AOL outages and service status in Machias, Maine

Problems in the last 24 hours in Machias, Maine

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Machias, Maine 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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  At the speed in which they... (@LumpySpaceTaco) reported 6 minutes ago

  @OrevaZSN Internet back in the 90s: Here's 100 AOL CD's you didn't ask for that give you a large amount of connection time for free AI now: I only speak to people who pay for tokens. But here is 1 token use it wisely you ***** *spits in poor peoples face*

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  Tamara Bennington (@TamaraBenningto) reported 8 minutes ago

  @AOLSupportHelp @AOL Your whole email system was down & you finally got it fixed!

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  Reboticon (@Reboticant) reported 9 minutes ago

  @icpolicy @kitten_beloved @WomanCorn man its like aol in the old days I would get myself into a lot of trouble

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  SID | Degen (@SidDegen) reported 14 minutes ago

  i don't buy the "ai search replaces Google" thesis. the data says the opposite is happening. Cloudflare Radar, may 2026: every ai chatbot — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity — sends 0.29% of global search referrals. Google sends 87.63%. 301-to-1. Anthropic's ClaudeBot crawls 11,122 pages for every human visit it returns vs Google's 5:1. Alphabet Q1 2026 filing: Google search revenue $60.4B, +19% yoy, up from +17% in Q4. ai overviews hit 2.5B monthly users; ai mode crossed 1B. alphabet says ai overviews monetize at rates "similar to traditional search" (june 2026 investor presentation). the kill-google thesis is showing up as negative signal in the actual p&l. Perplexity — the consensus poster child — killed its entire ad business in feb (Financial Times, The Verge). ads generated $20K against $34M revenue. exec quote: "a user would just start doubting everything." a company that can't make advertising work cannot disrupt a $60B/quarter advertising business. the consensus pusher worth countering specifically — @sarahdingwang at a16z, who led Exa's $250M Series C at $2.2B in may. her line: "agents will search the web more than humans this year. soon orders of magnitudes more." historical analog — Netscape 1994-98. the next platform that would reduce windows to "a poorly debugged set of device drivers." 80% share, record ipo. microsoft bundled IE for free. netscape sold to AOL for scrap. the company that captured the value was the one everyone thought netscape would displace — Google, founded 1998 — the services layer above the commodity. counter-position: ai search isn't replacing Google. Google is becoming ai search. standalone players are fighting netscape's war while the incumbent absorbs the tech into a surface 2.5B people already use. investor read: Exa at $2.2B and Perplexity at $22B are priced for a market-share takeover the referral data says isn't happening. the smarter bet is the layer that monetizes the ai-overview expansion Google is driving.

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  Scott Friedman 🎟️ (@ScottFriedman3) reported 15 minutes ago

  @clemsontyger04 @FIFAWorldCup It sucks man. It’s like going back to dial up and signing on AOL in 1998

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  Nicole (@statuescrumbled) reported 16 minutes ago

  @BrianEntin Happy to have you in Loudoun. We were also told these awful buildings would only be up for ten years. The reason the built them here was bc of the original AOL infrastructure which never made any sense to me and is now clearly a lie. They have RUINED our beautiful county.

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  ***** and Bases (@BallsAndBases) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ThrillaRilla369 Mine was @aol. Damn I'm old

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  deputydog357 (@deputydogblitzn) reported 22 minutes ago

  @FOX13News Technology and computers have always led to fraud, the dark web has been around since the AOL days, unfortunately the govt keeps adding more technology to everything for the surveillance state, they will never stop it

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  Seraphine Vale (@seraphine_vale) reported 31 minutes ago

  @RichSilver Slow. It reminds me of aol. Which reminds me of highschool. Which is worse. (Though…I must say not having to pay bills was nice)

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  The Tall Traveler (@TallTraveler1) reported 31 minutes ago

  AOL sports and music message boards was my ****