AOL outages and service status in Bristol, Connecticut

Problems in the last 24 hours in Bristol, Connecticut

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Bristol, Connecticut 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

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  BonkDaCarnivore (@BonkDaCarnivore) reported 4 minutes ago

  Speaking of suing and losing, did you know that John Cardildo once sued AOL (yes, that AOL - remember he's a Boomer)? It must have been strange for him to be on the Plaintiff's side of the court. Anyhow, not only did he lose his lawsuit (he's never won in court period), but AOL countersued him and got a judgement for $90,547.95 against him. Hey Johnny Boy, did you ever pay your debts?

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  Mayank Agrawal (@mayankagrawal) reported 6 minutes ago

  Should we need to pay for email? In 2006, AOL and Yahoo announced priority delivery for senders willing to pay somewhere around a penny per message, with the promise that those messages would bypass the spam filter. The diagnosis behind it was correct. Email often breaks because sending is free, and when volume costs nothing, volume becomes the strategy (hello AI outbound!). Everything built afterward (filters, blocklists, sender reputation scores) is an attempt to patch a problem that is fundamentally about economics, and not about technology. Today, the same dynamic plays out on a much larger surface. AI agents can complete forms, take surveys, open accounts, and browse sites at a scale that would have been unimaginable for a spam operation twenty years ago, and most of that activity still registers in company dashboards as ordinary human demand. What I find most encouraging about Proof of Human is that this doesn't require the previous tradeoff. There's no toll, no puzzle, and nothing for a genuine visitor to notice or solve, because verification runs continuously in the background across the whole session rather than at a single checkpoint. When a decision does get made, there's a record behind it that a team can actually inspect, rather than an opaque score they're asked to trust. The email industry spent two decades learning that you can't tax your way to trust, and that authentication works better than obstruction. That lesson is worth carrying into whatever comes next.

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  sid (@palpatean) reported 8 minutes ago

  AOL chat rooms 1999-2000. Buddies and I would just show up and talk **** to people for no reason. Good times

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  Patty (@pir8gold) reported 9 minutes ago

  Only 19.. Never had an AOL address, but do I get an extra point for using a slide rule???

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  Bazooka Joe (@vikingreg24) reported 9 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19 Never had an AOL address

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  Bark Reynolds (@BarkReynolds) reported 13 minutes ago

  @CryptoCyberia civilization went demonstrably down hill when AOL started shipping access to the internet to everyone's mailbox

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  Sean Heilweil (@seanheilweil) reported 20 minutes ago

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MYSPACE Cache Ventures ("Cache"), beneficial owner of zero (0) shares of MySpace, today issued the following letter to the Board of Directors of MySpace, c/o Tim Vanderhook and Chris Vanderhook. Dear Members of the Board, We write to formally express our interest in acquiring, partnering on, or otherwise assuming operational stewardship of MySpace. I. BACKGROUND Cache has sought to engage with the Board privately on twelve (12) prior occasions. The Board has elected not to respond. For the record: all twelve messages were delivered. None bounced. Cache operates an email verification company. We are in a position to confirm this. We therefore proceed publicly, as is customary. II. RATIONALE On July 31, the Board publicly confirmed that it still owns MySpace, considers itself a steward of the brand, and intends to relaunch, pending the right time. Cache respectfully submits that the right time was approximately eleven years ago, and that the second-best time is Tuesday. We further note that today, Bending Spoons, owner of Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Eventbrite and AOL, and which has never sold a material business, announced the $1.285 billion acquisition of Airtable, a company the market valued at $11 billion in 2021. The market for beloved internet brands that stopped compounding is now competitive. MySpace is the most valuable unmanaged asset remaining in it. III. PROPOSAL Cache is prepared to: (a) acquire MySpace outright; (b) partner on the relaunch; or (c) enter a joint venture in which the Board retains control and Cache assumes the operating burden. Cache has no fund, no investment committee, and no obligation to consult anyone before signing. This is submitted as a feature. Let Cache be the Bending Spoons to your MySpace. IV. CONCLUSION The brand does not need saving. It needs someone whose entire job is waking up and running it. We remain reachable at the same address that has now worked twelve consecutive times. Sincerely, Sean Heilweil Cache Ventures — This communication does not constitute a tender offer, a solicitation, or a filing of any kind. Cache reserves the right to escalate this matter to a carousel. Shareholder input is invited on the following matter: if MySpace relaunched tomorrow, what is the one feature you would restore, and the one that should remain permanently in 2008? Top 8 nominations will be reviewed in the order received.

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  Jon Morgan 🇺🇦 (@JonMorganDP) reported 26 minutes ago

  19. I never had an AOL address.

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  Costa del Sol Fredrik (@fjessing) reported 26 minutes ago

  @miracles7k You are right, never an AOL Address, but the rest!

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  TOMMEE (@TeePal_) reported 30 minutes ago

  @VikesTrophyCase @amandalorian_ Damn girl u got an AOL AIM username?