AOL outages and service status in Des Moines, Iowa

Problems in the last 24 hours in Des Moines, Iowa

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Des Moines and nearby locations:

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  Chase Eslinger (@ChaseEslinger) reported 20 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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  dorked_web (@dorked_web) reported 4 minutes ago

  It really is true that if you go on here just to hang out and have fun with people all over the internet, it's almost possible to get a little taste of like early-2000's forums and stuff (or for some, maybe AOL chat rooms). I long for the day I can nuke my other account.

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  Dark Skies (@DarkSkiesNE) reported 4 minutes ago

  @LibertyPDX1 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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  Robert (@RobertKidd0x) reported 11 minutes ago

  I'm old enough to remember the days when people said the internet would never catch on and just be a fad. Look how far we've come from dial-up and AOL. We're at a similar beginning now with AI. When change is unavoidable, you have to embrace it, if you are to survive.

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  Paul Moore (@ftlpaul8) reported 17 minutes ago

  @AOL : WARNING - If forced to upgrade to paid subscription to “reset” password, you will not be able to return to “free” plan, even if you block future charges on your credit card. They charge you anyway. Call them: you hold for an hour. Then they say they’ll fix it, but don’t!

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  RonShiley (@RonShiley) reported 18 minutes ago

  @CitysideFiber Might be the worst service I've ever had. Regret making the switch. I don't think dial up AOL was as bad. The amount of interruptions is excessive.

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  Blessed E v (@Blessed_EV1221) reported 18 minutes ago

  @AwakenedOutlaw AOl is right on right on! Or she's just down right lying because she knows lefties love fraud - so Cloward-Piven, blame your enemy for what you are doing. Projection!

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  Michael (@Michael_Psalm51) reported 19 minutes ago

  Yahoo email I get ads in my inbox and I can’t delete them Upgrade required to go ad free. Sucks Go back to AOL 😳

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  VoodooX-Rocket (@VoodooXRocket) reported 20 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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  Steve Harvey 🇬🇧🇨🇦 (@steveharvey2001) reported 23 minutes ago

  @AntiEVidiots When EVs were niche, driving one was like being part of a community with a shared secret. Similar to being on the internet in the early 1990s, before the AOL hordes turned up with their poor netiquette.

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  Gary Eppenbaugh (@garyeppenbaugh) reported 29 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