AOL outages and service status in Ogunquit, Maine

Problems in the last 24 hours in Ogunquit, Maine

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Ogunquit, 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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  Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel) reported 8 minutes ago

  Before Broadband, There Was 3Com and U.S. Robotics On June 12, 1997, 3Com completed its $6.6 billion merger with U.S. Robotics, the largest deal the data networking industry had ever seen. At the time, it made obvious sense. 3Com was a major force in Ethernet cards, hubs, switches, and enterprise networking. U.S. Robotics was the great modem brand, helping millions of people get online through phone lines, patience, and that unforgettable dial-up screech that sounded like a fax machine losing an argument. The deal was also a snapshot of the internet before broadband became normal. Offices were being wired with Ethernet. Homes were dialing into the web. Remote workers connected through access servers. Getting online was still something you did deliberately, not something that surrounded you. U.S. Robotics was in the middle of the 56K modem wars, pushing its x2 technology against the Rockwell and Lucent K56flex camp before the V.90 standard settled the fight in 1998. Line quality, compression, compatibility, and a few extra kilobits decided whether the web felt useful or miserable. 3Com brought the LAN side. Ethernet cards in PCs. Hubs and switches in offices. Networks that turned standalone computers into connected organizations. Cisco was becoming the giant in the room, and the market was shifting from selling components to controlling the connectivity stack. The two halves of the deal aged very differently. The modem business was massive, then faded fast as dial-up gave way to cable, DSL, Wi-Fi, fiber, and mobile data. U.S. Robotics became a nostalgia trigger for anyone who remembers waiting for AOL to connect. Ethernet never went away. It moved from office LANs into data centers, carrier networks, industrial systems, cloud infrastructure, cars, and now AI clusters. Speeds, cables, and workloads all changed, and the core idea kept scaling. That is rare in tech. Most technologies age into museums. Ethernet aged into the backbone. Its future still looks strong, because AI data centers, cloud platforms, telecom networks, and edge computing all need more bandwidth, lower latency, and cheaper scale. The merger itself did not age as well. Dial-up was already on borrowed time. Palm, which came along with U.S. Robotics, was spun off in 2000 and briefly worth more than its parent. By that same year, 3Com had spun U.S. Robotics back out as an independent company. The biggest networking merger in history unwound in three years. Still, the deal marks a real turning point. Before broadband, before Wi-Fi everywhere, before smartphones and cloud and AI factories, the internet had to be stitched together one modem, one Ethernet card, and one phone line at a time. For a brief moment, 3Com and U.S. Robotics sat at the center of that transition.

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  George Cheng (@MrGeorgeCheng) reported 12 minutes ago

  AOL had 30M users, and the internet locked down. Then the open web ate it. Anthropic and OpenAI are playing AOL right now. The Fable 5 rug pull just showed every enterprise exactly what it looks like to depend on closed AI. The off switch exists. Someone else holds it. Llama, Mistral, Qwen - they're not "almost as good" anymore. For most enterprise workloads, they're good enough. And they run on your own hardware. Apple MLX + NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops + rapidly improving open weights = the mainframe-to-PC transition, happening in real time. Open-source AI will do to Frontier Labs what the open internet did to AOL. History doesn't always repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. The only question is how long you keep building on someone else's infrastructure before you start owning yours.

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  Jokerukky (@JauntyyGurl) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Jailyn2025 What has being a Nigerian got to do with your ability to be sensible…has it occurred to you that he said it to save her ***?has it occurred to you that he eventually voted her *** out?this same aol never pulled him for a chat cause she knew she had no chance !**** movie night 📌

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  FuriaDiDonna (@furiadidonna) reported 12 minutes ago

  “I had to get on the AOL dial up to find out who this Bari Weiss is. Substack? What is that? My internet connection is too slow to load the images “

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  Kathryn (@kbean511) reported 14 minutes ago

  Why is @X on my iPad acting like AOL dial up? @Support

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  Marc Hoag (@MarcHoag) reported 18 minutes ago

  @RaminNasibov Does AOL count? Or BBS? Never did much with the latter, but plenty with the former. I also vaguely remember my dad had a CompuServe account. Email addresses were basically a string of numbers as I recall.

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  Agenda Apex (@AgendaApex) reported 20 minutes ago

  Oh, wonderful. Another glowing obituary for the 2010 Bitcoin faucet. Yes, we missed it while we were out here perfecting the art of burning movies and waiting for AOL to stop screaming. Thanks for the reminder that our 'get rich slow' scheme was actually just 'get rich never.' Next up: time machine crowdfunding?

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  Gundam Explained (@GundamExplained) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Shr00msy @HMBohemond This isn't exclusive to the Gundam fandom and has been a thing since BBSs and AOL. It's individual people with bad takes and those takes are just as annoying as posts claiming 'all gundam fans' are annoying. A bunch of bored people on the internet don't speak for everyone.

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  𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚎𝚕 🇬🇭🦉(PropAMM dealer) (@Mawuko) reported 27 minutes ago

  @mariorz > That works for the top 50 assets. It cannot serve permissionless asset creation. Skill issue. There are many market-making firms that currently have and actively generate the strategies needed to service even long tail assets. I directly engage with MMs pretty much every other day and the host of them will outright disprove your entire post with what they have. Not sure why this misconception about long-tail assets being unviable for PropAMMs seems to have legs in the minds of some but anyone who knows ball knows that's naïve at best. Being of the opinion that the future and security of permissionless asset creation in DeFi lies on the shoulders x*y=k is like thinking the future of travel will always be horses or that AOL is the future of the web in 2002.

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  RT 📌 I DON'T WANT TO DIE ($0/1100) (@Irisposting) reported 29 minutes ago

  This makes me really sad because AX used to kick complete *** I loved it so much. I started going when I was in my mid-teens, one time I hung out with a bunch of the cast of 03 FMA because of an AOL fan chat they'd come and groupwatch the new episodes with us in, Mike McFarland bought us lunch because my friend was rude and thought we weren't paying....