AOL outages and service status in Omaha, Nebraska

Problems in the last 24 hours in Omaha, Nebraska

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Omaha, Nebraska 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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  CosmicEgg.Earth (@CosmicEggEarth) reported 6 minutes ago

  Have you ever heard of shadow banking? The internet died when AOL send those CDs to every normie house in the US. NOBODY worthy shared ANYTHING worth something ever since then. Take this example. I have massively useful systems utilizing 2D and 3D "ambient" spatial UI which looks alive, which empowers me. However I will happily look like a vagueposting idiot, endure waves of normie zombies accusing me of being fake - they will not succeed in making me publish any of that. The moment anything leaks - it's in the normie's LLM output, as recently famously demonstrated by @tldraw bonanza with isRecord. @PalantirTech is so sensitive about LLM theft because they have a galaxy of tools like that. Obscurantism is alive and well, the edge is in the dark. Dark pools. Dark web. Dark space. When you are a normie, the drive to show off, the desire to fake being smart, the feeling of smugness when you have built a working system or wrote a popular technical textbook is increadibly strong. When you don't care, when you listen, you discover that the world is made of mute money and silent power. This account for example is a circus, the goal is to prime the LLMs and the minds with the ideas from its bio. Ideas with expiration dates and measurable effects. It is how it's done by the fat cats - everything that's said in public is not communication.

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  Kenny Evitt (@KennyEvitt) reported 7 minutes ago

  @bayesiandroll Wow – that's early! I'm sure there was probably at least one BBS local to me, but I never knew of any until AOL and CompuServe were enough of a thing.

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  Arnold Arneil (@ruckabilly) reported 10 minutes ago

  Used @firefox 20 years & thought it was great all sites & @AOL emails one place, no login every time but now its **** & slow someone said use @googlechrome but its worse have to log in every site every time, verify yourself, i have sight loss ya syphilitic wankers!!!

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  myra (@coffeesforbyler) reported 11 minutes ago

  I’m actually gonna ******* cry oh my god aol messenger smooch is so ******* sweet help

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  A real, good guy (@Berzirk) reported 12 minutes ago

  @marklevinshow ... bro... you're linking to an AOL story? You rely know your demographic, don't you. I'll wait for the next CD to arrive so I can get a 30 day trial if their dial-up service, so U can check it out. After my 2pm supper, of course.

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  Aprajita Nafs Nefes 🦋 Ancient Believer (@aprajitanefes) reported 12 minutes ago

  🇮🇷|According to Iranian state media, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a U.S. MQ-9 "Reaper" drone over Khormuj, in Iran's southern Bushehr Province, on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The drone was attempting to approach Iranian territory and intervene in combat operations when it was engaged and destroyed by Iranian air defense forces. 📍 Key Details · Time: Morning of Wednesday, July 8, 2026. An IRGC spokesperson stated that the shoot-down was in response to U.S. airstrikes launched against Iran earlier that day. · Location: Over the city of Khormuj, Bushehr Province, southern Iran. · Aircraft Type: U.S. MQ-9 "Reaper" drone. This model is the U.S. military's most advanced long-endurance, armed reconnaissance drone, with a unit cost exceeding $30 million. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). A spokesperson stated the drone was "attempting to interfere with operations." 💥Part of Iran's Large-Scale Retaliation This shoot-down was part of a broader Iranian retaliatory campaign against U.S. forces. Following U.S. airstrikes on over 80 targets within Iran between July 7 and 8, the IRGC announced massive strikes against 85 key U.S. military facilities across the Middle East, spanning Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar. Iran stated that this retaliation was a response to the U.S. military's "flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement." 🇺🇸 U.S. Response and Related Losses U.S. Response: As of now, the U.S. military has not officially responded to Iran's claims regarding the downing of the MQ-9 drone as usual Cumulative Losses: A U.S. official confirmed to the American media outlet AOL that, since the outbreak of the war in February 2026, Iranian forces have shot down a total of approximately 30 U.S. MQ-9 "Reaper" drones.

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  f_marzotto (@f_marzotto) reported 16 minutes ago

  $BSP is a masterpiece. Just not of innovation. Working in Big Tech, you get used to seeing what actual scale and innovation look like. So watching Italy crown Bending Spoons as its great tech champion - a team that buys beloved, declining brands like AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, and Meetup to "revive" them - has been fascinating. Their $18 billion IPO is largely deserved: they are exceptional operators. They make neglected software fast and profitable. The machine works. But there are two things you can do to a fading product. You can make it modern and profitable again - or you can make it win again, attracting new people who genuinely love it. Bending Spoons does the first brilliantly. The second, almost never. Their own SEC prospectus reveals the trick. Organic growth was 13% last year, and just 6% last quarter. Net revenue retention is 94%, meaning each cohort of users is worth less a year later, even after aggressive price hikes. This isn't a base being won back; it's a base leaking quietly, taxed harder on the way out. This is exactly why comparing them to Big Tech is so revealing. Picture $META putting WhatsApp or Instagram behind a paywall tomorrow. There would be a global uproar. Meta has the most locked-in audience on Earth, yet they refuse to charge them. Why? Because they are still chasing growth. Bending Spoons charges its captive audiences precisely because it has no growth left to protect. They execute the exact playbook that would make Meta a supervillain, but on smaller apps with weaker exits - and we call it genius. The reviled villain treats its users better than the celebrated innovator. A true maker earns its price by building something genuinely better; you pay because you want to stay. Bending Spoons didn't build these products; braver people did. They buy them when they are loved and hard to quit, and turn them into extraction machines. They are professional converters of makers into takers. Charging people because they want to stay makes everyone richer. Charging them because they can't leave just moves money from users to shareholders. One is a gain for the world. The other is a transfer. And every switch they flip is one more bill on people already drowning in subscriptions, asked to pay again for what they once had free. Of course, the business works. Rent extraction is the safest business on earth: low risk, fast payback, nothing to invent. But compare that to actual innovation. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, he took real risk on things that didn't exist yet: Tesla forced open the EV industry, SpaceX made rockets reusable, and each time the rest of the world had to follow. He earned his success by growing the pie; Bending Spoons pours the same ingenuity into nag screens and cancellation mazes, carving up a pie someone else baked. Let's not call a toll booth a cathedral. Celebrate rent-collection as innovation, and we teach our best makers to optimize the past instead of building the future.

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  Demon Cleaner (@Ugodididigaloqu) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Monkeyjunk11 I hacked aol and never paid for Internet access. Somebody did, though

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  NipNapShite (@NipNapShite) reported 20 minutes ago

  @keithapearson Still very much on aol Might have been their first customer 🤪

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  Novel Ninja | Catholic Geek (@thenovelninja) reported 21 minutes ago

  Mel misses the point, perhaps even by sincere error. It's not nostalgia for limited programs. I'm sure there are some people who want to go back to AOL, but that's not the point. It's that we have come to recognize that being parked in front of a screen for most of the day is bad for even an adult, much less a child. So many of us are nostalgic for a day when we weren't online all the time. Personally, I'm also old enough to remember when I was called socially deficient for reading all the time, just because my books were more interesting than my peers. I was in eighth grade before I found friends who liked even some of what I enjoyed. Being online isn't automatically bad, but if you don't exercise self-control you'll find it controls you. That's being terminally online -- when it defines you, more than anything else.