AOL outages and service status in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Problems in the last 24 hours in Scranton, Pennsylvania

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Scranton, Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Community Discussion

Tips? Frustrations? Share them here. Useful comments include a description of the problem, city and postal code.

Beware of "support numbers" or "recovery" accounts that might be posted below. Make sure to report and downvote those comments. Avoid posting your personal information.

AOL Issues Reports Near Scranton, Pennsylvania

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

• 
  Sean McLane (@seanmcIane) reported 26 minutes ago from Scranton, Pennsylvania

  Grayson be on AOL Mail! WTF! It’s 2019. Get a gd Gmail!

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

• 
  ChezShae (@TexasShae2) reported 2 minutes ago

  @JonKatz79 If I don't sign in to one of my old accounts on aol or yahoo at least once a week I have to go from one email to another to get a code to sign in to the other email. Wait, wth am I doing that? I'm closing some email accts.

• 
  Business Nerd (@Business_Nerd_) reported 2 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.

• 
  Angry Batguy (@i_am_batguy) reported 6 minutes ago

  @brockpierson Used to go to the AOL chat rooms and talk crap on the PlayStation kids like “PSUX!!!” Those were the days.

• 
  politicalGRAFFITI (@politicalGRAF) reported 9 minutes ago

  @GarlicRush 19 I never used AOL

• 
  Joshua Claassen (@jclaassen177) reported 14 minutes ago

  @AntiLeftMemes 19... never had an AOL address.

• 
  Paul 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@pypolk) reported 17 minutes ago

  @AIandDesign The compute costs will inevitably come down, and it will get cheaper. AI video access of today, looks like AOL by the hour, of the 90s, and now internet access is unlimited.

• 
  JD (@JDunn1973) reported 17 minutes ago

  @SunlunTickets Somebody tie Luke and Trai to a lamp post at the AOL please and tell them they are never allowed to leave

• 
  Caesar ☆ (@UnitedBall_) reported 18 minutes ago

  @FUNDxei Not the AOL 😭 man basically called you vintage with customer support included.

• 
  North Node Dan ☊♐ (@NNAstrology) reported 18 minutes ago

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

• 
  N.I.Veteran (@GanglSepp) reported 23 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! 📞💻😩📶