AOL outages and service status in Fairfax, Virginia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Fairfax, Virginia

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

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

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  Richard Hanson ✡ (@RichardH1818) reported 24 minutes ago from Merrifield, Virginia

  Email server Recommendations anyone? AOL has been the host for mine--but now they've made it hard to use. They now put different, and very distracting, balloons at the beginning for each message. I don't want a message service that makes it harder.

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  Christina Haftman (@Cr8DigitalAsset) reported 27 minutes ago from Fair Oaks, Virginia

  @robertoblake I went to college pre internet. We had large computers with floppy disks, DOS command prompt, loud, vibrating dot matrix printers and slow screechy modems. This was before Windows and IE. Before email. Before AOL. Before NETZERO. Before Yahoo Messenger.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Karen (@Waywoman) reported 6 minutes ago

  @NotTodayEric I had a 22 year old ask me what "aol" was the other day. She looked at me like I was crazy when I described the discs that came in the mail and played her the sound it made when it connected to the internet. Damn kids have no idea what we went through.

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  Unacceptable Nuck (@UnacceptableN) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Martyupnorth We paid for AOL for 3 months and ended up getting 18 months free. If you paid even once and then called to cancel so you could use a free trial, they just gave you another month free. Those free trials kept coming. How did they make money?

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  Phil McCoxwell (@PhilMccoxwell) reported 8 minutes ago

  @ConceptualJames I refer to her as AOL. Slow. Not enough bandwidth, and every time she opens her mouth it’s sounds like a screeching modem.

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  Dan דן (@dan_araz) reported 9 minutes ago

  @claudeai Think of your poor clients too. You're forcing us into an AOL equivalent when parents were shocked when the bill arrived. Or, we can't use the better product. :(

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  Bill Greenwood (@Lousanabill) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Martyupnorth Nope. never did have AOL. :)

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  I come to X and your mom's house for Booms (@KentuckyRoots) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TreadOnThis_ @BillWiIdin @DiinamicMAGA Boomers absolutely had the technological equivalents. New cars every 2 years. AOL. A new gateway or Compaq Presario every time new RAM dropped. Big screens. DVDs. Home stereo. Waterbeds. Arguing otherwise is the most ridiculously stupid thing I've heard in my entire life

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  Del Leonard Jones (@jonesdel) reported 15 minutes ago

  @MilkRoadAI Frontier models appear headed down the AOL road. If Anthropic and OpenAI fail, I wonder who gets dragged down with them.

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  Shoestring Lab (@Shoestring_Lab) reported 18 minutes ago

  For those of you who don't know the history, MSN was originally a walled-garden dial-up online service like AOL. A couple of Microsoft engineers convinced Bill Gates to turn the entire company around and focus on the public Internet instead of the walled garden approach.

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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 (or, in time, your ISP) "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. Just a whiff of the icon could turn that frown upside down. 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 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 IRC and your beautifully personal Geocities page. You used Winzip and Winamp (llama hater!). 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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  Eva (@TXlakegirl2021) reported 19 minutes ago

  @LoewyLawFirm Wasn’t that AOL? I still have my @ me - I’ll never get rid of it. For those that don’t know it was a paid for service to sync all your devices before that was normal and free.