AOL outages and service status in Middleburg, Virginia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Middleburg, Virginia

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

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  Business Nerd (@Business_Nerd_) reported 2 minutes ago

  Marc Andreessen on the exact moment the Internet changed forever: "There are two Internets," Marc explains. "There's the Internet that existed before 1993 and the Internet that existed after 1993." Before 1993, the Internet was funded by the National Science Foundation as an academic and research network. Commercial activity was strictly prohibited under what was called the acceptable use policy. The result was something the people who lived through it still describe in utopian terms. @pmarca describes it like this: "People who were on the Internet before 1993 often describe it in utopian terms because it literally was like you take the whatever million smartest people in the world and you put them on a network together with like no commercial activity, no advertising, no nothing, just the million smartest people in the world. And you just like let them talk to each other. And it's just like amazing." He singles out Usenet, the old messaging system, as the centerpiece of that world: "The discussions on Usenet were just like absolutely spectacular… It was like the most pure, clean intellectual, like vibrant space sense, like, I don't know, Athens in 500 BC. It was just like this amazing phenomenon." Then AOL connected. In September 1993, AOL plugged its million or two million subscribers. Normal people into the Internet for the first time. That moment got a name: eternal September. It was the day the Internet stopped being an ivory tower and became a mainstream consumer thing. The "eternal" part is its own joke. Marc explains: "Concept of eternal September literally was, it was like when every new wave of college graduates graduated and got their first job and then went online. So September is when the new crop of Internet users showed up… So the September effect didn't just happen once. It like happened over and over and over and over and over again. And every cycle of Internet user would basically be like, oh my God, this is great. But like, it's all going to get ruined in September." The Internet we live in today is the result of roughly 30 of those Septembers stacked on top of each other. Marc is careful to say he's pro that shift. He was on the side of opening it up, allowing commerce, allowing advertising, connecting everyone. But he doesn't pretend the trade-off wasn't real. You can't take a network of the smartest million people on earth, connect it to everyone, and expect the texture of the conversation to survive. The lesson sits underneath the story. Every great network has a pre-commercial phase that the early users remember as paradise, and a post-commercial phase that actually changes the world. Both are real. You don't get the second without giving up the first.

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  Atlas3D (@Orwelian84) reported 3 minutes ago

  @MRatable lol yes -- AOL keywords omg stupid AOL keywords -- and everyone and their mother from the laundry mat to the gas station getting a website -- there was SOOO much performative internet use in 95-99

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  smartcent (@ashtakkashte) reported 5 minutes ago

  @hthieblot There was a website or a service that had a unified login for all your messenger apps like yahoo, msn, aol etc and you could chat with one interface

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  TANK 🥫 (@Anon_Whale_) reported 6 minutes ago

  @ehtreasurer You will click on a drainer link cause you’re a scammer and for all your lies and trying to cheat people , karma is coming for you. You think you can lie and push people to this garbage AOL , based on all your lies and karma isn’t gonna come and get you ? Tik tok cheater

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  ajokeronjack0007 (@ajokeronjack007) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Walmart is the walmart moto "we can screw up a wetdream? "As usual I ordered from you snd items were missing . U promised me a promo.code that never showed up in my aol. Com account. I have wasted 3 days jacking with your foriegn customer service still no code.

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  Zachary Sheldon (@zdsheldon) reported 11 minutes ago

  @sfmcguire79 Saying that a Claude subscription can teach you how to think with AI is like saying that using AOL instant Messenger teaches you to be a network engineer. Elite schools should teach the tech that makes the product work, not lock kids into a subscription platform for life.

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  Jacques Souvenier (@treemantwig) reported 12 minutes ago

  @hthieblot Also AOL and WOW for when dial up had just dropped. Damn I’m old

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  bunnyb0y (@bunnyb0y_Live) reported 16 minutes ago

  @jrade762 @exQUIZitely The customer (you) paid for your phone line + either the hourly/monthly rate to AOL. Since connecting meant you couldn't use your phone for calls many people ended up getting a 2nd phone line (more $ to Ma Bell) until DSL lines came into play.

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  Kryptowe (@Kryptowe_) reported 18 minutes ago

  @itsme_urstruly I'd gladly take the days of dial up and that aol instant messenger door slam any day over the garbage we have now.

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  tech3000.algo (@tech3000algo) reported 19 minutes ago

  @CipherMind__ @SwayMoney9 Companies that were "never" going to be stopped or knocked off the top spot- General Electric Pan Am IBM General Motors Sears JCPenny Kmart Radio Shack Kodak Lehman Brothers AOL Yahoo Blockbuster Every single one is gone or hollowed out. Four were taken out by Amazon.