AOL outages and service status in Arlington, Virginia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Arlington, Virginia

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Arlington and nearby locations:

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  Jayde Willow Coler🏳️‍⚧️ (@JaydeColer) reported 7 minutes ago from Arlington, Virginia

  He IS a security risk but I’d say he’s more like Netscape (old as shit and useless) or the old AOL software (kept around far longer than should have been because people liked the one catchphrase it had)

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  G. Double D. (@ShirleyImMilk) reported 27 minutes ago from Arlington, Virginia

  Were talking about “What cultural item are you older than” at work. We’re slow. So far, I’m older than MTv, AOL and VHS cassettes. This is a fun game to make me feel like I AM ACTUALLY THE OLDEST IN THE STORE. I don’t like this game... I’m taking my slap wraps and going home.

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  Connor McGowan (@bucketOfBuckets) reported 44 minutes ago from Arlington, Virginia

  @aklingus There was like a 6 month period in the mid 90s where AOL chat rooms were a fun place to hang out… and when you started a convo with someone you’d have to rapid fire emails back and forth because there was no private chat or instant message system

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  Dr. Tracey Perez Koehlmoos (@DrTraceyK) reported 55 minutes ago from Arlington, Virginia

  @cclareMDMPH Two. I never had an AOL address.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Aremu Azeez (@aremz04) reported 6 minutes ago

  There's a line in The Lean Startup that stung when I read it last week: "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution. Eric Ries tells the story of IMVU's first product. His team spent six months building an instant-messaging add-on, based on a genuinely smart-sounding strategy: piggyback on existing IM networks (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN), ride their network effects, spread virally through people's existing friend lists. Whiteboard-brilliant. They launched. Nobody used it. When they finally sat real customers down in front of the product, every assumption fell apart. Customers weren't scared of learning new software - the average teenager ran eight IM clients at once. They didn't want to chat with existing friends through avatars - they wanted to meet strangers. The "obvious" barrier the whole strategy was built around wasn't a barrier at all. Ries's point isn't "test more." It's sharper than that: in a startup, any effort that doesn't produce evidence about what customers actually want is waste - no matter how well it's executed. He calls the real version of this validated learning, to separate it from the after-the-fact story you tell yourself when something doesn't work. I'm sitting in a smaller version of that exact test right now with Owoye. One of the assumptions baked into the product is that WhatsApp and IG sellers want their invoices auto-matched to incoming payments. It sounds obviously useful from where I sit. But that's precisely the position IMVU's team was in - certain, and wrong, about what would remove friction for their customer. So this week will not be spent refining the feature. It will be spent in conversations with actual sellers, watching how they track who's paid right now - screenshots, memory, WhatsApp scrollback - before deciding whether "auto-match" solves their problem or just mine. The uncomfortable question worth asking about your own product this week: is the thing you're building solving a problem your customer has, or a problem you have with how your customer works?

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  TheWizard (@TheRealWizar) reported 9 minutes ago

  AOL was the first time most people used the internet back in the 90s. Using a phone line and dialing up the service meant you were connecting to the world, it felt like a magical experience. Hearing 'You got mail' and your AIM notifications going off was the first dopamine hit for people being addicted to social platforms - but it was different. You were not online for long durations - usually, just to login for 5 - 15 minutes to check your messages, read some quick news, and log off. Mom had to use the phone after all and you couldn't stay on all day. Today's internet is an always on experience, making it hard for people to disconnect and touch grass / hang out with family and friends.

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  6thGenFlCracker (@KevBro239) reported 10 minutes ago

  @sceptic100 Holy crap! Y’all are in congress? I gotta stop getting my news from my aol dial-up.

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  WiscoSteve (@Wisco_Steve) reported 11 minutes ago

  @gbean2288 @RyanShead Clam down boomer, disconnect from AOL and touch grass. Moran is actually the correct spelling, unless you are new to AOL.

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  Anthony Wireman (@awireman) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner Is it weird to use a check book? 19 for me though (never had an AOL address)

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  Dr. Ernie Taylor (@Taylor1Dr) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I never had AOL but the rest of them I knew and used them all the time so 19 out of 20 ain’t bad

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  MJ (@_MaryJaneGreen) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19. Never had an AOL address!!

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  GH HILL (@GHHILL1911) reported 25 minutes ago

  Any 2010 Tech Nostalgia? Working on Privateer. I started this one - at least put it into Google Docs... In 2010. MUCH has changed since this, technology-wise. I mentioned certain Tech Things by name that described those tech things in some detail. The problem is all of that stuff - ALL OF IT - is painfully outdated. AOL. Skype. Blackberry. Hotel Phone Calls. Adobe Flash. Now, I COULD keep all this stuff and keep Privateer a period piece, but I don't think anyone is waxing nostalgic about 2010 Tech Trends.

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  Ken Nelson (@atKenNelson) reported 25 minutes ago

  @disagreebutter 19. I’ve never used AOL.

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  Trevor Long (@TrevorL415) reported 28 minutes ago

  @MeikaRei @KPHagain Lol. We didn't have squat like that during old school AOL & all my old content and chats way back when. We all know you never know Jack Squat or the reality of anything.