AOL outages and service status in Western Springs, Illinois

Problems in the last 24 hours in Western Springs, Illinois

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Western Springs and nearby locations:

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  The Wheels (@RonTheWheel) reported 27 minutes ago from Downers Grove, Illinois

  @MatseyPat AOL must be down.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  🤍🩵🩷~rotten candy~🩷🩵🤍 (@rottencxndy) reported 9 minutes ago

  type of **** that would get sent to your moms AOL from jibjab dot com in 2002

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  f_marzotto (@f_marzotto) reported 9 minutes ago

  $BSP is a masterpiece. Just not of innovation. Working in Big Tech, you get used to seeing what actual scale and innovation look like. So watching Italy crown Bending Spoons as its great tech champion - a team that buys beloved, declining brands like AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, and Meetup to "revive" them - has been fascinating. Their $18 billion IPO is largely deserved: they are exceptional operators. They make neglected software fast and profitable. The machine works. But there are two things you can do to a fading product. You can make it modern and profitable again - or you can make it win again, attracting new people who genuinely love it. Bending Spoons does the first brilliantly. The second, almost never. Their own SEC prospectus reveals the trick. Organic growth was 13% last year, and just 6% last quarter. Net revenue retention is 94%, meaning each cohort of users is worth less a year later, even after aggressive price hikes. This isn't a base being won back; it's a base leaking quietly, taxed harder on the way out. This is exactly why comparing them to Big Tech is so revealing. Picture $META putting WhatsApp or Instagram behind a paywall tomorrow. There would be a global uproar. Meta has the most locked-in audience on Earth, yet they refuse to charge them. Why? Because they are still chasing growth. Bending Spoons charges its captive audiences precisely because it has no growth left to protect. They execute the exact playbook that would make Meta a supervillain, but on smaller apps with weaker exits - and we call it genius. The reviled villain treats its users better than the celebrated innovator. A true maker earns its price by building something genuinely better; you pay because you want to stay. Bending Spoons didn't build these products; braver people did. They buy them when they are loved and hard to quit, and turn them into extraction machines. They are professional converters of makers into takers. Charging people because they want to stay makes everyone richer. Charging them because they can't leave just moves money from users to shareholders. One is a gain for the world. The other is a transfer. And every switch they flip is one more bill on people already drowning in subscriptions, asked to pay again for what they once had free. Of course, the business works. Rent extraction is the safest business on earth: low risk, fast payback, nothing to invent. But compare that to actual innovation. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, he took real risk on things that didn't exist yet: Tesla forced open the EV industry, SpaceX made rockets reusable, and each time the rest of the world had to follow. He earned his success by growing the pie; Bending Spoons pours the same ingenuity into nag screens and cancellation mazes, carving up a pie someone else baked. Let's not call a toll booth a cathedral. Celebrate rent-collection as innovation, and we teach our best makers to optimize the past instead of building the future.

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  🦅 Lori 🕊⚖ (@Avaldrv) reported 13 minutes ago

  @505Cali2 I've been saying this online since the chat rooms way back on AOL. The Christians used to say I was listening to the devil. Their self-righteousness gave me a bad impression of Christians. I consider myself a follower of Christ's teachings, not a follower of a blood sacrifice.

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  Jamie (@jamielyn0127) reported 14 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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  Michael L. Gaugler (@gaumishang) reported 16 minutes ago

  @cutoffs_io I am freaking Gaumishang everywhere. Twitter LinkedIn Yahoo AOL you name it I unified my entire online presence decades ago and still refuse to have a Facebook account because first of all that ******* is an ******* and does not have the American people's interests in mind. You can even look up my thesis film at UB, those of you who use it are buffoons. PK12 BA MAH BSEd.🙏🇺🇸

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  Michele Johnson (@joh9056) reported 18 minutes ago

  Thank God I figured it out. Since about 7:30pm yesterday or a bit earlier, my signal dropped so low I felt like I was on AOL dialup. A hair away from unusable. Speed was 1200 baud level. I was blocked from the Internet completely using a browser. Faris’s hackers, either in the arctic or Ron’s crew across the street hacked my phone and turned on the phone’s WiFi. There was no WiFi icon on the screen that obviously would have alerted me. I found it by discovering my phones cellular connection had been changed to 5G for everything, yet LTE was showing on the screen. 14 calls to the cellular carrier in an effort to get help were canceled. Now I know by whom, and why. Last night I was on hold for twenty minutes for two separate calls with no pickup. Today I called 12 times and finally figured out a faster way to dial (don’t ask) so a few calls got through but were then disconnected, two got through to the automated help but when they transferred me to the help people the call was disconnected. And to top off this marvelous day, I was forced to file a theft report for two missing firearms. This is getting really serious. One of those firearms has a Good chance of being in the attic…… He asked to take what I thought were very questionable photos -we’ll see……….. I would not have even called the Sheriff’s department after the horrible experiences I’ve had, but as of July 1, 2026, in this county anyway, filing a report for stolen firearms is mandatory. Everyone who is a Targeted Individual needs to post every day on social medial with LINKS so more people are aware of this sick program and gang stalking. I have posted them repeatedly so look at my Posts and Replies and you’ll find them. But most importantly, NEVER, EVER, Give Up. Turn every attack, every hassle into a challenge. Become a survivor, not a victim.

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  Kevin Shuley (@eternity_comics) reported 19 minutes ago

  @ThrillaRilla369 I remember the AOL chatrooms, you couldn't call someone a moron online, they'd cancel your account for 6 months over it and say it's a family community

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  Juan Wick (@jfsworks) reported 19 minutes ago

  @CedricMcMillan5 @FadeAwayMedia Yes. That is what everyone claims. It actually went down hill during the AOL Time warner deal and sold away. Everyone forgets about that.

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  👑✨Leegggss👅🌈 (@SkatesNaked) reported 19 minutes ago

  @AOL Is The Worst Email Recipient I Have Ever Experienced,I Need To Speak With A Live Person!!!!

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  Torgo (@SonOfPhales) reported 25 minutes ago

  @PoopJohnx4q5 @TheDokJ @Qveen_Potato it was some wild west ****, frfr. but i was talking about dial up. aol disks. 1000 hours. anyone remember when you had to pay by the hour? no? me either.