AOL outages and service status in Purcellville, Virginia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Purcellville, Virginia

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Purcellville, 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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  Richard Rusk, Engineer (@RichardRusk007) reported 5 minutes ago

  @clawrence I think I pay less than $100 per year for a domain name, hosting service at Bluehost, and an account with Proton that includes email. It might add up to less than $50; it is a small expense. Having said that, though, you can still set up a free aol account and I have done so a couple of times when I ask publicly for responses by email. Using aol gets attention. Today’s aol email is a good free email service.

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  Xavier Damman 🌍🔅 (@xdamman) reported 5 minutes ago

  Wow surprisingly tone deaf post from an @openai top executive. Feels like AOL or Compuserve arguing about how dangerous and bad for innovation an open internet would be. Permissionless innovation. That’s what open weight models offer.

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  StuyBoy From NYC (@StuyBoyNY) reported 7 minutes ago

  @visegrad24 Probably comes with AOL dialup service, and no toilet, only a bucket.

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  Sunny Ray (@sunnyray) reported 8 minutes ago

  Scott Hardy was on the internet before the web existed. He joined AOL in 1995 in tech support and rode it from 100,000 subscribers to over 30 million, working his way up to IT Operations Manager running networks for Arizona. Then the dot-com bubble burst and he was loading cargo at Delta for fifteen dollars an hour. He rebuilt through Sprint Nextel, eTelecare, and Limelight Networks, and in 2008, in the middle of a financial crisis, he founded Top Class Actions on one brutal statistic: roughly 95 percent of consumer class action settlements go unclaimed. TCA became the world's most popular site for class action website. Then he went full stack. When Arizona became the first state to allow non-lawyer ownership of law firms, Scott, a non-lawyer, co-founded LegaFi Law in 2022 to represent the plaintiffs his site was already finding. In 2024 he launched Trimaxian, a litigation funding syndicate that lets accredited investors and family offices back class actions.

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  Milo (@MstrMilo) reported 9 minutes ago

  Been going down a Luca Ferrari rabbit hole and honestly the guy might be running one of the smartest plays in tech right now. while everyone's out here trying to build the next big thing, he's just buying the old ones. Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Meetup, AOL. products people still love but that got bloated and neglected. bending spoons scoops them up cheap because everyone assumes they're dead. they're not, they're just badly run. and then the fun part. they move everything to italy, strip the company way down, hand the code to a bunch of young engineers who ship like crazy, and reprice the product to what it's actually worth. evernote got 75 updates in a year after basically going quiet. nobody's on call, everyone's just a "software engineer," salaries are flat. someone described it as private equity having a baby with google which is perfect. the numbers are kind of insane too. revenue per employee went from about $1.1m to $2.6m in two years, and they just IPO'd north of $18b and popped 40% on the first day. the takeaway that stuck with me: you don't have to invent the thing. you can just take something great that someone else fumbled and actually run it well. everyone's obsessed with zero to one and he's quietly getting rich on one to n.

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  Del Leonard Jones (@jonesdel) reported 10 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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  Andrew DeBiasio (@AndrewDebiasio) reported 11 minutes ago

  @CherieCurrie3 Idiots. When I was on aol crackhead homeless people took mine out twice. Second time att took way to long to fix so I changed to the fiber and they installed in a day

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  Misty Burrell (@EmBeance) reported 13 minutes ago

  @oelma__ Don't forget AOL. I had an AOL and a yahoo. A Hotmail I never used too.

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  Heath Weaver (@heathweaver) reported 20 minutes ago

  @qlypai For @twigl_it I don't think of it as a wrapper around a frontier model, but I guess you could say that. In my view, all frontier models will follow the path of AOL. It's moving rapidly along the same trajectory. AOL mail, chat were all massively popular; AOL's valuation went to the moon, etc. But then dedicated tools came in, and against the single focus, AOL couldn't compete. Once SpaceX launches space-based datacenters along with Starlink, the game will be up. My bet is that the harness is where the value is at. I have really zero loyalty to a particular model; I just want the highest raw intelligence with the ability to throttle down for work that doesn't need it. It's not even clear to me what Anthropic or OpenAI think is actually going to happen. I am sure they can see from their own metrics that like 95% of users are just using it as a glorified search engine. The mass does not care at all about the companies and will use whatever is best and free (i.e., ad-supported). In the long run, Google will likely win. So a true wrapper, like simply putting the API with a bit of context, will become irrelevant to higher levels of intelligence, but I don't think the frontier models can ever win against a superior harness on a really specific proprietary data pool. I am betting that people would rather have more control over their own data, be able to better direct context, and be able to use the best-performing self-healing skills with tools with the most intelligent model that is out there.

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  Abby_NormaL (@AbbyNormaL131) reported 24 minutes ago

  @BuzzPatterson Don't ever try and cancel it! It's worse than trying to cancel your AOL account!! We had to lock the card we used because even tho we cancelled it, and they confirmed it... They still kept trying to charge us