AOL outages and service status in West Columbia, South Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in West Columbia, South Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in West Columbia, 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 Near West Columbia, South Carolina

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in West Columbia and nearby locations:

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  Nick 🐓🤙🏻 (@SpeakThenThink) reported 11 minutes ago from Forest Acres, South Carolina

  @lyndzanity Definitely AOL IM for me. And some random chat room I can’t remember the name of. But I used to play pool on yahoo games all the damn time

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Alex Prompter (@alex_prompter) reported 4 minutes ago

  You're prompting frontier AI through the same keyboard layout you used for AOL Instant Messenger. The models got 1000x smarter. The interface didn't move an inch. $5.5M says Aina's building the fix. This is the hardware gap I've been watching for someone to close.

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  True life hustling (@tonlineretail) reported 6 minutes ago

  @soapweb3 AI AOL dial up service. Yahoo was king and My Space was getting replaced by Facebook. I joined in 2010. This IBM PC Jr. Was around when I was in college learning to code In 88, 89. And you could choose the contrast yoouuu wanted and green was a less desirable choice.

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  Greg Manuel (He/Him: GIFT SHOP IN BIO!) (@WriterComicNYer) reported 6 minutes ago

  @HappyNaClO1 "Guaranteed money" didn't almost ruin wrestling. Lack of variety almost did when AOL/Time Warner decided they were disinterested in pro wrestling. Brooks either doesn't know what he's talking about or he's being wilfully full of ****.

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  Poopeye™ (@ThePoopeye) reported 9 minutes ago

  How do all these people have 10s of thousands of "followers"? People that don't necessarily post anything new or just re-posts of other peoples' thoughts & work. I don't get it. I've been a member for a while now (w/ THIS acct - my orig was cancelled by Twitter during COVID for telling the factual scientific truth about masks based on my years in Bio-Nanotechnology). Is it strictly from those "Follow" train lists? I learned early on to stay away from those - I check out EVERYBODY I ever follow first & personally (not necessarily relying upon Grok's "Profile Summary", although those may get me interested to take a gander). I try to engage those who engage with me and avoid silly flame-wars. I don't post to GET followers, I generally post current stream-of-consciousness thoughts, what's on my mind at that moment & not really organizing them into proper English "articles". Plus I'm not really good at pithy comments - I speak from my heart & soul and EXPLAIN myself & my reasoning for coming to different conclusions. And I typically don't engage in irrational, emotional hyperbole & name-calling. I truly want to know what others think and LEARN (you're never too old to learn!). For DECADES on BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems - pre-graphical internet days, modem-connected social systems for discussion, research & debates), the Usenets (newsgroups, pre-graphical/HTTP/HTML internet days when time on the internet was purchased through 3rd party vendors like CompuServe by the hour - 70s & 80s, pre-AOL (which is slightly pre-HTTP/HTML/Mozilla-Netscape graphical internet revolution) - where everything was command-line driven in ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO set or ATASCII or the like). Am I just too old, boring, long-winded, obnoxious, opinionated or what? I know its annoying with me posting about my health, but I've gotta vent SOMEWHERE and NO ONE on X knows me personally. Not that it matters so much now, I'm heading down the stretch-run to Home plate, but even paying for Elon's blue-checkmark, I don't get many hits/views or responses/engagement, it is pretty comparable to my "free" account that I use solely for NFL stuff where I have 1 whole "follower", which is probably one of those online ho-bags. It's not that I'm looking to "earn" from X and I'll NEVER post things just for click-bait value. I'm just really curious how these other accounts accrue so many followers for literally not doing much,

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  Ben Monroe 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 (@BenMonroe1) reported 9 minutes ago

  @SarahSevans2000 Hit 19, I never had an AOL address, I could have but I didn't. A lot of those are the result of working in a law office though.

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  Qrazy (@QuantumQlink) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AwakenedOutlaw Most in Northern Virginia didn't even know these Data Centers are here. There are over 300 for Amazon Web services alone and many more new ones being built. They are huge, about 800k sf, all due to high demand. I know as I started working in one of the first, AOL, in the late 90's, all the way up to AWS recently for the past 22 years. There has never been any real issue with water or electric use. The real problems arising look to be Zoning and location issues that have real impact on residences and that is what really needs addressed. WE NEED DATA CENTERS! How do people think the Internet and this platform itself exists? 😎

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  Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach) reported 14 minutes ago

  @WilliamTaborDDS Say what? I've NEVER had an AOL email account. You sure you're posting in the right thread? w.

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  Abby_NormaL (@AbbyNormaL131) reported 14 minutes ago

  @BuzzPatterson Don't ever try and cancel it! It's worse than trying to cancel your AOL account!! We had to lock the card we used because even tho we cancelled it, and they confirmed it... They still kept trying to charge us

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  Heath Weaver (@heathweaver) reported 14 minutes ago

  @qlypai For @twigl_it I don't think of it as a wrapper around a frontier model, but I guess you could say that. In my view, all frontier models will follow the path of AOL. It's moving rapidly along the same trajectory. AOL mail, chat were all massively popular; AOL's valuation went to the moon, etc. But then dedicated tools came in, and against the single focus, AOL couldn't compete. Once SpaceX launches space-based datacenters along with Starlink, the game will be up. My bet is that the harness is where the value is at. I have really zero loyalty to a particular model; I just want the highest raw intelligence with the ability to throttle down for work that doesn't need it. It's not even clear to me what Anthropic or OpenAI think is actually going to happen. I am sure they can see from their own metrics that like 95% of users are just using it as a glorified search engine. The mass does not care at all about the companies and will use whatever is best and free (i.e., ad-supported). In the long run, Google will likely win. So a true wrapper, like simply putting the API with a bit of context, will become irrelevant to higher levels of intelligence, but I don't think the frontier models can ever win against a superior harness on a really specific proprietary data pool. I am betting that people would rather have more control over their own data, be able to better direct context, and be able to use the best-performing self-healing skills with tools with the most intelligent model that is out there.

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  Jim60 (@jimnva60) reported 15 minutes ago

  @SarahSevans2000 19 , never used AOL