AOL outages and service status in Waltham, Massachusetts

Problems in the last 24 hours in Waltham, Massachusetts

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

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  🇺🇸Rock Me SAMadeus🇮🇹 (@SamRC1987) reported 7 minutes ago

  While we're bringing back MySpace, let's please bring back AOL/AIM, so that I can ditch all of this crap and go meet back up with the other 38-ish-year-olds with lower back pain. We'll interact and log off for the day, and then log back on after Mom is finished with the phone.

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  Humble Student ⚔️ (@jaysinjailagain) reported 7 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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  Mike Presky (@michaelpresky) reported 7 minutes ago

  @mitchellvii Have used a wide variety of software programs and media platforms over the past 40 years. And X is definitely the worst I've ever seen. An incredibly bad design poorly implemented. It's like something some high school students made for a school project. Can't even correct a typo in a post, which was something we could do easily back in the 90s. America Online (anyone remember AOL?) was more modern and sophisticated and with fewer bugs.

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  Sweatpants Chef (@mistersplittee) reported 8 minutes ago

  @bohoconserve @EliLake time to cancel your aol subscription and shut the computer down for a while grandma, your peanuts and pumpkins miss you and hate how much time you spend online yelling your nonsense, they say it feels like talking to a rusty decrepit toilet.

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  The maestro (@maestroslay) reported 10 minutes ago

  Marc Andreessen wrote a browser at 22 and took a company with no profits public at $2,900,000,000 in a single day. He built Mosaic as a student employee at the University of Illinois supercomputing center, paid $6.85 an hour. It was the first browser that showed images alongside text. The university claimed the software. He left for California, and Jim Clark, who had already founded Silicon Graphics, funded him to build it again from scratch. Netscape Navigator shipped in late 1994 and took most of the web inside months. The IPO came in August 1995, 16 months after founding. The company had almost no revenue and no profit at all. Shares were set at $28 and opened at $71. The close valued Netscape near $2,900,000,000. Wall Street had never priced a company on future users instead of earnings. Every dot-com listing that followed used the template. Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows for free. Netscape sold to AOL in 1999 and the browser disappeared. He co-founded Andreessen Horowitz in 2009 and now writes the checks. He proved a company could be worth billions before it made a dollar.

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  Vikas(Vik) Malpani| AI for US Real Estate (@vikasmalpani) reported 11 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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  Mayank Agrawal (@mayankagrawal) reported 13 minutes ago

  Should we need to pay for email? In 2006, AOL and Yahoo announced priority delivery for senders willing to pay somewhere around a penny per message, with the promise that those messages would bypass the spam filter. The diagnosis behind it was correct. Email often breaks because sending is free, and when volume costs nothing, volume becomes the strategy (hello AI outbound!). Everything built afterward (filters, blocklists, sender reputation scores) is an attempt to patch a problem that is fundamentally about economics, and not about technology. Today, the same dynamic plays out on a much larger surface. AI agents can complete forms, take surveys, open accounts, and browse sites at a scale that would have been unimaginable for a spam operation twenty years ago, and most of that activity still registers in company dashboards as ordinary human demand. What I find most encouraging about Proof of Human is that this doesn't require the previous tradeoff. There's no toll, no puzzle, and nothing for a genuine visitor to notice or solve, because verification runs continuously in the background across the whole session rather than at a single checkpoint. When a decision does get made, there's a record behind it that a team can actually inspect, rather than an opaque score they're asked to trust. The email industry spent two decades learning that you can't tax your way to trust, and that authentication works better than obstruction. That lesson is worth carrying into whatever comes next.

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  Ray Harris (@_RayHarris_) reported 14 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 18 What is "mixed tape"? Never used AOL...

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  John Evans (@Davvo111John) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AOL The AOL 'news' has become very right-wing. It used to be fairly unbiased but now it's as bad as GB News.

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  Patty (@pir8gold) reported 16 minutes ago

  Only 19.. Never had an AOL address, but do I get an extra point for using a slide rule???