AOL outages and service status in Akron, Ohio

Problems in the last 24 hours in Akron, Ohio

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Akron, Ohio 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 Akron, Ohio

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

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  Jamantha (@_smart_person) reported 28 minutes ago from Akron, Ohio

  AOL stands for areolas online that is why I will never delete my old account

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  North Node Dan ☊♐ (@NNAstrology) reported 6 minutes ago

  @BlackDumpling In 100 years, people will not be able to tell WTF really happened anywhere after AOL came online.

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  Business Nerd (@Business_Nerd_) reported 7 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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  Cosmo (@cosmo9210952297) reported 9 minutes ago

  @exQUIZitely Memory’s, played this multiplayer on the internet back in the early 90’s. Sierra network/ImagiNation network. My poor parents, I sure that phone will insane, I spent days on INN. The UI was incredible. Sad, AOL killed it for a reason. Change the 🌎 Ready gamer one 💩.

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  Ehsan (@acadictive) reported 10 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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  Dead Inside (@ScrapIronLiver) reported 11 minutes ago

  @thecowlitzkid I saw a lady on the nextdoor app yesterday ask if anyone else AOL was down, if that helps

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  Northern Steve (@Stevef756119074) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AntiLeftMemes I never had an AOL address.

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  Fiona (@LucidWhim) reported 20 minutes ago

  @AOLSupportHelp Please can AOL empty my junk folder - it currently has 765 junk mails in it. I have never known it so bad.

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  Daughter of Grace (@EjJorams) reported 22 minutes ago

  @wanguwamajani It's painfully annoying and draining. The worst bit is when you have given your ID with the correct spelling and they still spell and pronounce it according to how their tongue chooses... Aol sana. Even the saf agent who registered me for mpsa had it wrongly spelt !

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  Karen Knudson (@KKnudsonHistDoc) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TexasShae2 @JonKatz79 I use my AOL email as a dumping ground when I do not wish to be nagged. I never look at it.

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  N.I.Veteran (@GanglSepp) reported 25 minutes ago

  Kids today will never know true frustration, like we had back in the day, waiting ( whilst listening to it scream ) for AOL to connect to the internet on a dial-up modem... only for someone in the house to pick up the phone! 📞💻😩📶