AOL outages and service status in San Carlos, California

Problems in the last 24 hours in San Carlos, California

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Michael L. Gaugler (@gaumishang) reported 2 minutes ago

  @cutoffs_io I am freaking Gaumishang everywhere. Twitter LinkedIn Yahoo AOL you name it I unified my entire online presence decades ago and still refuse to have a Facebook account because first of all that ******* is an ******* and does not have the American people's interests in mind. You can even look up my thesis film at UB, those of you who use it are buffoons. PK12 BA MAH BSEd.🙏🇺🇸

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  Jon M. Taggart (@jonmtaggart) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Soaringeagle45 19 for me. Never had an AOL address.

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  NipNapShite (@NipNapShite) reported 7 minutes ago

  @keithapearson Still very much on aol Might have been their first customer 🤪

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  Crosby Tatum (@crosbyt123) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Kev1743 @TheOVW5 I’ll never forget it. I took a flyer on a ticket. I had an AOL Instant Messenger communicator back in the day with a sprint pcs phone. Drove down from Boston in my beat up 89 Toyota Camry. Best night of my life.

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  Del Leonard Jones (@jonesdel) reported 13 minutes ago

  @MilkRoadAI Frontier models appear headed down the AOL road. If Anthropic and OpenAI fail, I wonder who gets dragged down with them.

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  Eric H (@TesseractUnfold) reported 16 minutes ago

  @rhayadercompute -- When I worked customer service at a regional ISP around 2000, I tiled the walls of my cubicle with AOL discs. Ended up with one full wall and half of another covered. XD

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  Tony Soprano (@Rick847549) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Bw8496 Yes, America only, and yes I have a VPN because I love talking mad **** on here, like the good old days in the AOL chat rooms.

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 17 minutes ago

  Researchers tracked 344,753 websites over 18 months to map where American attention actually goes online. The answer is email. Gmail alone is 16% of all desktop time. Add Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL, and inboxes eat nearly a quarter of every hour Americans spend at a computer. That's double the combined total of Facebook, X, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and WhatsApp. The legacy numbers are the wild part. Yahoo Mail, at 3.71%, gets more attention than ChatGPT, Reddit, and Netflix combined. AOL Mail, a service most people assume died with dial-up, beats Instagram and Discord combined. Yahoo still has roughly 225 million active mail users, skewing Gen X and Boomer: people who opened an account in 1999 and never saw a reason to leave. Google Search sits at just 2.33%. The front door of the entire internet gets less time than Yahoo's inbox, because search is engineered to end fast. Every second you spend on a results page is a second Google failed. The chart measures desktop, which explains the shape. Your phone is where you play. Your computer is where you work. And the work of being an American in 2026, the bills, the receipts, the school notices, the job applications, still runs through a protocol invented in 1971. Strip away 30 years of apps and the desktop internet is a post office with better graphics.

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  James Winebrenner (@JamesWinebren14) reported 19 minutes ago

  I worked from home no doubt. Started with fax machines. We actually used high resolution fax machines to transfer camera ready artwork. Long before AOL dial up. F.I.N.S. works with all software or no computer at all like morse code after a first strike during the Cold War my SOS.

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  Jeb Hill (@memphistigerjeb) reported 21 minutes ago

  19. I never had an AOL account. I jumped in hard on Earthlink back then.