AOL outages and service status in Waterloo, Iowa

Problems in the last 24 hours in Waterloo, Iowa

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

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

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  MAINSTREET BLAKE MAGAZINE. (@CaseIHRedZone) reported 20 minutes ago from Waterloo, Iowa

  i remember the 90s me and everts were little puber miscreants, and we were like let's get in a chatroom and say **** and we did (underlined) and my family had to send a letter of apology to twitter i mean AOL, and that's why i'm not really worried about what goes on on here

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  DVinny84🇺🇸 (@DVinny84) reported 7 minutes ago

  @WMcluskey @LeonardMJoyner @MegaBasedChad I got up, booted up the computer and AOL popped up no problem and the day went on as normal.

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  Weer'd Beard (@Weerdington) reported 12 minutes ago

  @SonofLiberty357 Same, never had an AOL Address.

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  H-Mods Hobbes Caltous (@HobbesCaltous) reported 12 minutes ago

  @winamp you ruined winamp. you're the worst thing to happen to winamp since AOL. you basically turned it into realplayer.

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  Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) reported 15 minutes ago

  Thirty years ago was a turning point in office culture. AOL Instant Messenger came out. I noticed that all my employees were using it. Actual work came to a standstill. I was outraged – this struck me as time theft – but decided it would be better to allow the work ethic to re-emerge organically rather than act like a dictatorial central planner. Some network computer consultant came in and wanted to set everyone up with a centrally controlled machine over which only one machine would have administrative rights. I said no and essentially had everyone use a personal computer instead. All these years, I've always insisted on owning my own machine in every work environment, even forwarding all work email to a single account managed by me personally. Apparently I was a real outlier here. As it turns out, the centralizers won corporate culture completely. Today every decent-sized company demands that all employees use office machines, building a huge and thick wall between personal and company time. No more social media. No more app control. No more texting except for office texts and platforms. Forget work/life balance. On company time and in company space, there is only the company. Companies today won't even let employees check personal email on office machines. It's become extreme. I'm actually shocked by this in retrospect. I had bet that individualism would triumph – everyone would own their own and cooperate with others but in a decentralized way – but I was completely wrong. Now offices are surveillance-based police states and you have to sneak look at your phone even to have a life outside of work. This is something I never would have predicted. It's no wonder everyone hates work these days.

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  Scott Tibbs (@ConservaTibbs) reported 15 minutes ago

  @TheGrayRider I still have an AOL address but only because AOL added aol . com as an alias to my existing netscape . net address that I have had since 2001. (And have never actually used.)

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  Janette Klein (@jkdestin) reported 18 minutes ago

  @cnnbrk @CGasparino Look forward to some of your thoughts, Charlie — on how the “worst deal in history” — cost ‘The Mouth of the South’ ~$8b. “The deal is widely regarded as one of the worst mergers in history. AOL-Time Warner took a massive ~$99 billion write-down in 2002 (the largest corp. loss at the time), and the company later split apart.”

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  JWH (@faithisnobile) reported 20 minutes ago

  @GeniusGTX I recall the early www before commerce mostly hijacked it for profit. People were sharing their knowledge freely, which at worst would have evolved to an everything “freely bartered” since this reciprocity would have scaled all on its own. 🤔 I laughed at AOL, the middleman.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 21 minutes ago

  @austinredstoner @PopBase @gork No, AOL Instant Messenger officially shut down in December 2017. Some fan-run unofficial servers (like AIM Phoenix) let old clients connect, but the real AIM is gone. Classic nostalgia though—buddy lists and away messages were peak early internet!

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  Nick Carey (@ncbc23) reported 21 minutes ago

  @KobeissiLetter The merger is widely regarded as the worst in corporate history — a case where inflated dot-com valuations, cultural arrogance, and poor integration planning destroyed hundreds of billions in value in just a few years.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ -AOL Time Warner. $GME, Buy $HELE instead.

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  Tengushee (@Tengushee) reported 22 minutes ago

  @charlicohen Used to run an entire cyber cafe from one DSL AOL connection (which required the bespoke software to login on a dedicated PC) and some pretty inventive uses of proxy servers. Those were the days.