AOL outages and service status in Glencoe, Minnesota

Problems in the last 24 hours in Glencoe, Minnesota

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Glencoe, 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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  Chris Farrell (@chrispfarrell) reported 21 seconds ago

  I think OpenAI and Anthropic might be the CompuServe and AOL of the AI era. Does anyone actually think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, X/Twitter, and all of the other big tech companies will just allow these 2 badly run startups to capture the AI market? OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat or sustainable competitive advantage. To win they have to not only develop a moat but penetrate some of the most fortified moats. Model quality isn't a moat. Kimi, Grok, Deepseek proved that. Inference will become a commodity utility that requires massive CapEx that neither can finance. Interface is where the moat is the weakest. OpenAI and Anthropic do not own the apps or the OS. The OS and apps are owned by parties who view OpenAI or Anthropic as threats, and they can complicate things very easily. As if that is not grim enough, AI sovereignty will become an issue. Consumers will want their iCloud data to stay in iCloud, their OneDrive data to stay in OneDrive, etc. Enterprise customers will want AI from their cloud providers to reduce egress and for performance + IP reasons. It is honestly hard to imagine a world where OpenAI and Anthropic survive as they are. They will either morph into companies with entirely different value offerings or die like Compuserve and AOL.

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  On Orbit Satellite 📻 (@KM4OOS_EM71) reported 33 seconds ago

  AOL Instant Messenger never needed a data center. I fail to see your point. Can I host a social media server? I fail to see your point.

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  Black Boomer (@MilennialBoom) reported 2 minutes ago

  @MFruitninja @Motheo37001950 I’ve been on the internet since I was 12/13. AOL Teen Chat, etc being an only child I wanted connect with my peers at home. It was very wholesome for me. Never engaged with anyone other than my age mates.

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  Spaulding T. Bear (@spauldingtbear) reported 3 minutes ago

  @oelma__ Nope. Not really. I remember when yahoo and msn came along. I had AOL at 2.0. (Can't remember the name of the service before them, but it only lasted 2 hours and cost too much to keep going.)

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  Nardz Blanco (@NBlanco25583) reported 11 minutes ago

  If anyone is claiming to be my woman in another place, they are just lying because.. No... I never do long distance relationships.. That's been a rule for me since AOL messenger...

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  Coach George (@CoachGeorgeCRA) reported 11 minutes ago

  @CryptoEmpressX Ok. Can't remember if login was from Yahoo or AOL

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  Abby_NormaL (@AbbyNormaL131) reported 14 minutes ago

  @BuzzPatterson Don't ever try and cancel it! It's worse than trying to cancel your AOL account!! We had to lock the card we used because even tho we cancelled it, and they confirmed it... They still kept trying to charge us

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  😷💉☮️ 🇺🇸 (@Granjacke901) reported 15 minutes ago

  @oelma__ You forgot @aol…I still use it. Service providers ask for my email, and then laugh about it.

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  ✨Megs✨🔮🐓 (@notastrwbrysng2) reported 19 minutes ago

  @sugarllouis I'm not old... But not young.. but I ******* hate AI and istg the world is getting dumber by the second. Nobody has to use their brains for anything anymore and they create the dumbest **** ever. AI reminds me of annoying *** chain email forwarders back during AOL days. Like STOP

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 19 minutes ago

  Researchers tracked 344,753 websites over 18 months to map where American attention actually goes online. The answer is email. Gmail alone is 16% of all desktop time. Add Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL, and inboxes eat nearly a quarter of every hour Americans spend at a computer. That's double the combined total of Facebook, X, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and WhatsApp. The legacy numbers are the wild part. Yahoo Mail, at 3.71%, gets more attention than ChatGPT, Reddit, and Netflix combined. AOL Mail, a service most people assume died with dial-up, beats Instagram and Discord combined. Yahoo still has roughly 225 million active mail users, skewing Gen X and Boomer: people who opened an account in 1999 and never saw a reason to leave. Google Search sits at just 2.33%. The front door of the entire internet gets less time than Yahoo's inbox, because search is engineered to end fast. Every second you spend on a results page is a second Google failed. The chart measures desktop, which explains the shape. Your phone is where you play. Your computer is where you work. And the work of being an American in 2026, the bills, the receipts, the school notices, the job applications, still runs through a protocol invented in 1971. Strip away 30 years of apps and the desktop internet is a post office with better graphics.