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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  Adam Livingston (@AdamBLiv) reported 2 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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  @ryskco (@ryskco) reported 4 minutes ago

  Please go tell 1999 me never to sign up for @Yahoo Mail. I give @AOL people **** when I see those but damn is yahoo a cluster.

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  Dan Shapiro (@DanTheFinanceMn) reported 5 minutes ago

  Bitcoin - it’s not a pretty picture right now. It’s been in a massive sell off since October of last year. It does have dynamic support at that red line, which is the 200 simple moving average. I would expect some sort of bounce there, but there is no “has to” in the markets and it can certainly go lower, even much lower.  My problem with bitcoin is its usability. I’ve never used bitcoin to buy anything and very few places accept bitcoin as payment. And when an asset class can move that quickly, it is certainly not a store of value, at least not yet. So when people say it’s digital Gold, I just don’t know, I don’t see it yet. Until I can actually use it, I can’t get excited about it. There is value to the technology I know that for sure but I’m not educated enough in crypto to know exactly what that is. The market will tell me when it’s time to buy crypto. Crypto reminds me of the .COM error of 2000, you could see the future, but you knew it was a while away from being practical. Most of the names that were all hyped up are no longer around like AOL or Infoseek or Netscape. With the .COM crash Amazon went to a dollar a share. OMG imagine where you would be right now if you bought Amazon at a dollar a share. We may be approaching a similar situation in bitcoin, I’m just not sure where this asset class bottoms. Don’t forget with the Internet, we were all hyped up about it in 1995 when it was just coming out, but it wasn’t until 2000 when all the mania started happening in the internet stocks which led to the eventual stock market crash of 2000.  Disclaimer: this is not professional, financial advice, it’s just my opinion.

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  james b (@longdongdaddy69) reported 6 minutes ago

  @hthieblot Dial up modems AOL CDs with free trials AOL chat Geocities webpages ICQ Winamp Using HTML Frames on webpages MIDIs on webpages Web counters Guestbooks Forums .wav files 3.5 floppies 100mb Zip disks (you'll never fill that!) CD-Rs! Newgrounds Homestar Runner BME Pain Olympics

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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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  Business Nerd (@Business_Nerd_) reported 11 minutes ago

  Marc Andreessen on the exact moment the Internet changed forever: "There are two Internets," Marc explains. "There's the Internet that existed before 1993 and the Internet that existed after 1993." Before 1993, the Internet was funded by the National Science Foundation as an academic and research network. Commercial activity was strictly prohibited under what was called the acceptable use policy. The result was something the people who lived through it still describe in utopian terms. @pmarca describes it like this: "People who were on the Internet before 1993 often describe it in utopian terms because it literally was like you take the whatever million smartest people in the world and you put them on a network together with like no commercial activity, no advertising, no nothing, just the million smartest people in the world. And you just like let them talk to each other. And it's just like amazing." He singles out Usenet, the old messaging system, as the centerpiece of that world: "The discussions on Usenet were just like absolutely spectacular… It was like the most pure, clean intellectual, like vibrant space sense, like, I don't know, Athens in 500 BC. It was just like this amazing phenomenon." Then AOL connected. In September 1993, AOL plugged its million or two million subscribers. Normal people into the Internet for the first time. That moment got a name: eternal September. It was the day the Internet stopped being an ivory tower and became a mainstream consumer thing. The "eternal" part is its own joke. Marc explains: "Concept of eternal September literally was, it was like when every new wave of college graduates graduated and got their first job and then went online. So September is when the new crop of Internet users showed up… So the September effect didn't just happen once. It like happened over and over and over and over and over again. And every cycle of Internet user would basically be like, oh my God, this is great. But like, it's all going to get ruined in September." The Internet we live in today is the result of roughly 30 of those Septembers stacked on top of each other. Marc is careful to say he's pro that shift. He was on the side of opening it up, allowing commerce, allowing advertising, connecting everyone. But he doesn't pretend the trade-off wasn't real. You can't take a network of the smartest million people on earth, connect it to everyone, and expect the texture of the conversation to survive. The lesson sits underneath the story. Every great network has a pre-commercial phase that the early users remember as paradise, and a post-commercial phase that actually changes the world. Both are real. You don't get the second without giving up the first.

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  Turkey T (@The_Turkey_T) reported 15 minutes ago

  To be clear, I would never, EVER, DM anyone. Not on Twitter/X, not on Discord, hell, not even on AOL Instant Messenger. Even replying to people if they message me ties my nerves into knots. But when they do, no matter what the reason or situation, I appreciate it. So thank you.

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  Zachary Sheldon (@zdsheldon) reported 17 minutes ago

  @sfmcguire79 Saying that a Claude subscription can teach you how to think with AI is like saying that using AOL instant Messenger teaches you to be a network engineer. Elite schools should teach the tech that makes the product work, not lock kids into a subscription platform for life.

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  Dave Austin (@EdmundAvalon) reported 21 minutes ago

  @SorchaEastwood Awww. @flyfour banned me because I showed his argument to be nonsense. Typical AOL user, frankly. Dumbing-down of the internet started with ********* like him.

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  a mac (@amac46339485) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Swmngwshrks @q_slavic AOL dial up could fail.