AOL outages and service status in Petaluma, California

Problems in the last 24 hours in Petaluma, California

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

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  john (@johndillen77) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh 19. Never had an AOL email

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  PackagingMachineryHandbook (@Packagingbook23) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh Never had a but I had Compuserve in the 80s and Genie in90. Both before AOL. Does that count? Otherwise 19

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  William Roddy (@WilliamRoddy14) reported 6 minutes ago

  Loudon County, VA has the highest median family income in the country. It is not the richest--Elon doesn't live there. Loudon was the headquarters of the internet 30 years ago. AOL had their HQ there. The data centers were built before residents knew about the problems.

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  The Dread Bunny (@jpvanhoy) reported 6 minutes ago

  @lili_poobear @Phantom_King_99 @gizalovespizza Ok, look, you can probably find a half dozen slightly different definitions of the word "evolve" online (we both know you didn't use a dead-tree dictionary). But the fact remains, to not evolve is to stagnate. Even the definition you gave, if converted the boolean opposite, would say, "to NOT develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form", and you could then argue that OP wants it to get more complex, but RAPIDLY rather than SLOWLY. The point is technology should always advance. Just because you're unhappy with some specific implementation of technology in the present, doesn't mean that "advance" will mean "things get worse". It's pretty childish to take that position, in fact. I mean, for ****'s sake, you're ON THE INTERNET right now, probably using either wireless broadband, or wired broadband access to post this message. Can you imagine sitting in at your computer desk, with the monitor riser and built-in CD-ROM storage slots, dialing into AOL in about 1996 and saying, "GAH! I don't want technology to evolve any more. I'm tired of sitting here waiting for JPGs of John Stamos to take 40 seconds to load. I'm tired of getting my directions from Mapquest!"

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  Blink (@HRTLegal) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Sprocketguys @neoavatara The Internet peaked when it was a hodgepodge of isolated intranet service providers (AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, etc) that had their own internal stuff you interacted with and you only used the www to go to a legit web site, not some social media garbage dump.

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  Joe Schwarten (@joeschwarten) reported 8 minutes ago

  Had our yearly apartment inspection. 2 Guys comes in does their thing. Looks at my monitor, "Damn dude, that thing is old, you run AOL on it?" Other guy, "you even old enough to remember AOL?" YG, "Yeah, I was born in 1997." Me: "Dude, that monitor is as old as you are!"

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  Kalyani 🔱 (@K_Oswal) reported 11 minutes ago

  Oye @sardesairajdeep why so quiet. Werent you jumping n dancing when Vimlendu n that other man Mishra now dead made false allegations on AOL? Yr wife after her horrible fake the nation video went begging for forgiveness to Gurudev. When are you apologizing? Saanp suungh gaya?

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  Michael R. Rambo Jr. (@DarthVegeta) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh 18 out of 20. Never had a waterbed; never had an AOL address

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  Rasterdeck (@Rasterdeck25086) reported 14 minutes ago

  @sentient_ape1 @0xPrajwal_ Ah, yeah I can't think of a single other alternative to that. Same problem I have with teams and slack and zoom and teamspeak and discord and skype and AOL and mIRC. But we all do exactly that anyway because there's literally no other option.

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  PPE (@planert41) reported 18 minutes ago

  The internet enabled "connectivity". All these isolated pockets of information and communities and people always existed before, but being able to connect them together with the internet was what created the huge marginal value. I think the gains falls into 3 general buckets: 1) Connecting/Aggregating supply and demand. People have way more choices now from both supply and demand side - Amazon, Facebook (for human interests/social communities) 2) Efficiency gains from better coordination - Amazon 2 Day Delivery. 3) Frictionless instant distribution - Netflix streaming movies into your home Everyone has been talking about who extracts the most value from the AI stack, and if you look at the internet it's undoubtedly the applications that did. The rest of the stack essentially became commoditized. So let's get back to AI. In the same vein, i think AI enables "intelligence". Before this if you wanted to build a website, you had to hire someone who had the "intelligence" or gain the "intelligence" yourself to build it. Now you just ask AI and it does it for you. Intelligence/Execution is now cheap. Everyone has an intelligent PHD who knows a little of everything working for them on their computer now. OpenAI/Anthropic doesn't feel too different than say AOL back in the day when it was the only way consumers could access the internet. Eventually people had alternatives and it went away although for the internet providers, AOL didn't necessarily provide "better" internet than its competitors but the frontier AI models could potentially. AI Chips/Hardware now don't seem too dissimilar to how modems/routers/optic cables were for the internet. It'll still be short squeezed in the short term, but we'll eventually get more alternatives and supply. Energy/infrastructure - Eventually ppl will build data centers in the middle of nowhere with energy supply and it'll be fine. There will be alternatives. So i think eventually all the value will accrue to the application layer as everything else gets commoditized? But what would those applications look like? One thought experiment would be to consider which companies/products couldn't exist without the internet. Everyone in FAANG could be considered here, so maybe the trick is to find companies that couldn't exist without AI? Walmart would still exist without the internet, but not Amazon. Amazon figured out how to give itself an unfair advantage with the internet. Google obviously couldn't exist without the internet. So what are the similar parallels for AI? Maybe something like Harvey? What could i do with AI that i couldn't before (besides coding?). Most things still just feel like marginal efficiency gains (besides coding), instead of completely newly unlocked capabilities. I could imagine like a personal AI health assistant that will give you the vitamins or cook personalized meals (via contractor) you need everyday based on your data. Or maybe like an AI home system that helps you schedule for maintenance/repairs without you needing to think about it? Perhaps the internet solved the distribution problem, so the bet should just be on companies who already have a lock on distribution like $CRM and bet that they'll figure AI out. But perhaps we still need more time for AI to play out to identify these potential long term winners. We still don't really know what we can actually do with AI yet