AOL outages and service status in Niles, Michigan

Problems in the last 24 hours in Niles, Michigan

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AOL Issues Reports Near Niles, Michigan

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Niles and nearby locations:

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  Kara Babinec (@Kara_Gabrielle) reported 22 minutes ago from South Bend, Indiana

  Ed’s Grandma kept telling us that she was going to call AOL and get them to fix her desktop computer. She says she’s called them and they’ve helped her before. #what

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Roger Ledbetter (@rledbetterCPA) reported 3 minutes ago

  You want 90s purchasing power but aren’t ready for the trade offs - - Tupac and Biggie releasing albums - Metallica and grunge peaking - Jordan in his prime - AOL instant messenger and no cell phones - Blockbuster video rentals Okay damn nevermind

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  JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported 8 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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  Blue Collar Brandon (@RealBlueCollarB) reported 8 minutes ago

  @wongfeihungdong @DHSgov I'm not sure if its still abbreviated this way, we used to just type "s2s" for sucks to sucks. AOL and ICQ days.

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  Shmuel Londner 🇮🇱 (@ShmuelLon) reported 9 minutes ago

  Something about $BSP: they bought AOL at a 5x income before tax, which is optically cheap right? The small issue is that they bought it from Apollo and imho there's zero chance Apollo got a bad deal

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  dorked_web (@dorked_web) reported 9 minutes ago

  It really is true that if you go on here just to hang out and have fun with people all over the internet, it's almost possible to get a little taste of like early-2000's forums and stuff (or for some, maybe AOL chat rooms). I long for the day I can nuke my other account.

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  Rakesh Agrawal (@RakeshSFNYC) reported 10 minutes ago

  Mapquest holding line on Lake Ontario. I agree, but no doubt it is just a marketing stunt to remind us they exist. I was at AOL when Google Maps launched. The head of Mapquest would send out emails every time they launched a feature saying people would never use Google.

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  VoodooX-Rocket (@VoodooXRocket) reported 13 minutes ago

  @boostmobile Boost Mobile reminds me so much of the 1990's AOL. Their customer service makes it one of the worst MVNO carriers today! Their creative accounting is so hard for their reps to understand, so how is a customer going to?

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  Aüd! 🎡 #SWAG (@lyfeisgood111) reported 16 minutes ago

  I guess I’m just some guy that poke around because I don’t know Yeahhhh ion know **** but I knew exactly who to ask for and look for… Just like Ben laden How ah ***** knowing but he didn’t know nun… CIA thankfully I gee up on AOL ppl duck and hide and still get found!

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  Herman, NXT social media legend (@herman_segle) reported 19 minutes ago

  @joshbmessenger @Ace109610 WWE Network would always crash, buffer and many times the picture looked like it was video being played on a dialup server like AOL.

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  DJ Richards (@stumblebum54) reported 20 minutes ago

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