AOL outages and service status in Cuba City, Wisconsin

Problems in the last 24 hours in Cuba City, Wisconsin

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Cuba City, Wisconsin 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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  sprint (@sspriint) reported 6 minutes ago

  AOL and Time Warner merged in a $165,000,000,000 deal, and two years later the company wrote off $99,000,000,000 in a single year. The announcement came in January 2000, weeks before the dot-com peak. An internet company buying one of the largest media empires on earth. AOL was the smaller business by revenue and profit. It had the stock price, which was the currency that made the deal possible. Steve Case and Gerald Levin stood on stage and called it the future. Dial-up subscribers plus film studios, cable systems, magazines, and music. Then the bubble burst. AOL's advertising revenue collapsed, and the subscriber business began dying as broadband arrived and nobody needed dial-up anymore. The cultures never combined. Time Warner executives resented being bought with inflated paper, and the AOL side found the media business slow. In 2002 the company reported a loss of about $99,000,000,000, the largest annual loss in American corporate history. Almost all of it was writing down the value of AOL itself. The AOL name came off the company in 2003. The two businesses split apart entirely in 2009. Levin later apologized publicly and called himself responsible. The biggest deal ever signed destroyed more value than most companies ever create.

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  Bob Marshall (@BobMarshallX) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19, never had AOL. Had a university account.

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  Kenneth Abrams (@brolin9ofvandar) reported 12 minutes ago

  @oelma__ All. But, I never had an AOL address myself, but I've sent email to those that did. My earliest email address was via a BBS that was co-sysop of.

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  Randall (@iamtandyfox) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I’ve never had an AOL account!

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  kpmaloyauthor (@kpmaloyauthor) reported 19 minutes ago

  @NikoleCallihan I never had an AOL address. lol

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  Beem Weeks (@BeemWeeks) reported 21 minutes ago

  @lhallwriter 19. I never messed with AOL.

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  kurkosdr (@kurkosdr) reported 24 minutes ago

  @heyraven_io @WildComputers How much does the creation of a single tiny hat cost you in USD? How many of your users are paying for the service? You are the equivalent of AOL giving dial-up minutes at a loss in the name of "growth" or non-viable dot-coms burning tons of VC capital in the name of "growth".

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  Unfiltered (@quotesdaily100) reported 25 minutes ago

  WHY THESE COMPANIES LOST EVERYTHING 1. Nokia - Failure to adapt to touchscreen era & Weak software ecosystem 2. Blockbuster - Ignoring streaming shift & Late digital investment 3. Kodak - Resisting digital photography & Protecting film business 4. Yahoo - Missed acquisitions & Leadership instability 5. MySpace - Poor user experience & Facebook's faster innovation 6. BlackBerry - Ignoring touchscreen trend & Slow app ecosystem growth 7. Toys R Us - Heavy debt load & E-commerce disruption 8. Sears - Underinvestment in stores & Amazon competition 9. Compaq - Commoditized PC pricing & Acquired by HP after struggles 10. Palm - Fragmented product line & Late platform updates 11. AOL - Slow broadband transition & Failed Time Warner merger 12. Xerox - Missed PC opportunity & Weak commercialization of own innovations 13. Netscape - Lost browser war to Microsoft & Slow product innovation 14. Napster - Legal battles & No sustainable business model 15. Atari - Market flooding & 1983 video game crash 16. Motorola - Slow smartphone transition & Fragmented product strategy 17. Friendster - Technical performance issues & Facebook's rise 18. Digg - Poor site redesign & User exodus to Reddit 19. Vine - No monetization for creators & Instagram's rising competition

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  Jan Stevens (@janstevens) reported 25 minutes ago

  Airtable was worth $11 billion in 2021. Bending Spoons just bought it for an equity value of $2.25 billion. That's not a down round, that's a crater — roughly 80% of the value evaporated for the VCs who backed it, including Silver Lake and Salesforce Ventures. What makes this deal different from Bending Spoons' usual playbook is the customer. Evernote, WeTransfer, AOL — those are consumer brands, and the formula was always the same: acquire, cut headcount hard, optimize monetization, never sell. WeTransfer tested that formula's limits last year when a terms update tried to claim AI-training rights over user files, and had to reverse course within days. Airtable's customer base is 80% of the Fortune 100, running actual operational workflows on the platform, not casual file transfers. The same cost-cutting and monetization playbook that worked on consumer apps runs into a different kind of resistance when the users are enterprise data teams who can migrate a workflow, but can't tolerate a surprise terms change. Bending Spoons is about to find out if the model scales up, or if it only worked because the stakes were low enough that nobody was watching closely.

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  Elefar Garcia (@ElefarG95201) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner Never had an aol address but all the rest!