Same here AOL just never could figure out how to adjust with the market and rebrand away from being viewed as an internet access company once local broadband started being rolled out nationwide by other companies and municipalities.

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  Aüd! 🎡 #SWAG (@lyfeisgood111) reported 13 minutes ago

  I guess I’m just some guy that poke around because I don’t know Yeahhhh ion know **** but I knew exactly who to ask for and look for… Just like Ben laden How ah ***** knowing but he didn’t know nun… CIA thankfully I gee up on AOL ppl duck and hide and still get found!

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  Dylan (@eatyellowsno) reported 14 minutes ago

  @captive_dreamer who ******** reads AOL

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  Ben Tyson (@HexitBen) reported 15 minutes ago

  @theswansjr AOL was the first app on the internet Ethereum is the internet of money Bitcoin is a broken meme that burns $15 billion investor dollars a year defending unaudited, spaghetti code consensus

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  Dark Skies (@DarkSkiesNE) reported 15 minutes ago

  @LibertyPDX1 Data Centers have been around for a long time... The commercial internet & World Wide Web created demand for always-on servers & interconnection. Early internet exchange points such as MAE-East in Northern Virginia (Metropolitan Area Exchange–East), established in 1992, was the first non-governmental Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in the United States. It served as a physical meeting point where early commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) could interconnect & exchange traffic directly rather than routing everything through distant or government-controlled networks. This peering model reduced costs & latency & became a foundational piece of the commercial Internet. America Online’s presence in the region, plus cheap land near Dulles Airport, available fiber & proximity to Washington, D.C. & DARPA (which had funded ARPANET), made Loudoun County/Ashburn attractive. Equinix, founded in 1998, built one of the region’s first dedicated commercial data centers to serve AOL & others, pioneering the colocation model. Companies rented space, power, cooling & connectivity instead of building their own facilities. Similar “carrier hotels” & interconnection hubs emerged in cities such as New York & Los Angeles. The late-1990s dot-com boom accelerated construction of larger purpose-built facilities. The subsequent bust left unused space that later operators filled.

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  Rakesh Agrawal (@RakeshSFNYC) reported 15 minutes ago

  Mapquest holding line on Lake Ontario. I agree, but no doubt it is just a marketing stunt to remind us they exist. I was at AOL when Google Maps launched. The head of Mapquest would send out emails every time they launched a feature saying people would never use Google.

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  Miss EsqHire (@MissEsqHire) reported 16 minutes ago

  My candidate at a small, no-name firm is about to turn down an offer from an international law firm because they use Harvey and his current firm uses Claude. Apparently he cannot live without Claude. Can someone explain the difference to me like I’m my mom in the ’90s discovering AOL? Any arguments for Harvey that I can retort with?

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  Billszmafia (@Babobooey) reported 16 minutes ago

  @fekdaoui @bot mine barely made it past set up before shutting me down for 7 days. "Bot credits" according to Grok. Grok Bot is is still in AOL dialup stage. Needs work and some tweaks badly. Save you money