AOL outages and service status in Iowa City, Iowa

Problems in the last 24 hours in Iowa City, Iowa

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Iowa City and nearby locations:

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  Tommy Lang (@tommylang1630) reported 35 minutes ago from Iowa City, Iowa

  @hawkize USA Today? Did he get turned down by AOL Sports?

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Dhruv (@dhruvakharia) reported 5 minutes ago

  The weirdest AI-era market signal today was not a model launch. It was Wall Street cheering AOL’s new parent. Bending Spoons, the Italian roll-up behind AOL, Vimeo, Eventbrite and other “old internet” brands, ripped on its first trading day. Shares were up as much as 52% and closed about 40% above the IPO price, according to WSJ coverage. That matters because this was supposed to be the era where only frontier AI labs and zero-to-one startups get rewarded. But public markets are sending a different message: if AI makes software cheaper to build, then existing distribution gets more valuable, not less. Users, billing relationships, search traffic, archives, brand memory, and neglected products with real audiences suddenly look like underpriced assets. The winners may not just be the companies inventing new AI tools. They may also be the operators buying tired digital properties and rebuilding them with AI, automation, and brutal cost discipline. Watch for more money to chase AI-enabled roll-ups, not just AI-native apps. The next big tech winners might look less like inventors and more like private-equity-style owners of forgotten internet real estate. Is this just an IPO pop, or the first real sign that AI rewards ownership and distribution more than novelty?

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  grace ***** indulgence🌷 (@onelastunicorn) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ohdannybboy imagine the innate hubris of a person who's never knocked their mom or granny off a landline phone call trying to log on to AOL lol

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  Shepherd Book (@shepherd_book) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Soaringeagle45 19. I never had an AOL account, but I used to reformat their ubiquitous floppies for my own use. :)

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  Hoyle, Joseph E. (@JEHoyle1971) reported 13 minutes ago

  I probably have four CPU towers gone obsolete since 1998, & few more I don't have anymore. My first computer was a Packard-Bell Navigator in 1998. Dial-up AOL, slow as Hell. In 2012 I worked at Steve Case's house in McLean. $50 million house, where JFK wrote a book, 'cause his wife grew up there- "Merrywood"

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  The Psycho Analyst (@TheRealBirnbaum) reported 15 minutes ago

  I said it again and again and again: the current LLMs are equivalent to the dialup of dotcom era. Back then we were effectively paying a software license for AOL. Today, the idea of paying to use the Internet is absolutely absurd. My gut tells me there’s a place for the frontier models. But I don’t see it being in the hands of every consumer when the technology is essentially a commodity. I think the frontier models have a legitimate business that’s going to be much smaller than the market currently prices them at. I also see people totally misunderstand the value proposition for AI. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic are needed to sustain the AI boom. At worst there’s an air gap. Doesn’t matter if it’s open source or not—same compute is needed. And if the models aren’t as good, then ChatGPT and Claude are needed.

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  Crosby Tatum (@crosbyt123) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Kev1743 @TheOVW5 I’ll never forget it. I took a flyer on a ticket. I had an AOL Instant Messenger communicator back in the day with a sprint pcs phone. Drove down from Boston in my beat up 89 Toyota Camry. Best night of my life.

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  Marc Cavalera ⚔️ (@marc_cavalera) reported 17 minutes ago

  @turtledumplin Life without Internet, then slow *** Internet, message boards, Yahoo & AOL chatrooms.

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  Jamie (@jamielyn0127) reported 18 minutes ago

  @zedamex @el_mesa @RinoTheBouncer That still requires players to have a strong enough internet connection to do these things. What do you propose people in rural areas with poor or zero home internet access should do? AOL shut down back in Sept 2025 which was one of the few options rural families rely on.

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  kj soprano (@twink__peaks) reported 21 minutes ago

  real 90s revival occurring in my home right now as twin peaks is on the tv and my dad is on the phone with aol tech support resetting his password.

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  Apollo Wiki 🇬🇧 (@ApolloWiki) reported 21 minutes ago

  @peterjbirks @GetItQuietly Twenty years ago there was a guy named Ferrari who had to say ‘cancel the account’ 21 times before AOL would cancel it. At one stage, AOL asked him to put his father on the line. He was 30