AOL outages and service status in Vienna, Virginia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Vienna, Virginia

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

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

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  Christina Haftman (@Cr8DigitalAsset) reported 2 minutes ago from Fair Oaks, Virginia

  @robertoblake I went to college pre internet. We had large computers with floppy disks, DOS command prompt, loud, vibrating dot matrix printers and slow screechy modems. This was before Windows and IE. Before email. Before AOL. Before NETZERO. Before Yahoo Messenger.

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  Richard Hanson ✡ (@RichardH1818) reported 36 minutes ago from Merrifield, Virginia

  Email server Recommendations anyone? AOL has been the host for mine--but now they've made it hard to use. They now put different, and very distracting, balloons at the beginning for each message. I don't want a message service that makes it harder.

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  Lauren Kahn #BringOnVaccineMandates! 😷 (@laurenskahn) reported 58 minutes ago from McLean Hamlet, Virginia

  banned. It happened to me over 10 years ago on the old #AOL travel message bds. I simply set up my own website & never involved myself with travel bds again. Some of the bullies became monitors on travel advisor's bds. W/o proper monitoring, sites become the domains of bullies.

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  Glenda Flores (@GlendaF77551891) reported 59 minutes ago from Falls Hill, Virginia

  Jocelyne if you slept with Jason it’s cool…😒 You think I’m dumb right? I seen your porn collections and all you AOL chats 😒 The original convo was you slept with Meylene 😒 You think I’m stupid.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jenna (@JennaMeshelle) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PCSoonersFan Those damn AOL chat rooms lmaooooo 😭

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  VoodooX-Rocket (@VoodooXRocket) reported 6 minutes ago

  @boostmobile Boost Mobile reminds me so much of the 1990's AOL. Their customer service makes it one of the worst MVNO carriers today! Their creative accounting is so hard for their reps to understand, so how is a customer going to?

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  Heartlivehealer7777 (@SpGhVa7777) reported 6 minutes ago

  @LikeUrDiane If we stick to AOL being only for emergency use or our own military use only, that would be fine. I miss landline phones.

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  Mike Keys (@MikeKeys12119) reported 6 minutes ago

  @TexasRepublic71 I can’t find their website bc my dial up signal quit working after AOL died off. Lol

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  Dark Skies (@DarkSkiesNE) reported 9 minutes ago

  Data Centers have been around for a long time... The commercial internet & World Wide Web created demand for always-on servers & interconnection. Early internet exchange points such as MAE-East in Northern Virginia (Metropolitan Area Exchange–East), established in 1992, was the first non-governmental Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in the United States. It served as a physical meeting point where early commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) could interconnect & exchange traffic directly rather than routing everything through distant or government-controlled networks. This peering model reduced costs & latency & became a foundational piece of the commercial Internet. America Online’s presence in the region, plus cheap land near Dulles Airport, available fiber & proximity to Washington, D.C. & DARPA (which had funded ARPANET), made Loudoun County/Ashburn attractive. Equinix, founded in 1998, built one of the region’s first dedicated commercial data centers to serve AOL & others, pioneering the colocation model. Companies rented space, power, cooling & connectivity instead of building their own facilities. Similar “carrier hotels” & interconnection hubs emerged in cities such as New York & Los Angeles. The late-1990s dot-com boom accelerated construction of larger purpose-built facilities. The subsequent bust left unused space that later operators filled.

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  Gary Eppenbaugh (@garyeppenbaugh) reported 10 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Holy hell, we thought you went to go hang out with Ask Jeeves for the weekend at his mountain cabin with Napster, Netscape, and AOL Instant Messenger

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  Minnow (@Phila_Mino) reported 13 minutes ago

  No Nick, I'm done talking about dad. I'm exhausted, let him cancel his own AOL subscription and change the TV input by himself, I'm out.

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  Augusto's Air-Taxi Service (@Manservant_H) reported 17 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Holy crap, I need to see if my AOL address still works

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  Victor (@gvictor808) reported 17 minutes ago

  @brockpierson Yes. Prodigy (Prodigy Interactive Personal Service) was a commercial online service that people accessed with a dial-up modem over regular phone lines. It launched publicly in 1988 as a joint venture of IBM and Sears (originally developed as Trintex with CBS). You installed their client software on a PC or Mac, the program dialed a local access number, and you connected at typical early speeds of 1200 or 2400 bps. Later they added faster modem support and, in 1994, web access. It was one of the “big three” consumer online services of that era, alongside CompuServe and AOL. Users got news, weather, email, bulletin boards, shopping, stocks, games, and similar features through a graphical interface—not the open internet at first. Startup kits sometimes even bundled a modem. The classic Prodigy service ran until the late 1990s; after that it shifted toward being an ISP before fading out.

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  𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 (@manipulate) reported 21 minutes ago

  a lot of you have never been punted off of aol at 3am and it shows.