AOL outages and service status in Forest, Virginia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Forest, Virginia

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Frogo (@Dubflip) reported 8 minutes ago

  @shakoistsLog At 11 I was phishing for passwords with an AOL login clone I made from a screenshot. Obscenities came well before that

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  Mortifer Vates (@Breck0882) reported 9 minutes ago

  @SmugAlana YouTube’s day is coming, much like AOL, Netscape, yahoo, MySpace, ect. The days as king are limited. To much customer dis-satisfaction, something will come along and dethrone them. And it’s not going to be kick or rumble. It will be something new.

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  Blink (@HRTLegal) reported 12 minutes ago

  Remembering the time in the early 2000's when I called AOL to cancel my account and the Indian kept trying to upsell me on ****. Even back then the signs were there

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  jojimbo (@jojimbo_) reported 17 minutes ago

  @dakroot I started...1994? Intro to computer science I was sold & never looked back. ICQ (messenger) predated aol msgr, it was pretty cool, & i did like chatrooms. I worked nights & usually stayed up all night doing homework, so they were good ways to "socialize" around my crazy hours.

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  Doug Forcett (@BrentWe14327724) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I got 19 – never had AOL

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  Brett Caughran (@FundamentEdge) reported 21 minutes ago

  My playful analogy is we are in the AOL era of AI. Early stage of a revolutionary technology, but the delivery mechanism is still clunky, requiring really dumb concepts like prompt engineering. In 1996, you couldn't even imagine business models like Uber, Netflix, the iPhone, YouTube or Tesla FSD, because the technology wasn't even close to capable or cost effective enough. From 1996-2006 global data volume grew by a factor of 10,000,000x (per Gemini), but that growth was hugely deflationary (wholesale IP transit cost down 99%), i.e. good for the application layer and selectively bad for the pipe owners (telecom). Overall, the mix of massive volume growth offset against gnarly price deflation has been a, net/net, positive thing for telecom investing. Does that hold for the frontier labs? "Intelligence pipe" feels like it can be a pretty damn awesome business, but, like telecoms, the evolution of "intelligence pipe as a business" will be extremely path dependent and will require real business models with attractive unit economics to fund. Obviously most of the 90's era telecoms went bust and the assets were only financially productive for the 2nd or 3rd owners, mostly due to balance sheet issues & the subsequent closing of the capital markets window. Though capital markets have evolved materially since the early 2000's telecom bust with a regulatory environment more supportive of monopolies/oligopolies and private capital markets more supportive of funding massive cash burn (to wit, I think it's a really bad idea for Anthropic to IPO in '26, but what do I know?). So imagine that prior but like 10-100x the size of the internet. Maybe more? As in 1996 when you couldn't even envision Netflix/Uber, the iPhone or Tesla FSD, we have zero idea what 2056 looks like, but the exponential will certainly drive even more upside uncertainty in technology. idk, hard to be structurally bearish on the "intelligence pipe" and subsequently, infrastructure that feeds the pipe (though it feels certain there will be super gnarly potholes, messy shakeouts, and bankruptcies along the way, as we saw in telecom evolution), and ultimately what matters is free cash flow production, which feeds from the intersection of exponential volumes against unit level deflation. What's exciting to me with the improvement in the models, both frontier like Fable/Sol and open source like Kimi/GLM/Deep-Seek, is you are getting *closer* so seeing a real application layer possible in a very intellectually difficult sandbox like public market investing. Nearly four years from GPT 3.5 demo, we still aren't there. We are still in the "AOL era" - too slow, not competent enough, too expensive. But are we exiting that era? It feels to me like we might be. If I had to guess, my guess is the frontier labs continue to be good businesses (and extremely volatile public stocks), mostly due to the reflexive nature of capital markets & talent acquisition. But what seems really obvious, to me, is that 2026-2036 is going to be the era of the application layer, where the Travis Kalanick-style entrepreneur takes this "intelligence pipe" and envisions new & groundbreaking businesses that change the world. That entrepreneurial accelerate will drive durable and accelerating demand for the intelligence pipe, it seems. It's a really exciting time to be alive.

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  FootLuv3r (@FLuv3r) reported 22 minutes ago

  been doing this since before AOL dial up I just like a having a cheerleader shut ******** up *****

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  بو صالح (@kalddan) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Brian27843245 @luireigns AOL & Time Warner killed it since one of the suits after the merger was official decided that the network didn’t need wrestling and pull the plug on WCW

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  FreedoMan (@advisors_abcz) reported 26 minutes ago

  Never bet against Elon. If OpenAI doesn't pay attention, it will be the next AOL.

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  Beth Fogle (@fogle003) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I never had an AOL address 🤪