AOL outages and service status in Somerset, New Jersey

Problems in the last 24 hours in Somerset, New Jersey

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Somerset, New Jersey 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 Near Somerset, New Jersey

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Somerset and nearby locations:

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  Bill B (@Bill_B10) reported 37 minutes ago from Finderne, New Jersey

  @EmilBrunner1 1 point. Never AOL. I do have a 4 character Hotmail address...

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Business Nerd (@Business_Nerd_) reported 3 minutes ago

  Marc Andreessen on the exact moment the Internet changed forever: "There are two Internets," Marc explains. "There's the Internet that existed before 1993 and the Internet that existed after 1993." Before 1993, the Internet was funded by the National Science Foundation as an academic and research network. Commercial activity was strictly prohibited under what was called the acceptable use policy. The result was something the people who lived through it still describe in utopian terms. @pmarca describes it like this: "People who were on the Internet before 1993 often describe it in utopian terms because it literally was like you take the whatever million smartest people in the world and you put them on a network together with like no commercial activity, no advertising, no nothing, just the million smartest people in the world. And you just like let them talk to each other. And it's just like amazing." He singles out Usenet, the old messaging system, as the centerpiece of that world: "The discussions on Usenet were just like absolutely spectacular… It was like the most pure, clean intellectual, like vibrant space sense, like, I don't know, Athens in 500 BC. It was just like this amazing phenomenon." Then AOL connected. In September 1993, AOL plugged its million or two million subscribers. Normal people into the Internet for the first time. That moment got a name: eternal September. It was the day the Internet stopped being an ivory tower and became a mainstream consumer thing. The "eternal" part is its own joke. Marc explains: "Concept of eternal September literally was, it was like when every new wave of college graduates graduated and got their first job and then went online. So September is when the new crop of Internet users showed up… So the September effect didn't just happen once. It like happened over and over and over and over and over again. And every cycle of Internet user would basically be like, oh my God, this is great. But like, it's all going to get ruined in September." The Internet we live in today is the result of roughly 30 of those Septembers stacked on top of each other. Marc is careful to say he's pro that shift. He was on the side of opening it up, allowing commerce, allowing advertising, connecting everyone. But he doesn't pretend the trade-off wasn't real. You can't take a network of the smartest million people on earth, connect it to everyone, and expect the texture of the conversation to survive. The lesson sits underneath the story. Every great network has a pre-commercial phase that the early users remember as paradise, and a post-commercial phase that actually changes the world. Both are real. You don't get the second without giving up the first.

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  RunningScared2 (@RScared2) reported 3 minutes ago

  @mama_gforce AOL - it was comforting to know that somewhere on the other side of the world, someone else was hearing the exact same busy signal the same time you were

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  Ehsan (@acadictive) reported 3 minutes ago

  9 big companies that had millions of users and collapsed: 1. Netscape 2. Myspace 3. BlackBerry 4. Nokia 5. Kodak 6. AOL 7. FTX 8. Yahoo 9. Celsius Network 10. ___?

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  一切看淡 (@Jasonliangnx) reported 5 minutes ago

  @cryptogle I have always firmly believed that those who looked down on the AOL team—calling them scammers—will regret it for the rest of their lives.

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  Richard Lawson (@Ole_richie_rich) reported 7 minutes ago

  Cartoon Network games and AOL chat rooms

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  Jackson Behre (@TheGreenBehren) reported 14 minutes ago

  1. Who ******** reads AOL, boomer 2. Why does AIPAC always curse the honorable Kennedy family 3. Building codes are not “rogue” it’s due process, a key element of civilized society

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  🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 (@agtprpnabsrdty) reported 18 minutes ago

  Different decade, same math: half the S&P 500 is priced at levels that a dot-com CEO called proof of investor insanity while watching his company crater 90%. The rotation at the top: In early 2000, the ten most valuable S&P 500 companies read like a monument to permanent dominance: Microsoft, General Electric, Cisco, Walmart, ExxonMobil, Intel, Lucent, IBM, Citigroup, AOL. A generation later, only Microsoft remains. GE was carved into three separate companies. Lucent was absorbed by Nokia. AOL became the cautionary tale attached to the worst merger in corporate history. Cisco and Intel spent 25 years climbing back to their dot-com peaks. Citigroup, IBM, Walmart, and ExxonMobil still exist, but none crack the top ten. The new top ten is Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and the AI infrastructure complex. Investors in 2000 were also certain they were buying the future's permanent giants. The data says most of today's winners won't be in the top ten a generation from now either, and there is no mechanism by which you find out which ones survive in advance. The valuation problem: In 2002, after Sun Microsystems collapsed 90%, CEO Scott McNealy explained to investors exactly what a 10x sales multiple actually demands: 100% of revenues paid as dividends for ten consecutive years, with zero costs, zero R&D, zero taxes, and zero employees. He was describing the math of the price investors had paid for his stock as a form of collective psychosis. Today, 51% of the S&P 500 by market cap trades above 10x sales. Half the index. The AI narrative is functioning as the dot-com narrative functioned: a story compelling enough to make the math feel optional. The math has never been optional.

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  TSLA Since 2019 (@TSLASince2019) reported 18 minutes ago

  @StockMKTNewz Who is still using AOL? Free email service?

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  At The Table with Deirdre Lester (@JaneWallStreet) reported 20 minutes ago

  Erika talks to @GanunLester about leadership and the learning lessons she has taken from big places like Microsoft, Yahoo & AOL, but also smaller shops like Barstool and Food52. Erika is a builder. She "wants to be pushing things and finding new frontiers". "So my advice to anybody in leadership is like: One, you just have to be exceedingly generous. Two, there should be no job beneath you. Three is like you're gonna take an inordinate amount of ****, whether you did something right or did something wrong or not." Being a leader means you are on the front lines of suffering and adversity. Embrace it and dig deep.

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  Don Fotsch 🌵🇺🇸 (@fotsch1) reported 22 minutes ago

  @munster_gene 1) the kids stuff is great for Brand 2) it’s too complicated 3) designed by “experts” (w/ any kids?) 4) it won’t get used much How do we know all this? We learned it all with AOL Parental Controls; was a KEY reason parents chose AOL; kids were the ones who knew it best (shutting it off); overall, minimal usage. anyone with kids, smiles at #2 above, in particular — engr, father of six, decade at Apple, five at AOL p.s. We will never see any stats on Apple/iPhone “kid safety” usage, due to points above; they’ll just keep taking about how they work with “experts”, who ironically, often have few or no, children.