AOL outages and service status in Wheaton, Illinois

Problems in the last 24 hours in Wheaton, Illinois

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

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

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  The Wheels (@RonTheWheel) reported 16 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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  Real Couv Man (@CouvMan) reported 2 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19, I never used AOL

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  Call Your First Witness (@RickRoot714) reported 8 minutes ago

  @jonstewart Wasn’t the implosion of AOL caused because they started out charging their customers use by the hour and people were paying three and $400 a month to use AOL, because they were fresh, they were new and everybody wanted in. Then along came Earthlink and other dial-up network providers who charged you $20 a month. And people were leaving AOL in droves. And the bottom fell out.

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  Vikas(Vik) Malpani| AI for US Real Estate (@vikasmalpani) reported 9 minutes ago

  Look at who bought it. Bending Spoons has acquired Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, Brightcove, Vimeo and AOL. The pattern never changes: buy a beloved product at a discount, cut costs hard, raise prices, and run it for profit instead of growth.

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  Humble Student ⚔️ (@jaysinjailagain) reported 10 minutes ago

  @OddStats Nightmarish. I was lucky enough to be sent to a private school and I remember kids just not coming back the following year. They’d tell me on aol instant messenger that their families couldn’t afford it, they were moving, etc… The son of a family friend worked in tech as a twenty something in the late 90’s. I remember he was driving that BMW z3 they had in the Bond movies. Always had expensive clothes, etc…moved back in with his parents. Of course as a kid I had no idea what was going on around me but to endure that as an adult must’ve been reality warping. It explains so much of the positioning around this AI hype. Everyone who endured the dotcom has clearly vowed to never see it again.

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  Kite Lake Studio (@KiteLakeStudio) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Based_SpaceGoji Fun fact from the prehistory of the web: In the summer of 1993, when this movie came out, there were no web browsers. (Using AOL was nothing like surfing the web a few years later.) So there was no easy way to go online and look something up, and resolve a disagreement. For example... I knew at least two kids at my high school who were SURE those were pterodactyls flying away at the end. I was like, "Dude, they were pelicans. Why would the heroes be calmly watching and smiling at dinosaurs escaping the f---ing island?" But there was no way to convince them. No way to just go on a website and look it up, and show them. The fact is, before everyone had easy access to the web, life was full of really stupid little disagreements like that, especially when you were a kid. Did the kid from the Life Cereal commercials die from eating pop-rocks with Coke? Did Alfonso Ribeiro break his neck doing a headspin? For me, at least, those pelicans at the end of Jurassic Park were the last example of that particular kind of stupid argument. A year later, Netscape launched. One more thing... I always wondered if Spielberg heard stories of people mistaking those pelicans for pterodactyls, and was annoyed by it. Especially when I saw the sequel, and it ends with what is very, very clearly a pterodactyl spreading its wings in the sunlight. As if Spielberg was saying, "Here, dumbasses, THAT's a pterodactyl."

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  Peter Wharton (@PeterVWha) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SandraB81459197 Full house then👏👏 I only got 17 even tho I’m probably a few years older Never bothered buying a Walkman or using AOL (used an English provider) nor a paper mat

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  Methodical (@objectextinct) reported 13 minutes ago

  @hthieblot apps didn't exist but Gamestorm. AOL was running a $2 an hour game service for a few early MMOs like Starship Troopers battlespace. Even Spades cost $1/hr. Eventually a game service called "Gamestorm" had a bunch of games like multiplayer Warcraft 2, Godzilla Online, Starship Troopers, Aliens, Silent Death, Legends of Kesmai, board games ..etc for $15 a month. So everyone from AOL could play Starship Troopers or Silent Death (Both top down space shooters) unlimited and we would regularly take breaks on the other games. There wasn't anything else like it at the time. Then all the games got deleted and rights issues means they all disappeared forever, rip.

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  RealLifeRyan (@RealLifeRyan_) reported 14 minutes ago

  MySpace, Homestarrunner, Sumbleupon, Kazaa, limewire, various old DBZ and anime sites I’ll never remember the names of, message boards being a big thing, AOL chat rooms, and so much more

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  Chris Buehler Sr (@BuehlerSr36868) reported 16 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19 never used aol

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  Matt (@MM_USA_2020) reported 17 minutes ago

  Highly recommend anyone still using @AOL to stop immediately. Its impossible to login on different devices and when the verification code isn't received customer service is useless and just hangs up without explanation just saying they "can't proceed with the call"