AOL outages and service status in Elgin, Illinois

Problems in the last 24 hours in Elgin, Illinois

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

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  Miss EsqHire (@MissEsqHire) reported 6 minutes ago

  Claude v Harvey: My candidate at a small, no-name firm is about to turn down an offer from an international law firm because they use Harvey and his current firm uses Claude. Apparently he cannot live without Claude. Can someone explain this to me like I’m my mom in the ’90s discovering AOL?

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  Ragh Pandragon (@RaghPandragon) reported 7 minutes ago

  The truth is stranger. Long ago in the 90's there was still magic in the world every time you wanted to get on the internet you had to electrocute one fairy. Just one. Unfortunately disconnects were an issue. Slowly, one connection at a time, we fed all of the magic creatures into the gaping maw of oblivion to power our ICQ chats and AOL instant messengers. At least until Human Energy Update 3.9 Service Pack 2. Now every time you log in you just lose a little bit of your own soul, no fairy deaths required.

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  Ryan Clark (@ryan_theprofit) reported 11 minutes ago

  My dad replied to news about my girlfriend with a green check mark. Honestly, appropriate. Our generation only writes well over text because we had to get good at it to date. AOL Instant Messenger, then years of practice with the stakes turned all the way up. His generation never needed the skill, so they never built it. The thumbs up isn't him being short with you. It's the whole sentence.

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  Reason Ate Opinions (@Scott076973722) reported 11 minutes ago

  @theamelia___ 19, I never bothered with AOL except to use the free discs as coasters.

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  Victor (@gvictor808) reported 14 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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  Peetie Peete (@Peetie_Peete) reported 17 minutes ago

  @BrianRoemmele I was working for NyNex in NYC and installed some of the first residential ISDN data lines. Years later, folks started using dial-up internet service after getting AOL cd's in the mail. Then we graduated to DSL and thought the future is here! It's funny looking back at it all.

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  LStrick 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 (@LRanlo1) reported 21 minutes ago

  @RazorRamone76 too bad we can force them to hear the hooking up loop that was awful on an endless loop (AOL)

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  Todd AF (@BigTodd1776) reported 25 minutes ago

  @DavidShafer I thought @mapquest went out with AOL online, my bad...I do remember when cassette tape got feisty with Compact Disk for about 15 minutes, then they just went away. Bye Mapquest.

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  Crowsky📎 (@Crowsky13) reported 28 minutes ago

  @IzzatStatus The subscription model has been coming for years tbh. Remember how AOL stayed in business simply because so many people never canceled? Combined with the full erosion of ToS contracts, consumers are getting the shaft big time

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  KingStudebaker (@KingStudebaker) reported 32 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Lol. People use this ap??? Let me get my old AOL account and login