AOL outages and service status in Hamburg, Pennsylvania

Problems in the last 24 hours in Hamburg, Pennsylvania

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Hamburg, Pennsylvania 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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  jeff (@VulcanMoron) reported 6 minutes ago

  @bobo103nyc I remember seeing this as a kid back in the AOL days and thinking “surely this is the worst thing I’ll ever see on the internet”

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  Denise (@its_miss_niece) reported 9 minutes ago

  @osucoffeelovr2 @AOL @juno I never had Netscape!

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  HL3 (@HL3tweets) reported 12 minutes ago

  @PatVPeters Go fix me a drink, AOL.

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  Bill Bishop (@niubi) reported 16 minutes ago

  This pro-PRC model industry group from Silicon Valley is interesting but I think not thinking long-term. Why can’t the frontier labs do something like AOL did with its Greenhouse project and say OK, I will let you distill but we want equity in your company and/or a fee. AOL got equity for promotion/placement on the screen. (we committed 30+ million at MarketWatch, helped traffic and the ipo a lot, but worst company I have ever negotiated with). Anyway, apologies for the digression, but why couldn’t this be similar but for distillation access, and the labs like Anthropic and OpenAI could end up with a really interesting portfolio of companies, some of which might become quite valuable, and those smaller firms’ VCs could also benefit? Otherwise, does it really make sense for a huge swathe of the American technology industry to end up dependent on PRC models? Haven’t we learned any lessons from other industries where PRC firms have been able to come in at a very low cost with good products and effectively create dependencies that crowd at all other competitors? And now we are talking about the most transformative industry in many years, and it could be even worse if it’s built in part through some problematic practices in terms of distillation attacks and export control violations, if some of US government’s and frontier labs’ claims are true?

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  Doug TenNapel (@DougTenNapel) reported 18 minutes ago

  Use a different service than AOL dial up.

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  Heisenburgir (@heisenburgirrs) reported 22 minutes ago

  People prefer to pay flat rates than metered. In today's age, you can give an agent monthly budget (flat rate) and not have to worry about how many micropayments it makes for products/services. Excerpt from "Case Against Micropayments": "What was the biggest complaint of AOL users? Not the widely mocked and irritating blue bar that appeared when members downloaded information. Not the frequent unsolicited junk e-mail. Not dropped connections. Their overwhelming gripe: the ticking clock. Users didn’t want to pay by the hour anymore. ... Case had heard from one AOL member who insisted that she was being cheated by AOL’s hourly rate pricing. When he checked her average monthly usage, he found that she would be paying AOL more under the flat-rate price of $19.95. When Case informed the user of that fact, her reaction was immediate. ‘I don’t care,’ she told an incredulous Case. ’I am being cheated by you.’"

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  Magdiel Cruz (@Anthony_Tachi) reported 28 minutes ago

  @AirlockOpen 19. Never used AOL. Preferred not to use it.

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  Robyn O'Donnell (@RobynDODonnell) reported 29 minutes ago

  LOL, compete with other streaming mergers. Paramount+ works worse than AOL dial-up in the 1990's. It sucks so bad they need help!

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  Bradley S. Klein 🇺🇦 (@BradleySKlein) reported 29 minutes ago

  I’m sure this will sound like the roar of a dinosaur, but as a (remaining) AOL user, I had a serious tech issue of access, called them, they answered, and a very helpful, patient human walked me through a reprogramming procedure with one of my computers to restore access. Easy

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  RLDThree (@RLDThree) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Pirat_Nation PSN is always going down. Worst online service since AOL. Anyway, it's an excuse for the physical media moaners to start up.