AOL outages and service status in San Jose, California

Problems in the last 24 hours in San Jose, California

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in San Jose and nearby locations:

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  SANJOSEMAILMAN (@SANJOSEMAILMAN) reported 41 minutes ago from San Jose, California

  @gweenmgwen Oh my God.....remember those days? Signing in to Aol....and waiting for a whole damn night, for a song to download!

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Grahame Clarke (@Gman_50000) reported 5 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 18 out of 20. Never used AOL and never used a Waterbed but everything else? Absolutely.

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  Mayank Agrawal (@mayankagrawal) reported 9 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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  Drea (@DreaC20) reported 11 minutes ago

  @pitbullmom99999 @JackMeoff781 I sent messages like that in AOL chat rooms when I was like 13. Feeling pretty or validated by someone complimenting/supporting you…. but it’s not you…. Or your story…. Or the truth…. 😬 wild ****

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  Design4u1 (@Design4u172491) reported 14 minutes ago

  @PatriotEagle776 This teacher is in some trouble. I give it a week. I sent it to Fox you won't see it on the LSNM (ABC CBS NBC CNN PBS YAHOO AOL HUF POST SALON Media Matters and MSNBC AKA MSNOW) Send it to Fox

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  TOMMEE (@TeePal_) reported 17 minutes ago

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

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  A Thoughtful Man (@r_walles) reported 20 minutes ago

  @nobleisawinner Never got an AOL account.

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  RealNHSMedway (@real_nhs) reported 21 minutes ago

  @AOL How come my email newsfeed has become full of total garbage from @Daily_Express..!? There is real news happening, but those hacks just rewrite what they’ve just watched on TV - it’s embarrassing! Help!

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  Phil McCoxwell (@PhilMccoxwell) reported 21 minutes ago

  @MustangMan_TX Yay! Its AOL. She must’ve hired a civil engineering firm with expertise in roads and bridges to fix her teeth. For some reason I imagine **** flies buzzing around her.

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  nick bradley-sutton (@surfacing3984) reported 24 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19 never had AOL

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  Siddharth (@sambharia) reported 26 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.