AOL outages and service status in Waunakee, Wisconsin

Problems in the last 24 hours in Waunakee, Wisconsin

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Waunakee, 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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  Mari Luukkainen (@mariluukkainen) reported 10 minutes ago

  Airtable just got acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.2B+. The company raised $1.4B in funding and was valued at $11.7B in 2021. It has $480M in ARR growing 20 percent and filed for an IPO five months ago. None of that mattered and $2.25B equity value barely clears the preference stack. Early employees and common shareholders split what is left after investors get their liquidation preferences back. Bending Spoons collects SaaS companies the way private equity collects distressed assets. AOL, Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, now Airtable. They listed on Nasdaq three weeks ago and this is already their first post-IPO acquisition. Airtable is not a bad company. $480M ARR and 80 percent of the Fortune 100 as customers is a good business. The lesson is that raising $1.4B at an $11.7B valuation in 2021 set a bar that no amount of revenue growth could clear. The preference stack becomes the ceiling. Basically it's another corpse of bloated valuations of that period of time. What Airtable would look like if it had raised $50M instead of $1.4B? Same product, market and ARR trajectory. At $480M ARR a $1.285B exit would have been a massive win for everyone involved. The money that was supposed to be rocket fuel became the weight that dragged it down. Also worth noting: Bending Spoons is an Italian company buying American tech at a discount. The narrative that European tech cannot compete is aging badly. It is just competing differently, not by building hype but by buying the hangover.

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  Sho (@_ItsSho) reported 10 minutes ago

  @JaeOffScript GamerSaloon isn’t even close to PL The app n site itself looks like AOL compared to present day ****

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  Misharonmash (@misharonmash) reported 11 minutes ago

  I tried to reach tribal IT via the website and they never called and I found via a computer tech that my number was blocked when he tried to call me . I’m scared. Michael and Yassine are two university students who when they were students they let me look stuff up online since the browser is locked to non university students but I never accessed it without them. I found one of their numbers in my notebook and I don’t writer private data like that down. Since then I learned via my bank about signing onto Google accounts on browsers at the library and how it stores info and I wonder if my data was compromised somewhere. But the weird thing is that My friend told me about cybersecurity. He was very helpful about being a protector about that kind of thing. It was Brad who left information out of things- like the many options besides syncing . Unless that did me a favor to preserve my data sowmwhere if people have been trying to change it . But it looked already changed in a way that it was hacked a long time ago like another version and the version of emails I wrote were overwritten. My theory is that becaue I’m missing soooo much allll my Google and aol disappeared I mean decades of correspondences was surprised that public libraries weren’t as secure as private university libraries. I thought public libraries would be more secure being public. Clearing caches and protecting data on govt websites is common a govt website doesn’t store passwords on its browser

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  andrew engler (@aerockrose) reported 15 minutes ago

  Robert Johnson explains the exit-timing test behind selling BET to Viacom. BET had gone public in 1991 as "the first African American company publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange." Then Johnson and John Malone "bought the company back private in '98." The question became: "How do we continue to grow it and at the same time create an exit strategy for Liberty Media?" Then the market gave him a signal. "AOL merged with Time Warner." "That was sort of the highest valuation for media companies you'd ever see in a long time." When Sumner Redstone called, Johnson's first answer was not yes. "I don't think it's for sale." "Maybe we'd like you as a partner." "But I'm not ready to sell." He sold only after the control terms protected the asset. "If they wanted me to stay at the company for the five years I was going to sign the contract, it had to be independent." "I would only report to Sumner or Mel." When I look at a sale, this is the part I care about. The high valuation matters, but the better question is whether the buyer, timing, and control terms protect what made the asset valuable. - Robert Johnson on FoundationINTERVIEWS

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  Tiffany LaDow, PharmD (@LadowTiffany) reported 16 minutes ago

  As a kid I got in so much trouble for chatting on AOL Instant Messenger while doing homework but honestly nothing could’ve prepared me better for Microsoft Teams ✨

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  Siddharth (@sambharia) reported 16 minutes ago

  when the internet was still new, AOL (largeest web client & dial-up service) didn't let its users access the internet. Prodigy, a competitor, was the first to allow its users access to the internet. this looks similar to how frontier labs is trying to lock the harness with the model.

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  Cannatastic (@cannatastic) reported 19 minutes ago

  @dennismiloseski @hthieblot Damn, I haven't heard the word warez since the aol chat room days. Punters were fun.

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  Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) reported 21 minutes ago

  .@Ask_Spectrum is worse than AOL dial up—by far. Some manager gave me his number so I could call him if things got bad again. No reply. I need to spend my time trying to save my life from the massive malpractice by Kaiser. My energy is just crushed every day. I struggle to write even a few lines. Dealing with Spectrum again and again and again and it never been fixed is energy outlay I cannot afford.

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  BrosefStalin42 (@BrosefStalin42) reported 26 minutes ago

  @KieranWrites $$$ and the fact YouTube still gets more content uploaded in 10 mins than you can watch in a year means it's pretty much impossible to compete. The real issue is DMCA is from 1999. Internet has changed from the AOL free Internet disc days.

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  Hank (@reba70443652) reported 26 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19 for me. I never had an AOL account.