AOL outages and service status in Alexandria, Minnesota

Problems in the last 24 hours in Alexandria, Minnesota

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  FuriaDiDonna (@furiadidonna) reported 5 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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  Jeff’s Retro Gaming (@RetroJeff83) reported 9 minutes ago

  Yep. Got in BIG trouble as a teen because we didn’t have internet at home so I grabbed a free AOL disc from Kmart then snuck a line from the phone block through ceiling into my bedroom and accidentally picked a non local access number and let it run at nights racking up huge bill

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  Brooklyn Fletch (@bklynfletchIV) reported 13 minutes ago

  @vivien2112 @GarlicRush 19. Never had an AOL email address. Believe i started with either yahoo or Netcom.

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  Ole G (@whymadoindis) reported 15 minutes ago

  @dotkrueger It's all dogshit IMO. It will tumble down and something else will take its place. This is AOL.

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  Eric Smith (@Eric_Smith08) reported 16 minutes ago

  20. Connected Account Vulnerability The Situation: Back in 2010, you finally made the jump from Yahoo, Hotmail, or AOL to Gmail. To make the transition easier, you linked your old legacy account to automatically forward everything into your new Gmail inbox. You haven't logged into that Yahoo account in a decade. The Mechanics: Legacy email platforms like Yahoo and AOL have notoriously outdated, porous spam filters compared to Google's billion-dollar machine learning infrastructure. By using POP3 or IMAP to pull that mail into Gmail, you are essentially bypassing Google's frontline defenses and piping raw, unfiltered internet sewage straight into your pristine Gmail ecosystem. The Fix: It is time to sever the cord. Go to Gmail Settings > Accounts and Import. Look under "Check mail from other accounts." Delete the legacy connections. If you absolutely still need access to that ancient Hotmail account for banking resets, log into it directly, aggressively clean it, and set up incredibly strict server-side rules there before allowing it anywhere near your primary hub.

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  FuriaDiDonna (@furiadidonna) reported 17 minutes ago

  @CurtisHouck “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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  Investor in chaos and shortages (@Toronto242M) reported 20 minutes ago

  You're judging AI the way people judged the internet during the dial-up era. AOL needed CDs to access the internet. It was noisy and slow. The Netscape browser was primitive. Broadband didn't exist. Yet nobody concluded the internet wasn't the future. If you weren't around in the early days of the internet, I suggest you research how it evolved. AI is in the same stage today. Capabilities will improve, costs will fall, and infrastructure will scale. Nobody quit the internet race because it was expensive. Nobody will quit the AI race either. In fact more particpants will enter. One day there will be an AI app that is a must have. Some kid is probably working on it his garage right now. @jeffbezos Look forward. $NVDA $MU $CRDO $MRVL

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  Crypto Update IO 🚀 (@cryptoupdate_io) reported 22 minutes ago

  @martinezjoke220 1998 internet was dial-up and AOL. 2025 crypto is 51% attacks and regulatory roulette. Wild west? More like a bad neighborhood.

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  Ulises Lima (@visceral_real) reported 26 minutes ago

  @C2thaL2thaIGG Not anymore, not after seeing the reaction of ñïggërs everywhere, **** them, I hope they aol get killed, I even prefer Jews over them now

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  Brian Cohen (@inthepixels) reported 26 minutes ago

  23. **Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (2008)** — Lost over $18.5 billion nominally, equivalent to over **$20.0 billion** today due to global credit declines and equity write-downs. 24. **Alcatel (2001)** — Suffered massive merger-related write-downs and market destruction during the telecom equipment collapse, crossing the **$20.0 billion** inflation-adjusted threshold. 25. **Swiss Re (2008)** — Incurred tens of billions in asset impairments and structured credit losses during the financial crisis, placing its real-loss event at the **$20.0 billion** inflation-adjusted mark. The Three Eras of Corporate Destruction What stands out is how concentrated these losses are. The Dot-Com and Telecom Collapse (2000–2002) The telecom bubble produced the single greatest concentration of corporate losses ever observed. AOL Time Warner, JDS Uniphase, Qwest, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Vivendi, Alcatel, and NTT all appear on the list. Trillions of dollars in market value evaporated as companies wrote down acquisitions, fiber networks, wireless licenses, and internet-related assets purchased at bubble-era valuations. The Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Credit Suisse, Swiss Re, and Mitsubishi UFJ all suffered enormous losses as mortgage securities, derivatives, and structured credit markets collapsed. Unlike many dot-com write-downs, these losses reflected real capital destruction that threatened the stability of the global financial system. Industry-Specific Collapses General Motors appears three separate times on the list, highlighting decades of structural challenges within the auto industry. United Airlines reflects the severe financial strain associated with bankruptcy and restructuring. Nakheel demonstrates how quickly even seemingly unstoppable real-estate booms can reverse. The Half-Trillion-Dollar Club The four largest losses alone account for nearly $470 billion in inflation-adjusted value destruction: * **AOL Time Warner (2002):** ~$143 billion * **AIG (2008):** ~$128 billion * **JDS Uniphase (2001):** ~$104 billion * **Fannie Mae (2009):** ~$94 billion Combined, these four annual losses destroyed more value than the current market capitalization of many of the world's largest public companies. The lesson from this ranking is simple: the biggest corporate losses rarely occur because a company has a bad quarter or even a bad year. They happen when an entire narrative breaks—whether it is internet mania, telecom euphoria, housing prices that supposedly never fall, or financial engineering that appears risk-free until suddenly it isn't.