AOL outages and service status in Utica, New York

Problems in the last 24 hours in Utica, New York

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Utica, New York 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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  Anthony D’Elia (@SledgeFeather) reported 11 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Mapquest so I need @AOL to use your service

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  JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported 12 minutes ago

  @RWMaloneMD #HistoryMatters - seeing your uninformed Virgina rant on #DateCenters thought I might give you something to reflect upon: AOL started in Northern Virginia. It began in 1985 in Vienna as Quantum Computer Services, became America Online, and in 1996 moved its headquarters to Dulles/Ashburn in Loudoun County. Around the same time, UUNet/WorldCom was nearby. Those companies pulled in fiber and built early server facilities. Even more important was MAE-East (Metropolitan Area Exchange–East), one of the first big internet exchange points. It started in Fairfax County / Tysons around 1992 and later moved to Loudoun to sit closer to AOL and the other networks. At one point a huge share of U.S. internet traffic passed through it. Once networks had to meet there to exchange traffic, everyone else followed. Equinix built early Ashburn facilities for that reason. After the dot-com bust, AOL faded, but it left behind unused “dark fiber,” empty buildings, and a dense interconnection hub. Local officials later marketed that leftover infrastructure to data-center developers. AOL’s old campus itself has been torn down or converted into more data centers. Why it kept growing after AOL The cluster stuck because of a pile-on of advantages: Fiber density and low latency. Once the exchanges and carriers were there, it became the cheapest, fastest place to interconnect. A commonly cited figure is that a large share of global internet traffic still touches Loudoun. Proximity to Washington. Federal agencies, defense contractors, and intelligence work created early demand for secure computing nearby. Power and land. Dominion Energy power was relatively cheap and available. Eastern Loudoun still had large industrial parcels near Dulles when the boom started. Tax policy. Virginia added a sales-and-use tax exemption on data-center equipment (servers, generators, cooling, etc.) around 2008–2010. That became one of the state’s biggest economic-development incentives and made Virginia hard to beat on cost. Network effects. Each new data center made the next one more valuable, because customers want to be next to other networks, clouds, and content providers. So: AOL and MAE-East planted the flag in the 1990s. Cheap power, leftover fiber, DC proximity, and later tax breaks turned a local internet hub into the world’s largest data-center market. Ashburn/Loudoun is still the core; growth has since spilled into Prince William and other Virginia counties as land and power in the original alley got scarce.

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  Crowsky📎 (@Crowsky13) reported 15 minutes ago

  @IzzatStatus The subscription model has been coming for years tbh. Remember how AOL stayed in business simply because so many people never canceled? Combined with the full erosion of ToS contracts, consumers are getting the shaft big time

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  Ragh Pandragon (@RaghPandragon) reported 16 minutes ago

  The truth is stranger. Long ago in the 90's there was still magic in the world every time you wanted to get on the internet you had to electrocute one fairy. Just one. Unfortunately disconnects were an issue. Slowly, one connection at a time, we fed all of the magic creatures into the gaping maw of oblivion to power our ICQ chats and AOL instant messengers. At least until Human Energy Update 3.9 Service Pack 2. Now every time you log in you just lose a little bit of your own soul, no fairy deaths required.

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  Jared (@NoMarginGuy) reported 16 minutes ago

  @SinaiLawFirm Just remember.. this is the worst these AI tools will be. We are in the AOL phase of internet development.

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  alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@alex) reported 16 minutes ago

  when i first worked for a big co (TC was part of AOL at the time, IIRC) I spilled a drink on my laptop and bricked it really thought i was going to get fired (I was young) and was blown away when the co was like well ****, is a new one by tomorrow fast enough?

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  Miss EsqHire (@MissEsqHire) reported 21 minutes ago

  My candidate at a small, no-name firm is about to turn down an offer from an international law firm because they use Harvey and his current firm uses Claude. Apparently he cannot live without Claude. Can someone explain the difference to me like I’m my mom in the ’90s discovering AOL? Any arguments for Harvey that I can retort with?

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  Herman, NXT social media legend (@herman_segle) reported 25 minutes ago

  @joshbmessenger @Ace109610 WWE Network would always crash, buffer and many times the picture looked like it was video being played on a dialup server like AOL.

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  Davo (@RegisLeDavo) reported 27 minutes ago

  Need wee Phillie back down the AoL til the window shuts because I need to know what ******** is actually happening in the building

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  Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) reported 29 minutes ago

  My Aunt Jane has had the same AOL email address since 1997 and is using ChatGPT to help her redesign her kitchen.