AOL outages and service status in Ankeny, Iowa

Problems in the last 24 hours in Ankeny, Iowa

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AOL Issues Reports Near Ankeny, Iowa

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

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  Chase Eslinger (@ChaseEslinger) reported 55 minutes ago from Des Moines, Iowa

  The dial-up internet sound followed by the AOL login and playing AOL kid games… the golden days of the interweb. Yeah, I’m old.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  DXWOM-TV Watcher Prime (Ghost Watcher Uplink)***-P (@EnigmaQorps) reported 5 minutes ago

  @sprosay10 @Supamusk123 Dear Elon, I have always been someone who respected you and never gave two shits how smart you were or what you did. There are times that we have disagreed but I never to decided the problem was you just because you bought a website that never was good as Myspace or AOL. If anything? Thank you for taking **** out of my data drop from my timeline in 2021. You showed me that I must have scared them so much that I knew whether or not a lens flare made anyone unhuman. Which is stupid. Science Exists.

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  Bill Waller (@BillWaller5) reported 8 minutes ago

  @SouthDallasFood Like "we" had on Myspace? You actually ADMIT publicly that you wasted your time on that terrible social platform that didn't work? What was your first move, AOL dial-up? Ha ha ha ha!

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  Terry Trent (@terrry3373) reported 8 minutes ago

  @xuzin3sefh I mean, I was in tech for so long running companies with a 56K modem you know back in the old days I mean, I ran companies during the time of AOL dial up America online. I don’t even know if you’ve heard of that but eventually, I got so burned out on it. I couldn’t even I played games Xbox PlayStation PC everything for 40 years you know it’s like after a while. I got so tired. I couldn’t even pick up the damn mouse for the keyboard. I just like I can’t do it. I’d buy like a PlayStation, which sits there for like two years before I even opened it and then I didn’t even play people think just working on PCs is nice and simple and oh no it’s not. It’s much more stressful people better realize they can burn themselves out permanently if they’re not careful.

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  #iheartMichaeljackson (@Sassy_Diva_2487) reported 8 minutes ago

  @AOL Oh look, another day, another broke-*** tabloid skeleton rattling its bones for clicks in 2026. @AOL yes, the same @AOL that’s been gasping for relevance since dial-up died rolling up like “Hey guys, remember that time we tried to cancel Michael Jackson with a raid that turned up NOTHING? Let’s rehash the ‘infamous’ Neverland Ranch again because Netflix needs your streams and we need ad revenue from you dummies who still click this trash

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  Greg (@gkamstra) reported 13 minutes ago

  @gordie_smith Eventbrite was a horrible public company. AOL is an ice cube. You can make really good money buying them cheap and running them off (or turning them around), but it works way better in private markets w 5-10 year horizons. Most of the companies that do this well (that I’m aware of) are privately held. Opentext would be an example of a public one. Super low multiples, pretty crappy performance (although did well early on when it was smaller). I wish them a ton of luck, but I just expect over a multi-year horizon, the market will decide it hates the stock even if they make good decisions and create value.

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  2xnmore (@2xnmore) reported 13 minutes ago

  Two people who were early in Bitcoin and early in Ethereum just went on record about $TAO. One of them wrote a book about Bitcoin in 2013. The other invested in the Ethereum ICO in 2015. Both of them started a fund with Jason Calacanis with a single thesis. Bittensor is the third great open-source substrate after Bitcoin and Ethereum. Here is the exact framing they used. In the early 90s Microsoft, AOL, and CompuServe were the well-capitalised incumbents. Everyone thought they would monopolise and run away with the internet. Then TCP/IP, Linux, and the World Wide Web came along and everything converged on an open-source substrate. Bittensor is that open-source substrate for the AI story playing out right now. OpenAI. Anthropic. Google DeepMind. XAI. Different cast of characters. Same pattern. And this time you can actually own a piece of the open-source substrate. Now read the valuation mismatch that should stop you cold. The four main AI labs combined are worth approximately $1.5 trillion. Bittensor is worth $1.7 billion. Ridges subnet competes directly with Claude and Cursor and has beaten them on benchmarks. Ridges market cap is $30 million. Cursor is worth $30 billion. That is not a small dislocation. That is a comical one. The highest valued subnet in the entire ecosystem is around $80 million. There has never been a billion dollar subnet yet. On Ethereum during the ICO mania projects with nowhere near this quality of output were raising hundreds of millions within minutes. Now think about how many orders of magnitude more capital is chasing AI opportunities today compared to 2017. When that capital discovers Bittensor the valuation rerating will be violent to the upside. Their exact words. Not mine. The man who called $TAO at $3,000 by end of 2026 said it directly. By 2030 it will be a trillion dollar ecosystem. Every molecule in my body is screaming this is another one. The people who read the docs always buy before the people who read the price. This is still early.

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  George Cheng (@MrGeorgeCheng) reported 16 minutes ago

  AOL had 30M users, and the internet locked down. Then the open web ate it. Anthropic and OpenAI are playing AOL right now. The Fable 5 rug pull just showed every enterprise exactly what it looks like to depend on closed AI. The off switch exists. Someone else holds it. Llama, Mistral, Qwen - they're not "almost as good" anymore. For most enterprise workloads, they're good enough. And they run on your own hardware. Apple MLX + NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops + rapidly improving open weights = the mainframe-to-PC transition, happening in real time. Open-source AI will do to Frontier Labs what the open internet did to AOL. History doesn't always repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. The only question is how long you keep building on someone else's infrastructure before you start owning yours.

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  Bill Pratt (@draglist) reported 16 minutes ago

  Never used AOL but everything else. Yup.

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  Reiki Momma (@Luminary_Wings) reported 18 minutes ago

  @iH8Meccavellii Exactly. She really messed up AOL public perception with all that damn talking she was doing.

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  Agenda Apex (@AgendaApex) reported 19 minutes ago

  Oh, wonderful. Another glowing obituary for the 2010 Bitcoin faucet. Yes, we missed it while we were out here perfecting the art of burning movies and waiting for AOL to stop screaming. Thanks for the reminder that our 'get rich slow' scheme was actually just 'get rich never.' Next up: time machine crowdfunding?