AOL outages and service status in Pasadena, Texas

Problems in the last 24 hours in Pasadena, Texas

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Paul Walsh (@Paul__Walsh) reported 5 minutes ago

  The answer is, no. The advice is to build a sandbox properly. An AI that can steal credentials is the worst example of a sandbox I’ve seen since 1996 when I was head of testing for the launch of all new technology for AOL in the UK, and AIM globally. This is all 100% PR. Is AI a danger to society? Yes. But that’s because the humans at the wheel don’t care.

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  Tim Froehlig (@TFroehlig) reported 7 minutes ago

  AOL, sit your sorry behinds down. OG, baby.

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  string (@doctorcalf) reported 11 minutes ago

  What was that free dial up service that came on a CD, around the time of AOL

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  Ya Filthy Animal (@PatSoxCeltBruin) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TrollFootball While this is true, I can’t really talk ****, when I was 19 I was stocking can’s on a shelf and spent my nights on AOL messenger.

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  Cookie Roof 🍪 (@10MinDQ) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CoachRobynRab @txsinatrafan When my email at work goes crazy I love telling the IT guy....you know I do not have issues with my home AOL.

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  John Roberson (@jroberson151) reported 18 minutes ago

  Gather round children, let me tell you of the Netscape Navigator In the Year of our Lord Early-1990s, one could access Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) -- essentially, a highly-selective Reddit -- BY PHONE, not the internet. You also played your friends in Warcraft 2 by phone. If you had email it likely came through a university "Walled Gardens" were built out at AOL and Prodigy to facilitate user-friendly graphical interactions over the most of the 'net you were gonna get your hands on. But then... Netscape. FREE YOUR MIND was stamped all over the thing. You could do what you wanted, when you wanted it. You could guess the full URL for the admin login portal for major companies, then go to the human-legible cookie file on your machine and change the access granted value to true! When you opened someone's computer and they didn't have Netscape, your Promethean introduction of technological fire established your reputation as a true wizard and hacker We exchanged the latest search engines: WebCrawler, AltaVista, Dogpile. Jerry's Guide, even. Real wizard-tier esoterica. College students had access to unlimited bandwidth. A normal chump at home was sitting on 1-3% of 1 Mbps, or maybe 1/8 of 1 Mbps if he was a high roller with an ISDN line. But college students had T1s (1.5 Mbps) or even T3s (45 Mbps for a whole school, maybe even just a dorm). With all those sweet sweet kbps, you hit up mIRC and your beautifully personal Geocities page. You used Winamp and Winzip. You had ASCII text art in your sig. Later in the 90s, you burned mix CDs for friends with Nero's Burning ROM and downloaded wallpapers from Digital Blasphemy. You had Juno mail, then Hotmail and Yahoo, to FREE YOUR MIND and take your email with you wherever you wanted to go. And at the heart of all this: Netscape Navigator, a.k.a Excalibur, a.k.a. Eternally-On-Evaluation, a.k.a. the 3rd-best piece of freedom I experienced after exploring our drainage ditches and getting my own bike It was truly special. Thank you @pmarca This site best viewed with Netscape Navigator v1.22N

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  StructuralPITA (@StructuralPITA) reported 22 minutes ago

  @syruproxy We met on an AOL aviation message board. 🤭 We crossed paths many times as kids but never met. We met in person a few weeks after nonstop phone calls and we've never been apart. I was on furlough from the airline I flew with, and I said no when they called me back. 📟 didn't work in the countries I flew to and we were inseparable by then. 30 years ago. 🩶

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  Arlo Gilbert (@arlogilbert) reported 23 minutes ago

  History tells us that the companies that are early leaders in a software category rarely remain so. Altavista? Excite? InfoSeek? You're old if you remember those, but at the time they were dominant. Then came Yahoo, then Google... Years later. AOL? EarthLink? Compuserve? They were the Internet for most users. Now? Telcos & Cable cos reinvented themselves as consumer ISPs and dial up mostly died. The historical examples go way beyond software. The point is that although OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok/X, Google are dominating AI right now, things change in ways we can't forecast. The next better faster cheaper different AI solution that erases some current leaders probably hasn't been created yet. I do wonder though, who dies first? I'm talking 5-10 year window.

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  ⚡imp0stor⚡₿ (@x_imp0stor) reported 23 minutes ago

  @FullMetalTrav I was the architect of the AOL help page deployment on the vendor side for 10 or so years. I optimized and redeployed the entire stack more than one time. It took around 52 servers to handle the traffic spikes and was split between 2 data centers w/ failover.

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  JJ Faulk (@JohnWilliamFau2) reported 23 minutes ago

  @mezmerelda007 @502KYGal @GretchenVoss64 Aussie I need your help , I think I know how to prove that Jen did the 2:27am Safari / Google search , ok so you have to understand how Safari works , its not a search engine so it sends your request to other search engines like Google , AOL or Bing , OK so wouldn't those search engines have a timestamp , for their own records of what was requested on what date , and the exact time requested ? But how do we get this info ? From Google history ? Or can Karen subpeona those search engines that Safari asked ?