AOL outages and service status in Duluth, Minnesota

Problems in the last 24 hours in Duluth, Minnesota

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Duluth, 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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  James Driver (@pawpawchief) reported 5 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19. Never had an AOL address.

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  Pulse of Positivity (@willdbill73) reported 5 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19 never had AOL

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  andrew engler (@aerockrose) reported 6 minutes ago

  Robert Johnson explains the exit-timing test behind selling BET to Viacom. BET had gone public in 1991 as "the first African American company publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange." Then Johnson and John Malone "bought the company back private in '98." The question became: "How do we continue to grow it and at the same time create an exit strategy for Liberty Media?" Then the market gave him a signal. "AOL merged with Time Warner." "That was sort of the highest valuation for media companies you'd ever see in a long time." When Sumner Redstone called, Johnson's first answer was not yes. "I don't think it's for sale." "Maybe we'd like you as a partner." "But I'm not ready to sell." He sold only after the control terms protected the asset. "If they wanted me to stay at the company for the five years I was going to sign the contract, it had to be independent." "I would only report to Sumner or Mel." When I look at a sale, this is the part I care about. The high valuation matters, but the better question is whether the buyer, timing, and control terms protect what made the asset valuable. - Robert Johnson on FoundationINTERVIEWS

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  sean (@usrbinsean) reported 10 minutes ago

  @BrianRoemmele It was quite the revelation I could finally take those free AOL floppies from deep storage and use them for Linux boot disks instead. From a time when I would literally have a disk get bad sectors going from drive to drive while never leaving my hand, they were really well made.

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  7% NaCl (Salty) (@TwoRulesOfWar) reported 13 minutes ago

  @NE_CoastalQueen Seriously. Between AOL chat and the Xbox lobbies, there is no finer generation at talking ****.

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  MF Doomscroll (@a_trash_cant) reported 16 minutes ago

  I should have known I’d never remember to cancel free trials by the way my *** hoarded AOL free trial cds of varying hours in the days of dial up. I taught myself loopholes, not responsibility.

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  Will (@Will84877701) reported 16 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19, never had AOl address

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  Ugam Kamat (@ugamkamat) reported 19 minutes ago

  Before the AI kings, there was another king. His story tells you exactly how AI race ends. In the 90s, AOL was the internet. If you wanted to go online, you went through AOL. Their CDs were in every mailbox in America. At their peak they were worth more than Disney, Ford and Boeing combined. They even bought Time Warner, the biggest media empire on earth, like it was a snack. Then the internet became a utility. It moved to the companies holding the infra, the telecom guys. And AOL's birthright on the internet vanished. The pipe owners made real money, AT&T still makes billions every year, but at utility margins. The crazy money showed up at the application layer in the next decade. Google, Amazon, Netflix. They didn't own the internet. They just paid for it like everyone else and built the best service on top. The bottom layer was open to anyone at a price, so the top layer went to whoever served the customer best. No birthright. Just service. Now let's look at AI. Today the frontier labs stand where AOL stood in the late 90s. They own the models, they own the access, they are the most valuable companies of this era. But intelligence is already becoming a utility with open weights. The model is turning into the pipe, and the pipe will move to whoever hosts it cheapest. Better chips, cheaper power, data centers next to geothermal plants or up in orbit. Good business, real money, but utility margins. And again, the crazy money will show up one layer above, again. Apps built on open intelligence, paying for it like everyone pays for internet, winning because they serve the customer best. Nobody has a birthright there. Not even the labs. They can compete for it, with everyone else at a level playing field. The internet made AOL the king and then made the internet free. AI is about to do the same thing to its kings.

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  VG Frogman (@frogpitgaming) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Gzalzi @chaakravue I have been on the internet since AOL. That was not rage bait. He genuinely is just an idiot.

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  Humble Student ⚔️ (@jaysinjailagain) reported 23 minutes ago

  @OddStats Nightmarish. I was lucky enough to be sent to a private school and I remember kids just not coming back the following year. They’d tell me on aol instant messenger that their families couldn’t afford it, they were moving, etc… The son of a family friend worked in tech as a twenty something in the late 90’s. I remember he was driving that BMW z3 they had in the Bond movies. Always had expensive clothes, etc…moved back in with his parents. Of course as a kid I had no idea what was going on around me but to endure that as an adult must’ve been reality warping. It explains so much of the positioning around this AI hype. Everyone who endured the dotcom has clearly vowed to never see it again.