AOL outages and service status in Abilene, Texas

Problems in the last 24 hours in Abilene, Texas

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Abilene, Texas 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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  CyberTLDR (@CyberTLDR) reported 6 minutes ago

  2/3 PortSwigger's Gareth Heyes showed it at Black Hat. One Outlook chain spoofs a Microsoft sign in and grabs the typed password. A Yahoo/AOL paste race leaks a login token. A Gmail chain exfiltrates a Slack token after prompt injection. #InfoSec #Privacy #CyberAttack

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  matt stevens (@mattst73) reported 14 minutes ago

  @distributedkv Once compute is available we will leave this current token war setup. This is much like the AOL charge by the minute internet back in the 90's. Then some brave souls that where smaller just said unlimited internet for 20 bucks a month. Then the communication companies offered DSL and access to the service for $50 a month. More than likely we will have some small data centers maybe 10 racks serving a neighborhood. Do you really need 2 trillion perimeters to write posts, summarize emails?

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  DrewBone (@therealDrewBone) reported 15 minutes ago

  @vxylily Yes, I was PM'ing with a friend who was an employee of AOL, when she told me that a jumbo jet had just flown into one of the World Trade Towers. I ran to the tv just in time to see the second aircraft fly into the second tower, live. I will never forget it.

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  John Curran (@jac2623) reported 17 minutes ago

  19. Never used AOL.

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  Convertible Bert (@AbstractLife) reported 23 minutes ago

  @blackhawkpryd 19 for me. Never had AOL

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  neuroplasticity (@macewan) reported 23 minutes ago

  @WTForeRight @Matt_Pinner 19 - never had aol but I was here during their disk moment.

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  Millie Marconi (@MillieMarconnni) reported 23 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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  Brian (@Limerick_Brian) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19 never had aol address but had the equivalent

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  Robbie Wade (@WadeRobbie1969) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19. Never had a AOL address

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  Hon. Ian Obala 🇰🇪 (@Ianobala_2027) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Dennis_Itumbi02 Abductions, goonism everywhere, he is gambling with the education sector, no blood bags in our hospitals, sha is not working in some hospitals like Ndhiwa sub county Hospital in Homabay County. AOL pare