AOL outages and service status in Bedford, Massachusetts

Problems in the last 24 hours in Bedford, Massachusetts

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Bedford, Massachusetts and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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  Zak🇵🇸BRING VALKO BACK☄Get Legacy Cast in FF7R🌸 (@Zakksu) reported 6 minutes ago

  @nasykuching Back in the 90s when I had AOL dial up I used to print all the fanfics I wanted to read offline bcuz our landline phone was always used by my mom to call family overseas So I think printing them out for personal use shouldn't be a problem so long as you aren't trying to profit🤔

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  Daniil (@DaniilBuilds) reported 8 minutes ago

  AOL and Time Warner didn’t just pay for what the two companies were worth in January 2000. They paid for what they believed the two companies could become together. The announced merger was valued at roughly $350B, with AOL shareholders expected to own about 55% of the combined company. The logic was easy to understand: combine AOL’s internet business with Time Warner’s media assets and create value neither could generate alone. But there was a financial problem hiding inside that logic. Future synergies are uncertain. The merger closed in January 2001. SEC disclosures later put the acquisition cost at approximately $147B. Then came the accounting reckoning. In 2002, the combined company reported a $98.7B net loss, including a $54.2B goodwill impairment. That $54.2B was non-cash. It did not mean the company suddenly paid out $54.2B in cash. It meant the value previously assigned to acquired goodwill could no longer be supported at the same level. That distinction matters. When you pay upfront for future synergies, you are effectively putting a price on value that still depends on execution. If the synergies arrive, the premium can make sense. If they don’t, shareholders can end up carrying the cost. The most expensive synergy is the one you pay for before you prove it exists.

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  jah🪬 (@JahdaKisura) reported 8 minutes ago

  @elefaantz literally like i love mel and sol but admitted mel ate sol up but i still agree w aol on the bryce and trinity thing. and then amora ate mel up so bad and that’s okay!!!😭 your faves can be wrong but they don’t get that

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  Mike Keys (@MikeKeys12119) reported 8 minutes ago

  @TexasRepublic71 I can’t find their website bc my dial up signal quit working after AOL died off. Lol

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  Kitty 🐈 Ⓜ️🕸MikeCryptoLife 🛡🐈 (@mikecryptolife) reported 11 minutes ago

  @theswansjr Internet isn't a good example. It's like saying ohhh we can see because there is light, name something that's replaced light. You should ask about AOL, Netscape, napster type ****. Those were the Bitcoins of internet

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  Victor (@gvictor808) reported 17 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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  Poow | Open Commission on Vgen (@Poowploof) reported 18 minutes ago

  Alucard had astigmatism before being infected by a demon (why he qualified to AoL? Well, Tigreal.) Apparently when he was younger, he not only had bad eyesight but also bad taste in men.

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  Oh, Sup Y'all (@OhSupYall) reported 20 minutes ago

  @NostalgiaFolder “Get off stupid AOL I need to use the phone!”

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  Thales of Florida (@FloridaThales) reported 24 minutes ago

  @MorlockP Blue collar business is fascinating to me because it's relatively simple (not easy, the work is hard) to succeed in it. Yet so many become broke or never make it. Then you see why. AOL email addresses, people who don't show up on time, never returning sales lead calls. Etc.

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  Rakesh Agrawal (@RakeshSFNYC) reported 25 minutes ago

  @ckneumann The dev team I worked with on one of my projects at Aol was from Mapquest. Absolute worst team I've ever worked with. But in this case, the fault was leadership.