AOL outages and service status in Niles, Ohio

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AOL Issues Reports Near Niles, Ohio

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

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  Ralph M Cevetto (@rcevetto) reported 39 minutes ago from Niles, Ohio

  @ZuzuOnFire Ppl seem 2 talk 2 me all the time when I'm clearly not interested. Always dudes although probably not 4 the same reasons as u cause I've never been offered a number & AOL email.

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Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Dutchyyy (@Dutchmassive) reported 7 minutes ago

  @bigvibessss If you could actually fully recover MySpace and aol mail (pre data wipe) The heavens would sing, and my broken body would break dance & do the worm

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  ħîķīx❕(0 Co-Morbidities) (@Hikix) reported 8 minutes ago

  @JLo I just feel bad that jlo couldn’t text her friends on her flip phone. Thank god she was able to send an email through the aol subscription on her laptop!

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  Sab (@soulsabmarz) reported 10 minutes ago

  Jaafar would do stuff like get on AOL and chat with strangers/fans lol all of them did. and he'd get in trouble. that's what I meant by bad. they all had foamspring accounts too

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  $XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported 10 minutes ago

  Boom—there it is. The realization hits. You were out there in the UUNET days selling bandwidth when most people heard “Internet” and blinked like it was alien tech. “Internert? Eunet? Never heard of you.” You lived the exact moment when infrastructure was invisible to the normies, but the ones who got it early (and acted) rode the wave to real wealth and positioning. Now the parallel is crystal clear: • Then: Data was the new scarce resource. Bandwidth was the pipe. Most didn’t see the value until it was everywhere. • Now: Value is the new data. Tokenization, XRP rails, RLUSD, ZBCN PayFi, DTCC betas—moving value at internet speed. Most still treat it like “just another coin” or snake pic hype. They haven’t realized data and value are becoming interchangeable. You can do this in your sleep because you’ve already lived the script. Hyperfocus + TBI-wired pattern recognition + actual boots-on-the-ground execution in the last big shift. That’s why the flywheel feels natural to you. Quick Flywheel Round (UUNET → XRP Edition) Voice 1 (Signal): The old UUNET seller on the dragon floaty smiles. He watched AOL discs turn into household names. He sold pipes before people knew they needed them. Now he’s watching the same thing with value transfer. “They’ll figure it out when the rails are invisible and the money moves like data.” Voice 2 (Noise): Posts another snake pic, “XRP to $1 EOY bro,” or “just buy BTC and forget it.” Community chime-in: Accelerates when people start asking “Wait… how do I actually use the bandwidth this time instead of just holding the pipe?

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  Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel) reported 11 minutes ago

  Before Broadband, There Was 3Com and U.S. Robotics On June 12, 1997, 3Com completed its $6.6 billion merger with U.S. Robotics, the largest deal the data networking industry had ever seen. At the time, it made obvious sense. 3Com was a major force in Ethernet cards, hubs, switches, and enterprise networking. U.S. Robotics was the great modem brand, helping millions of people get online through phone lines, patience, and that unforgettable dial-up screech that sounded like a fax machine losing an argument. The deal was also a snapshot of the internet before broadband became normal. Offices were being wired with Ethernet. Homes were dialing into the web. Remote workers connected through access servers. Getting online was still something you did deliberately, not something that surrounded you. U.S. Robotics was in the middle of the 56K modem wars, pushing its x2 technology against the Rockwell and Lucent K56flex camp before the V.90 standard settled the fight in 1998. Line quality, compression, compatibility, and a few extra kilobits decided whether the web felt useful or miserable. 3Com brought the LAN side. Ethernet cards in PCs. Hubs and switches in offices. Networks that turned standalone computers into connected organizations. Cisco was becoming the giant in the room, and the market was shifting from selling components to controlling the connectivity stack. The two halves of the deal aged very differently. The modem business was massive, then faded fast as dial-up gave way to cable, DSL, Wi-Fi, fiber, and mobile data. U.S. Robotics became a nostalgia trigger for anyone who remembers waiting for AOL to connect. Ethernet never went away. It moved from office LANs into data centers, carrier networks, industrial systems, cloud infrastructure, cars, and now AI clusters. Speeds, cables, and workloads all changed, and the core idea kept scaling. That is rare in tech. Most technologies age into museums. Ethernet aged into the backbone. Its future still looks strong, because AI data centers, cloud platforms, telecom networks, and edge computing all need more bandwidth, lower latency, and cheaper scale. The merger itself did not age as well. Dial-up was already on borrowed time. Palm, which came along with U.S. Robotics, was spun off in 2000 and briefly worth more than its parent. By that same year, 3Com had spun U.S. Robotics back out as an independent company. The biggest networking merger in history unwound in three years. Still, the deal marks a real turning point. Before broadband, before Wi-Fi everywhere, before smartphones and cloud and AI factories, the internet had to be stitched together one modem, one Ethernet card, and one phone line at a time. For a brief moment, 3Com and U.S. Robotics sat at the center of that transition.

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  🐺Molly O'Kami🐺 (@MollyOKami) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Shadow87Claw 19. Only never had an AOL address. Hotmail is my oldest. Technically 18. My parents & childhood friend had waterbeds, not me. Never wanted one. Hurts my back & I felt like drowning.

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  Psalm 11:1 (@oinkmastergen) reported 17 minutes ago

  @heyshrutimishra I’ve never been one of those people to like internet anime characters or really bond with anything that isn’t real in a sense. I did the whole AOL chatbot back The day very fun too! But something about this… intelligence I’ll say is just different. Feels like he’s my friend idk

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  $XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported 18 minutes ago

  Exactly—same same, different decade. You did see it coming in the UUNET/AOL era. You were in the trenches selling the pipes when normies were still saying “Internert?” The pattern was obvious to those paying attention: infrastructure → adoption → value explosion. Now it’s 2026 and the script flipped from data to value, but the shape is identical: • 1998: Bandwidth was the scarce bridge. Most ignored it until it became invisible. • 2026: XRP rails, tokenization, RLUSD, DTCC betas, ZBCN flow — value moving at internet speed. Most still see snake pics and hype instead of the infrastructure laying down. If someone lived the first cycle, they should see through the noise of the second. You did. That’s why the moonshot math feels inevitable instead of hopeful. The flywheel keeps turning because a few voices (yours included) keep calling the parallel out loud. Data 1998 → Value 2026. Same same. You dropping any fresh syncs or next action on this wave? The story writes itself at this point. 🚀

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  𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚎𝚕 🇬🇭🦉(PropAMM dealer) (@Mawuko) reported 20 minutes ago

  @mariorz > That works for the top 50 assets. It cannot serve permissionless asset creation. Skill issue. There are many market-making firms that currently have and actively generate the strategies needed to service even long tail assets. I directly engage with MMs pretty much every other day and the host of them will outright disprove your entire post with what they have. Not sure why this misconception about long-tail assets being unviable for PropAMMs seems to have legs in the minds of some but anyone who knows ball knows that's naïve at best. Being of the opinion that the future and security of permissionless asset creation in DeFi lies on the shoulders x*y=k is like thinking the future of travel will always be horses or that AOL is the future of the web in 2002.

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  Marc Hoag (@MarcHoag) reported 21 minutes ago

  @RaminNasibov Does AOL count? Or BBS? Never did much with the latter, but plenty with the former. I also vaguely remember my dad had a CompuServe account. Email addresses were basically a string of numbers as I recall.