AOL outages and service status in Southfield, Michigan

Problems in the last 24 hours in Southfield, Michigan

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Southfield, Michigan 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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  Kite Lake Studio (@KiteLakeStudio) reported 20 seconds ago

  @Based_SpaceGoji Fun fact from the prehistory of the web: In the summer of 1993, when this movie came out, there were no web browsers. (Using AOL was nothing like surfing the web a few years later.) So there was no easy way to go online and look something up, and resolve a disagreement. For example... I knew at least two kids at my high school who were SURE those were pterodactyls flying away at the end. I was like, "Dude, they were pelicans. Why would the heroes be calmly watching and smiling at dinosaurs escaping the f---ing island?" But there was no way to convince them. No way to just go on a website and look it up, and show them. The fact is, before everyone had easy access to the web, life was full of really stupid little disagreements like that, especially when you were a kid. Did the kid from the Life Cereal commercials die from eating pop-rocks with Coke? Did Alfonso Ribeiro break his neck doing a headspin? For me, at least, those pelicans at the end of Jurassic Park were the last example of that particular kind of stupid argument. A year later, Netscape launched. One more thing... I always wondered if Spielberg heard stories of people mistaking those pelicans for pterodactyls, and was annoyed by it. Especially when I saw the sequel, and it ends with what is very, very clearly a pterodactyl spreading its wings in the sunlight. As if Spielberg was saying, "Here, dumbasses, THAT's a pterodactyl."

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  Christopher Gonzalez (@Hammerdog416) reported 2 minutes ago

  @theamelia___ I never had an aol account.

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  William Parker (@wmprkr) reported 2 minutes ago

  @0xpwnie I think I was in 5th grade. Having internet in your house was still a rare thing and it was dial-up if it was. America Online. Everyone I knew used AOL discs as coasters for their Coca-Cola or whatever they drank. First computer was a Macintosh Performa 475. The webs speed was garbage back then, but we didn't have anything to compare it to. Social media wasn't a thing, it was forums and IRC. But man every single website was an amazing journey into a different realm. They called it the Summer that never ended, and boy lemme tell ya if you were there at that time, you'd give up all this fast web **** for a stroll down memory lane in a heartbeat.

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  Mickey (@MickeyMcMurray) reported 4 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 I never had an AOL address, but yes to the rest...

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  W.R. Schock, QBD (@iontecs_pemf) reported 5 minutes ago

  @eyecewe @hthieblot It was a masterpiece. AOL, spawn of hell, bought out Netscape in 1998 & deliberately destroyed it trying to force people back to hell. Worst decision in internet history.

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  Mayank Agrawal (@mayankagrawal) reported 8 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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  Siddharth (@sambharia) reported 14 minutes ago

  when the internet was still new, AOL (largeest web client & dial-up service) didn't let its users access the internet. Prodigy, a competitor, was the first to allow its users access to the internet. this looks similar to how frontier labs is trying to lock the harness with the model.

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  Darken Duchess (@DarkenDuchess) reported 14 minutes ago

  @DisrespectedThe I ask quite a few people about how they feel about all social media platforms and when I ask about X they tend to stop, blank stare and say. “ oh people are just too mean over there” 👀 I don’t know how long you’ve been on the Internet, but I went through the age of AOL and yahoo chat rooms. And this is what you guys settle on what’s called mean ? I ask them to explain what they mean by that and they start rattling off a bunch of stuff that happens on every platform. So never ends with a real answer or discussion. Because they feel they can’t be bothered with it. What’s your take?

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  Inside Agitator (@AbsolutelyMalc1) reported 14 minutes ago

  @spencerpratt you don't know **** about business, Hollywood, or history. you're comparing apples and oranges. ALL the guilds oppose the merger. WHY IS THAT? mergers mean less projects, less competition, lower wages (and you somehow missed AOL acquiring Time Warner (and WB) in 2000

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  Gregory Pozzo (@GregoryPozzo) reported 15 minutes ago

  @MikePeyton55 @honeymoon250 I never did AOL. I'm only 46, but I'm not too young for it. I just never used it. I never had a waterbed, but I have slept on one before. I had no idea that they still existed, though!