AOL outages and service status in Angleton, Texas

Problems in the last 24 hours in Angleton, Texas

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Angleton, 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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  green p1 phosphor screen (@LazyPipe) reported 5 minutes ago

  @FellerYeller The last chatroom I joined was on AOL in like 1999. It's never been more over.

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  a mac (@amac46339485) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Swmngwshrks @q_slavic AOL dial up could fail.

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  Dewey Duck (@Swmngwshrks) reported 8 minutes ago

  @amac46339485 @q_slavic At least AOL kept their servers running for years after the company went defunct to service their customers.

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  🇨🇦🇺🇦I Chuck Brown 🇺🇦🇨🇦 (@Smee_57) reported 8 minutes ago

  @BellaBeautyVibe 18, never had an AOL account. Have yourself a great weekend

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  Evan Brown (@faulttolerant) reported 8 minutes ago

  Google's AI features got turned on by default for its 3+ billion users. It's a neat trick for naive investors. "Look at our explosive growth and engagement!" AOL did the same thing with its CDs. I went through six years of school without ever paying for internet. They'd mail out a CD for 45 free days, then all you had to do was threaten to cancel and they'd give you six months free. The difference is AOL's internet and email worked. Google is degrading its experience in both email and search, and throwing user content out the window.

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  Turkey T (@The_Turkey_T) reported 12 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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  Business Nerd (@Business_Nerd_) reported 13 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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  mike2025 (@mike3k25) reported 14 minutes ago

  @ForHumanityPod Not it wasn't. It was BBS systems, IRC, and online service providers like AOL who let us connect to the world and get information and software. You idiots probably don't even know what warez was. Look it up. I used to make a **** ton of money as a kid off of it.

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  Investor in chaos and shortages (@Toronto242M) reported 18 minutes ago

  You're judging AI the way people judged the internet during the dial-up era. AOL needed CDs to access the internet. It was noisy and slow. The Netscape browser was primitive. Broadband didn't exist. Yet nobody concluded the internet wasn't the future. If you weren't around in the early days of the internet, I suggest you research how it evolved. AI is in the same stage today. Capabilities will improve, costs will fall, and infrastructure will scale. Nobody quit the internet race because it was expensive. Nobody will quit the AI race either. In fact more particpants will enter. One day there will be an AI app that is a must have. Some kid is probably working on it his garage right now. @jeffbezos Look forward. $NVDA $MU $CRDO $MRVL

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  Karen Knudson (@KKnudsonHistDoc) reported 22 minutes ago

  @TexasShae2 @JonKatz79 I use my AOL email as a dumping ground when I do not wish to be nagged. I never look at it.