AOL outages and service status in Mechanicsville, Virginia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Mechanicsville, Virginia

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AOL Issues Reports Near Mechanicsville, Virginia

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

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  Natural_Cakes (@ashley_nashell) reported 2 minutes ago from Richmond, Virginia

  My AOL instant messenger screen name was Rocagyrl919. SMH, damn I’m old.

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Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Lobster Thermidor (@scenicresorts) reported 1 minute ago

  There was an Internet before the internet. My parents bought an IBM PS1 from sears as our first modern computer when I was in elementary school. It came with Prodigy which was like a big BBS and a free trial of Compuserve, which I think was the predecessor to AOL, both ran on dial up. I liked compuserve better because it had chat rooms but it had some heinous bill by the minute rate once you exhausted the free trial. At 8 years old the only thing that occurred to me to do with this technology was to relentlessly and nonsensically troll the chat rooms until I ultimately got banned from the entire platform. Well, a month later my mom gets a $200 bill from compuserve (I blew well past the free trial) and she calls them irate. Apparently in this call she was told I ran up the charges and btw I was also banned. She couldn’t believe this so I guess she asked why I was banned and the rep told her I was spamming their chat rooms saying “I like big breasted women” which was apparently against their terms of service and they would not be refunding anything given my behaviour. Got home from 3rd grade that day to get quite an ear full about this. But I guess I get bonus points for being banned from the internet before there even was an internet. I still like big breasted women tho you can’t hold me down.

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  Daniil (@DaniilBuilds) reported 1 minute ago

  AOL and Time Warner didn’t just pay for what the two companies were worth in January 2000. They paid for what they believed the two companies could become together. The announced merger was valued at roughly $350B, with AOL shareholders expected to own about 55% of the combined company. The logic was easy to understand: combine AOL’s internet business with Time Warner’s media assets and create value neither could generate alone. But there was a financial problem hiding inside that logic. Future synergies are uncertain. The merger closed in January 2001. SEC disclosures later put the acquisition cost at approximately $147B. Then came the accounting reckoning. In 2002, the combined company reported a $98.7B net loss, including a $54.2B goodwill impairment. That $54.2B was non-cash. It did not mean the company suddenly paid out $54.2B in cash. It meant the value previously assigned to acquired goodwill could no longer be supported at the same level. That distinction matters. When you pay upfront for future synergies, you are effectively putting a price on value that still depends on execution. If the synergies arrive, the premium can make sense. If they don’t, shareholders can end up carrying the cost. The most expensive synergy is the one you pay for before you prove it exists.

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  KingStudebaker (@KingStudebaker) reported 2 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Lol. People use this ap??? Let me get my old AOL account and login

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  🤙Noc2urnal (@noc2urnal06) reported 2 minutes ago

  @samlowen5105 @todayyearsold Sam. I had to Google that post. And I'll be dammed Aol launched in 83 and 91 is when it became computing service for apple and the likes. Crazy.

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  mr mula (@mrmula973) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Carpetpatch1 @OrevaZSN you act like AOL went extinct when 2000 came around. And honestly don’t give a **** about what it looked like back then. Everything yall had, we have now x10 and some more. Tf are you saying?

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  Louis, Tencent Fan (@LouisaCommie) reported 6 minutes ago

  @IANdrewDiceClay I feel like the more interesting hypothetical would be if aol timer warner just never happened and wcw just went further into the 2000s same status quo, qoukd they eventually get a booker better then Eric and russo? I assume ny the time turner retires streaming era has started

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  Steve Harvey 🇬🇧🇨🇦 (@steveharvey2001) reported 8 minutes ago

  @AntiEVidiots When EVs were niche, driving one was like being part of a community with a shared secret. Similar to being on the internet in the early 1990s, before the AOL hordes turned up with their poor netiquette.

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  Jeremy Cherry (@CHERRY2TIMES) reported 9 minutes ago

  @latimes Yep the failed Mapquest MapQuest was the original online mapping site, launched in nineteen ninety-six by a spin-off from a printing company’s cartography division. It went public, then AOL bought it in two thousand, for about one point one billion dollars. That was the peak. Google Maps launched in two thousand five and ate its lunch — free, faster, better satellite imagery. AOL sold MapQuest to AOL’s own parent in two thousand ten for about one hundred seventy million, a fraction of what they’d paid. It still exists as a stripped-down site, but it’s a ghost of what it was.

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  The Lock (@The_Warlock_86) reported 10 minutes ago

  News flash, they never did. Even at the height of the Attitude Era wrestling was still looked down upon even with star athletes Kevin Greene, Dennis Rodman & Karl Malone headlining ppvs. Hardcore wrestling fans used to ***** in AOL chatrooms and Delphi Forums about celeb involvement. If you want further proof, no one outside of hardcore nerds watches AEW

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  Davidvinc (@TheDavidVinc) reported 11 minutes ago

  I remember when I was young and my mother would take me to the mall. I would bring a small notepad and pencil, then sit in Walden Books and write down things I had to do where I was stuck when I couldn't afford the guide. And as far as Gamefaqs is concerned, I don't think I knew that existed till like 1998 or 1999. It's not like we had social media to talk about different websites, I had to search using AOL keywords.