AOL outages and service status in Roscoe, Illinois

Problems in the last 24 hours in Roscoe, Illinois

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Roscoe, 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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  Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray (@SJ_Murray) reported 6 minutes ago

  @johnhboyer Lol. Think about this: it was started in 1987. Planning began in 1985, before the modern standard web browser existed. I remember thinking, when I learned shout it at Ga Tech, that it was wild that someone envisioned putting a library contacts online only 2 years after TCP/ IP protocol became standard. And before the www as we know it came into being (around 1989). Quantum Computing Service, founded the same year in 1985, didn’t even become AOL until 1991. Talk about vision!

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 6 minutes ago

  Researchers tracked 344,753 websites over 18 months to map where American attention actually goes online. The answer is email. Gmail alone is 16% of all desktop time. Add Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL, and inboxes eat nearly a quarter of every hour Americans spend at a computer. That's double the combined total of Facebook, X, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and WhatsApp. The legacy numbers are the wild part. Yahoo Mail, at 3.71%, gets more attention than ChatGPT, Reddit, and Netflix combined. AOL Mail, a service most people assume died with dial-up, beats Instagram and Discord combined. Yahoo still has roughly 225 million active mail users, skewing Gen X and Boomer: people who opened an account in 1999 and never saw a reason to leave. Google Search sits at just 2.33%. The front door of the entire internet gets less time than Yahoo's inbox, because search is engineered to end fast. Every second you spend on a results page is a second Google failed. The chart measures desktop, which explains the shape. Your phone is where you play. Your computer is where you work. And the work of being an American in 2026, the bills, the receipts, the school notices, the job applications, still runs through a protocol invented in 1971. Strip away 30 years of apps and the desktop internet is a post office with better graphics.

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  ⚡imp0stor⚡₿ (@x_imp0stor) reported 6 minutes ago

  @FullMetalTrav I was the architect of the AOL help page deployment on the vendor side for 10 or so years. I optimized and redeployed the entire stack more than one time. It took around 52 servers to handle the traffic spikes and was split between 2 data centers w/ failover.

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  The Digital Archaeologist (@TheDataTomb) reported 8 minutes ago

  The only problem I have with X is that I never feel like I’m genuinely talking to people or replying/getting replies from real people. I wish it felt like the old days in AOL chat rooms where it felt like real people surrounded our conversations. It feels all botted and AI now.

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  Robyn O'Donnell (@RobynDODonnell) reported 8 minutes ago

  @FOXLA All I can say is Paramount+ sucks. I tried it twice. It is a technical glitch disaster on my TV. It just loads like it was AOL dial-up! Give me a break!

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  ArudhiJ (@ArudhiJ) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ehdande Says a real estate developer🧐 Since when did you hear matatu owners support a light rail transport system! AOL

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  Chris Farrell (@chrispfarrell) reported 17 minutes ago

  I think OpenAI and Anthropic might be the CompuServe and AOL of the AI era. Does anyone actually think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, X/Twitter, and all of the other big tech companies will just allow these 2 badly run startups to capture the AI market? OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat or sustainable competitive advantage. To win they have to not only develop a moat but penetrate some of the most fortified moats. Model quality isn't a moat. Kimi, Grok, Deepseek proved that. Inference will become a commodity utility that requires massive CapEx that neither can finance. Interface is where the moat is the weakest. OpenAI and Anthropic do not own the apps or the OS. The OS and apps are owned by parties who view OpenAI or Anthropic as threats. The OS and apps are where AI choice happens. As if that is not grim enough, AI sovereignty will become an issue. Consumers will want their iCloud data to stay in iCloud, their OneDrive data to stay in OneDrive, etc. Enterprise customers will want AI from their cloud providers to reduce egress and for performance + IP reasons. It is honestly hard to imagine a world where OpenAI and Anthropic survive as they are. They will either morph into companies with entirely different value offerings or die like Compuserve and AOL.

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  ySo (@SupremerZ) reported 18 minutes ago

  @JohnHolbein1 AOL mail must be the damn boomers destroying the country

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  Abby_NormaL (@AbbyNormaL131) reported 20 minutes ago

  @BuzzPatterson Don't ever try and cancel it! It's worse than trying to cancel your AOL account!! We had to lock the card we used because even tho we cancelled it, and they confirmed it... They still kept trying to charge us

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  Wompus Poe (@WompusPoe) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Lockload15 Damn dial up internet, should have switched to high speed dial up and AOL mail lol!!!