AOL outages and service status in Burbank, California

Problems in the last 24 hours in Burbank, California

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Burbank, California 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 Near Burbank, California

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

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  Jeremiah (@lebontempkid) reported 30 minutes ago from Burbank, California

  I'm so glad Twitter did not exist in my youth, the AOL chat rooms were bad enough

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  Coco (@cocoburbank) reported 49 minutes ago from City of Burbank, California

  @nayemonique @716Transplant Probably not it was so so bad lolll my aol scree name was xfilesam lollll

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel) reported 15 minutes ago

  Before Broadband, There Was 3Com and U.S. Robotics On June 12, 1997, 3Com completed its $6.6 billion merger with U.S. Robotics, the largest deal the data networking industry had ever seen. At the time, it made obvious sense. 3Com was a major force in Ethernet cards, hubs, switches, and enterprise networking. U.S. Robotics was the great modem brand, helping millions of people get online through phone lines, patience, and that unforgettable dial-up screech that sounded like a fax machine losing an argument. The deal was also a snapshot of the internet before broadband became normal. Offices were being wired with Ethernet. Homes were dialing into the web. Remote workers connected through access servers. Getting online was still something you did deliberately, not something that surrounded you. U.S. Robotics was in the middle of the 56K modem wars, pushing its x2 technology against the Rockwell and Lucent K56flex camp before the V.90 standard settled the fight in 1998. Line quality, compression, compatibility, and a few extra kilobits decided whether the web felt useful or miserable. 3Com brought the LAN side. Ethernet cards in PCs. Hubs and switches in offices. Networks that turned standalone computers into connected organizations. Cisco was becoming the giant in the room, and the market was shifting from selling components to controlling the connectivity stack. The two halves of the deal aged very differently. The modem business was massive, then faded fast as dial-up gave way to cable, DSL, Wi-Fi, fiber, and mobile data. U.S. Robotics became a nostalgia trigger for anyone who remembers waiting for AOL to connect. Ethernet never went away. It moved from office LANs into data centers, carrier networks, industrial systems, cloud infrastructure, cars, and now AI clusters. Speeds, cables, and workloads all changed, and the core idea kept scaling. That is rare in tech. Most technologies age into museums. Ethernet aged into the backbone. Its future still looks strong, because AI data centers, cloud platforms, telecom networks, and edge computing all need more bandwidth, lower latency, and cheaper scale. The merger itself did not age as well. Dial-up was already on borrowed time. Palm, which came along with U.S. Robotics, was spun off in 2000 and briefly worth more than its parent. By that same year, 3Com had spun U.S. Robotics back out as an independent company. The biggest networking merger in history unwound in three years. Still, the deal marks a real turning point. Before broadband, before Wi-Fi everywhere, before smartphones and cloud and AI factories, the internet had to be stitched together one modem, one Ethernet card, and one phone line at a time. For a brief moment, 3Com and U.S. Robotics sat at the center of that transition.

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  DXWOM-TV Watcher Prime (Ghost Watcher Uplink)***-P (@EnigmaQorps) reported 17 minutes ago

  @sprosay10 @Supamusk123 Dear Elon, I have always been someone who respected you and never gave two shits how smart you were or what you did. There are times that we have disagreed but I never to decided the problem was you just because you bought a website that never was good as Myspace or AOL. If anything? Thank you for taking **** out of my data drop from my timeline in 2021. You showed me that I must have scared them so much that I knew whether or not a lens flare made anyone unhuman. Which is stupid. Science Exists.

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  Sab (@soulsabmarz) reported 18 minutes ago

  Jaafar would do stuff like get on AOL and chat with strangers/fans lol all of them did. and he'd get in trouble. that's what I meant by bad. they all had foamspring accounts too

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  Kathryn (@kbean511) reported 18 minutes ago

  Why is @X on my iPad acting like AOL dial up? @Support

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  Brad 🛹 (@BradleySmith93) reported 19 minutes ago

  @RetroTechDreams Would play the **** out turret defense custom games in this with AOL dial up internet. Then I'd end up disconnecting from games due to my sisters unplugging the internet to use the phoneline to call up boys. Good times.

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  brdandchocdiet☮️ (@docrozcallahn) reported 24 minutes ago

  @AOL i’ve been a loyal customer of AOL for more years than I care to mention they cannot transfer my email account to my new android phone. The customer support online cannot help me because they can’t verify me online. the customer support help phone number is not working😳😳😳

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  FuriaDiDonna (@furiadidonna) reported 26 minutes ago

  “I had to get on the AOL dial up to find out who this Bari Weiss is. Substack? What is that? My internet connection is too slow to load the images “

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  stuck in america (@XKillerxYouthX) reported 26 minutes ago

  @pharmacykitty Gmail ******* sucks let's go back to aol

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  Inside Agitator (@AbsolutelyMalc1) reported 27 minutes ago

  @CodeByPoonam "most companies won't do this" actually most tech companies do this. AOL also minted thousands of paper millionaire employees, including janitors. then they acquired Time Warner and the stock went down every day after

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  Goebz (@Raptor_RUD) reported 31 minutes ago

  @SpaceX service is hands down a nerd's dream. At 37 years old, having gone from getting an AOL disk at the Grand Union to 300+ Mbps from space tickles me in a way my wife can’t.