AOL outages and service status in West Islip, New York

Problems in the last 24 hours in West Islip, New York

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in West Islip and nearby locations:

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  Tom Brennan (@ThomasB55220799) reported 37 minutes ago from Central Islip, New York

  @CatLover56577 19. Never had AOL address

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  LKA (@katiwa_4) reported 7 minutes ago

  Someone decided the Adams Arcade lights are not working… with Ngong road matatus flying like they have no breaks … Aol yawa.

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  Tai (@TaiSmitty2) reported 16 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Holy ****!!! Does Netscape still exist too? What about AOL?

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  PsychoPNut (@NotPsychoPNut) reported 16 minutes ago

  @RealAlexJones Viruses are boring. I used punters on AOL, NetBus, and Sub7 on IRC victims. I made a script on mIRC, and when someone /joins the #channel, it would send them porn.exe; when they for sure open it, it would pop up a MsgBox "porn is broken rofl.", vbCritical, "oops". #1337h4x0r

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  (PRESS)Scotty Fife (aka) NevNukeMonster (@fife_scotty680) reported 17 minutes ago

  @TommyO1947 And every body posted pictures on face book too So who is to blame, the consumer. They kept posting stuff on the lives, and leaving updates at default. Man followed right off the pier. AOL for a while all were using it. Then the discovery of FTP lmao No more chatting in public, we built are own room and games too. And not one American can go without that comm unit for a week All seem naked without, there is a problem. Powerless over that or the next follower post. GodRocks Crazy

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  Augusto's Air-Taxi Service (@Manservant_H) reported 20 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Holy crap, I need to see if my AOL address still works

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  Gigi 🇵🇷 (@gigi_rivera71) reported 23 minutes ago

  @BBfan4life4sure @Iwanthatveto They didn’t have HOH comps to save them or POV. They had to complete task and had to budget for food. They each had to vote 2 people that they wanted to leave each week. The people with the most votes I believe two or three were left for the viewers to decide banishment by calling an 800 number and voting. Live feeds were on AOL which was horrible. And they had live animals in the BY.

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  JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported 24 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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  JP (@SorceryPelvic) reported 29 minutes ago

  @byoanarchy I will admit I was a "bad" student but they locked me in the server(aol dial up) closet for a month until my mom found out and almost burned the place down.

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  Roger Ledbetter (@rledbetterCPA) reported 32 minutes ago

  You want 90s purchasing power but aren’t ready for the trade offs - - Tupac and Biggie releasing albums - Metallica and grunge peaking - Jordan in his prime - AOL instant messenger and no cell phones - Blockbuster video rentals Okay damn nevermind

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  AURI (@bossladyaurelia) reported 35 minutes ago

  AOL never asked me for more storage and I have emails for over 20 years….. why Gmail gotta do me like that 😫