AOL outages and service status in Toano, Virginia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Toano, Virginia

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Toano, 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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  Pedro Henriques (@p3dromig) reported 5 minutes ago

  Everyone worries over EU startups flipping to the US. One Italian company is buying up American ones instead. You probably opened three of their apps this week. Bending Spoons is a Milan company most people outside Italy might never have heard of. Founded in 2013. Started as an app studio. Then it turned into an acquisition machine. The list is close to absurd now: AOL, Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, Eventbrite, Brightcove, Komoot, StreamYard. Recently they added Airtable. Over 50 deals in total. Most of the marquee names are American. All of it runs out of a single office in Milan. We all see European startups do the reverse Delaware flip. Move from the EU to incorporate in the US, chase US capital, hand control across the Atlantic. Bending Spoons runs it the other way. It buys American brands and moves ownership and control to Europe. You do not see that often. Bravi, @bendingspoons !! I run a European company, and we have a subsidiary in Milan. Nothing against US startups, but I want my kids to grow up in a Europe that buys, not only one that gets bought.

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  🔥 PALANTARD 🔥 (@cidman00) reported 6 minutes ago

  @thinkReal AOL was the **** back then

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  Robert George (@RHGSMALLSHARK) reported 6 minutes ago

  @AbGamble1 This is helpful but when Carney is AOL not going to help.

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  I am Stephen (@SteveR9155) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I never used AOL. everything else, yup.

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  Sarah '$EZ' Forde (@Kittyclysm87) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19, never had a AOL account.

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  Tnulb Sivart (@TravisBlunt) reported 14 minutes ago

  @ClayTravis Sports Illustrated is still a thing? Huh, have touched that garbage of a publication in probably a decade, just assumed it was the AOL of sports!

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  Aremu Azeez (@aremz04) reported 15 minutes ago

  There's a line in The Lean Startup that stung when I read it last week: "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution. Eric Ries tells the story of IMVU's first product. His team spent six months building an instant-messaging add-on, based on a genuinely smart-sounding strategy: piggyback on existing IM networks (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN), ride their network effects, spread virally through people's existing friend lists. Whiteboard-brilliant. They launched. Nobody used it. When they finally sat real customers down in front of the product, every assumption fell apart. Customers weren't scared of learning new software - the average teenager ran eight IM clients at once. They didn't want to chat with existing friends through avatars - they wanted to meet strangers. The "obvious" barrier the whole strategy was built around wasn't a barrier at all. Ries's point isn't "test more." It's sharper than that: in a startup, any effort that doesn't produce evidence about what customers actually want is waste - no matter how well it's executed. He calls the real version of this validated learning, to separate it from the after-the-fact story you tell yourself when something doesn't work. I'm sitting in a smaller version of that exact test right now with Owoye. One of the assumptions baked into the product is that WhatsApp and IG sellers want their invoices auto-matched to incoming payments. It sounds obviously useful from where I sit. But that's precisely the position IMVU's team was in - certain, and wrong, about what would remove friction for their customer. So this week will not be spent refining the feature. It will be spent in conversations with actual sellers, watching how they track who's paid right now - screenshots, memory, WhatsApp scrollback - before deciding whether "auto-match" solves their problem or just mine. The uncomfortable question worth asking about your own product this week: is the thing you're building solving a problem your customer has, or a problem you have with how your customer works?

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  Grandpa Joe (@GrandpaJoeSux) reported 17 minutes ago

  I'm |-----| this close to just throwing caution to the wind and going public, my name, face, everything. ... My Address, my phone number, my MySpace, my Claude Code login, my AOL Chat, my medical history, my social security number, my childhood lunch code, my ATM PIN, my favorite brand of peanut butter...

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  Rhiyddun (@rhiyddun) reported 17 minutes ago

  @qaggnews @ColonelTowner @MarkEDeschaine True, back then the community was a lot smaller and better connected in a way, it was just us computer geeks, after all, just getting connected to the internet was difficult until Aol and Bix. I helped bring cable modems and digital set top boxes to the public but that wasn't until mid 90s. Before then, a fast connection was a 44.1Mb T3 at work, or a blazing 128kb from home, you could with some trouble get a T1... A fast CPU ran faster than 2MHz... (not GHz) The fastest link, mid 80s the Boston globe could get going from one side of town to the other was a T2 microwave link, 6Mb, so until Bill Gates started selling pc's to anyone, it was a close and honest community, not without the odd ones, but anti social was the 'uunet' red line I guess. How long did the gets() vulnerability remain unexploited? Years. People didn't break into other systems as a usual thing. That was 40 years ago though and things just aren't the same. The Arduino crowd strikes me as having some of the hobbyist sort of enthusiasm you'd see back then.

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  Anthony Wireman (@awireman) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner Is it weird to use a check book? 19 for me though (never had an AOL address)