AOL outages and service status in Watsonville, California

Problems in the last 24 hours in Watsonville, California

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Watsonville, 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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  Heisenburgir (@heisenburgirrs) reported 5 minutes ago

  People prefer to pay flat rates than metered. In today's age, you can give an agent monthly budget (flat rate) and not have to worry about how many micropayments it makes for products/services. Excerpt from "Case Against Micropayments": "What was the biggest complaint of AOL users? Not the widely mocked and irritating blue bar that appeared when members downloaded information. Not the frequent unsolicited junk e-mail. Not dropped connections. Their overwhelming gripe: the ticking clock. Users didn’t want to pay by the hour anymore. ... Case had heard from one AOL member who insisted that she was being cheated by AOL’s hourly rate pricing. When he checked her average monthly usage, he found that she would be paying AOL more under the flat-rate price of $19.95. When Case informed the user of that fact, her reaction was immediate. ‘I don’t care,’ she told an incredulous Case. ’I am being cheated by you.’"

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  Bill Bishop (@niubi) reported 8 minutes ago

  This pro-PRC model industry group from Silicon Valley is interesting but I think not thinking long-term. Why can’t the frontier labs do something like AOL did with its Greenhouse project and say OK, I will let you distill but we want equity in your company and/or a fee. AOL got equity for promotion/placement on the screen. (we committed 30+ million at MarketWatch, helped traffic and the ipo a lot, but worst company I have ever negotiated with). Anyway, apologies for the digression, but why couldn’t this be similar but for distillation access, and the labs like Anthropic and OpenAI could end up with a really interesting portfolio of companies, some of which might become quite valuable, and those smaller firms’ VCs could also benefit? Otherwise, does it really make sense for a huge swathe of the American technology industry to end up dependent on PRC models? Haven’t we learned any lessons from other industries where PRC firms have been able to come in at a very low cost with good products and effectively create dependencies that crowd at all other competitors? And now we are talking about the most transformative industry in many years, and it could be even worse if it’s built in part through some problematic practices in terms of distillation attacks and export control violations, if some of US government’s and frontier labs’ claims are true?

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  O.W. Root (@owroot) reported 11 minutes ago

  This and a CD-ROM with 4,000 free hours of AOL would fix me.

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  malinvestment.jpeg (@malinvested) reported 12 minutes ago

  @atelicinvest kind of seems like it’s as simple as: can’t price to marginal utility in a competitive market, you have to price to marginal cost. and every day, it looks more and more like tokens will be a competitive, many-player, non-oligopolistic market. it’s not like AOL ever tried to price their email service based on the cost of sending the same messages via USPS, nor could Yahoo / Google price search based on the equivalent cost of the human labor of looking through microfilm at your local library

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  puristini (@jurisdoctrine) reported 17 minutes ago

  I “walked” onto the internet using AOL online, the dial-up internet service that functions via telephone wire. It’s a phone call. Used to be 14.4 kbps and that is way lower than 30 Mb of now. Via cable or fiber optics. I am completely just a person. We reset the internet.

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  Robert Anthony (@RobertAnthony_T) reported 17 minutes ago

  @ClayTravis I was 14 when the strike it and a die hard Yankees fan, I was devastated- I did come back in 1995. I watch baseball every single day, and bet on it. Not parlays, never a parlay or prop bet - real actual old school bets, my minimum bet is $1200. Sometimes a lot more. I bet $9000 on the Mets earlier tonight because I liked them a lot. So I bet heavy and regularly. I'm down about $20K this baseball seaod but that's besides the point and a long way to go. In terms of the game - baseball has a major flaw that's like a cancer. Strikeouts. NL struck out 15 times in the all star game. The pitchers are collectively better than ever, and the hitters are no longer embarrassed to strike out. That's a deadly combination. Players like Luis Arraez, who hits .330, hardly ever strikes out, and gets key hits are not valued. Arraez could barely muster up a 1 year deal. These baseball executives aren't the sharpest. Back to the main point - if baseball goes on a long hiatus, which I think they will - if you ask me the under/over is May 2028. Because once 2027 is lost, they aren't going to play chicken again until 2028. So around May 2028 is when I suspect they would cobble together a deal. If they do what I suspect the sport will never ever be the same. It will be completely decimated. Revenue will be slashed. It will make 1994 look like a party. In 1994 there was nothing to even do, we didn't even have dial up AOL yet in house. Now there are endless options and endless entertainment. There are influencers (whatever you want to call them) that we never even heard of who are talented and get tens of millions of views- and the kids love them. Throw in the shorts that warped all the kids attention span, and everything else on social media sites - there is endless amounts of entertainment and competition for a buck. MLB is clearly delusional if they think are going to go on an 18 month hiatus and thing they are going to make $12-$13 billion in revenue again. They will not. And to be super frank - the game is pretty boring when compared to college football, NFL, or even the NBA (hate to admit it), if I didn't bet on this **** I wouldn't even watch it. MLB will completely destroy itself if there is a hiatus to the degree that they can't begin to understand. It would be like a nuclear bomb dropped on the sport, clearly they are all too dumb (owners and players ) to realize. I can't see any way there isn't a work stoppage. Going to be MLB Armageddon.

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  Simon Khalaf (@Simonkhalaf) reported 18 minutes ago

  I have got two words: AOL TimeWarner #FAIL

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  Wu (@Das_Wu1) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Gpersonobserver @woofknight You're old. 😬 I missed the AOL address (could had have one, but didn't), never used a water bed or paper mat (what was that for???) and had no checkbook (paid mostly cash).

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  eeemas (@eeemas1) reported 26 minutes ago

  @GlobeLife **** **** **** you and your ******* email spam ads on AOL

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  theRinga𝕏 (@theRingaX) reported 28 minutes ago

  @h_e_p_56 @rationalaxiom I ran a lawn/snow/leaves company made $14.4M by selling the software & web design so that when AOL dialup was going people could see an ad for a service near them. Simple HTML I was 17 sitting in business class Junior year and this fool great guy trying to tell me?