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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AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Sir Ernest Shackleton (@ErniShackleton) reported 2 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Who ******** used map quest anymore. I thought it died along with AOL

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  Todd AF (@BigTodd1776) reported 2 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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  Amazing.AI. (@amazing_AI_) reported 2 minutes ago

  @ThisOldTech2 As a computer user since '94, I'm trying to figure out why I never got a browser in a box. of course, I did access the Web through AOL at the beginning. 🤔

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  Mason Moses (@MasonMoses_TX) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Google requiring you to scan a QR code on your own phone to login is probably the least helpful technology in existence. Yes, it gives you “other options” though those rarely work without you doing it 5-6 times. They need to fix that or YMail or AOL is beginning to sound better.

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  Augusto's Air-Taxi Service (@Manservant_H) reported 3 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Holy crap, I need to see if my AOL address still works

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  C.R. Kiser (@ckiser40) reported 8 minutes ago

  @ambermac AOL users and Blackberry users rejoice! What a **** app.

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  JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported 11 minutes ago

  @RWMaloneMD #HistoryMatters - seeing your uninformed Virgina rant on #DateCenters thought I might give you something to reflect upon: AOL started in Northern Virginia. It began in 1985 in Vienna as Quantum Computer Services, became America Online, and in 1996 moved its headquarters to Dulles/Ashburn in Loudoun County. Around the same time, UUNet/WorldCom was nearby. Those companies pulled in fiber and built early server facilities. Even more important was MAE-East (Metropolitan Area Exchange–East), one of the first big internet exchange points. It started in Fairfax County / Tysons around 1992 and later moved to Loudoun to sit closer to AOL and the other networks. At one point a huge share of U.S. internet traffic passed through it. Once networks had to meet there to exchange traffic, everyone else followed. Equinix built early Ashburn facilities for that reason. After the dot-com bust, AOL faded, but it left behind unused “dark fiber,” empty buildings, and a dense interconnection hub. Local officials later marketed that leftover infrastructure to data-center developers. AOL’s old campus itself has been torn down or converted into more data centers. Why it kept growing after AOL The cluster stuck because of a pile-on of advantages: Fiber density and low latency. Once the exchanges and carriers were there, it became the cheapest, fastest place to interconnect. A commonly cited figure is that a large share of global internet traffic still touches Loudoun. Proximity to Washington. Federal agencies, defense contractors, and intelligence work created early demand for secure computing nearby. Power and land. Dominion Energy power was relatively cheap and available. Eastern Loudoun still had large industrial parcels near Dulles when the boom started. Tax policy. Virginia added a sales-and-use tax exemption on data-center equipment (servers, generators, cooling, etc.) around 2008–2010. That became one of the state’s biggest economic-development incentives and made Virginia hard to beat on cost. Network effects. Each new data center made the next one more valuable, because customers want to be next to other networks, clouds, and content providers. So: AOL and MAE-East planted the flag in the 1990s. Cheap power, leftover fiber, DC proximity, and later tax breaks turned a local internet hub into the world’s largest data-center market. Ashburn/Loudoun is still the core; growth has since spilled into Prince William and other Virginia counties as land and power in the original alley got scarce.

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  Amanda Rankin (@tigerbitewand) reported 16 minutes ago

  Catfish people I mean like for real they're scamming stupid people I'm not a stupid person on XP I could actually go into the register keys and pull out Trojan horses like AOL... It was not allowed on my computer it was not one of my emails Yahoo was... Anybody else recognize how

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  Davidvinc (@TheDavidVinc) reported 16 minutes ago

  I remember when I was young and my mother would take me to the mall. I would bring a small notepad and pencil, then sit in Walden Books and write down things I had to do where I was stuck when I couldn't afford the guide. And as far as Gamefaqs is concerned, I don't think I knew that existed till like 1998 or 1999. It's not like we had social media to talk about different websites, I had to search using AOL keywords.

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  DJ Richards (@stumblebum54) reported 22 minutes ago

  I’ve come to realize that Facebook is the AOL of social media. Horrible app developers. Probably hired them all from AOL.