AOL outages and service status in Renton, Washington

Problems in the last 24 hours in Renton, Washington

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Renton, Washington 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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  ℝ𝕀ℤℤ ℂ𝕆𝕄𝔼𝕋 (@Shr00msy) reported 3 minutes ago

  @manhattanmaker @cavannastan I bet yall roleplayed like you were on AOL chat. Saying **** like “ASL? Hehe”

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  Resident Evil Wiki (@RE_Wiki) reported 7 minutes ago

  Something more lighthearted. How did Claire know Leon’s email to message him in OG CV? When he made her leave at the end of RE2, was he shouting his AOL address? Did he spend his free time in the Army barracks tracking down which university she attended? #REBHfun

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  Sab (@soulsabmarz) reported 8 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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  Brian Cohen (@inthepixels) reported 9 minutes ago

  23. **Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (2008)** — Lost over $18.5 billion nominally, equivalent to over **$20.0 billion** today due to global credit declines and equity write-downs. 24. **Alcatel (2001)** — Suffered massive merger-related write-downs and market destruction during the telecom equipment collapse, crossing the **$20.0 billion** inflation-adjusted threshold. 25. **Swiss Re (2008)** — Incurred tens of billions in asset impairments and structured credit losses during the financial crisis, placing its real-loss event at the **$20.0 billion** inflation-adjusted mark. The Three Eras of Corporate Destruction What stands out is how concentrated these losses are. The Dot-Com and Telecom Collapse (2000–2002) The telecom bubble produced the single greatest concentration of corporate losses ever observed. AOL Time Warner, JDS Uniphase, Qwest, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Vivendi, Alcatel, and NTT all appear on the list. Trillions of dollars in market value evaporated as companies wrote down acquisitions, fiber networks, wireless licenses, and internet-related assets purchased at bubble-era valuations. The Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Credit Suisse, Swiss Re, and Mitsubishi UFJ all suffered enormous losses as mortgage securities, derivatives, and structured credit markets collapsed. Unlike many dot-com write-downs, these losses reflected real capital destruction that threatened the stability of the global financial system. Industry-Specific Collapses General Motors appears three separate times on the list, highlighting decades of structural challenges within the auto industry. United Airlines reflects the severe financial strain associated with bankruptcy and restructuring. Nakheel demonstrates how quickly even seemingly unstoppable real-estate booms can reverse. The Half-Trillion-Dollar Club The four largest losses alone account for nearly $470 billion in inflation-adjusted value destruction: * **AOL Time Warner (2002):** ~$143 billion * **AIG (2008):** ~$128 billion * **JDS Uniphase (2001):** ~$104 billion * **Fannie Mae (2009):** ~$94 billion Combined, these four annual losses destroyed more value than the current market capitalization of many of the world's largest public companies. The lesson from this ranking is simple: the biggest corporate losses rarely occur because a company has a bad quarter or even a bad year. They happen when an entire narrative breaks—whether it is internet mania, telecom euphoria, housing prices that supposedly never fall, or financial engineering that appears risk-free until suddenly it isn't.

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  JackiO (@Jackio49) reported 10 minutes ago

  @AntiLeftMemes 18- never used AOL, never liked waterbeds, although I did sleep on one. lol

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  The Great Gazoo (@flight2q3211) reported 11 minutes ago

  @firstadopter The deal makes total sense to me. Arbitrageurs putting deal likelihood above 50% of going through. Can only make sense to compare to AOL X Time Warner if you think one of FOX or Roku has a bad destiny coming. FOX pays about 6% interest on debt.

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  David Turner (@turner_dav80233) reported 14 minutes ago

  @VerizonSupport the directions I’m given do NOT MATCH my screen. I a sick of the incessant outages and lack of support, I’ll cancel my contract with Verizon and find a provider that actually DOES allow access! AOL in the 90’s was faster!

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  𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧 (@willxcore) reported 17 minutes ago

  @redrum_panda Yea I watched my mom connect to the dial-up, AOL and then look up the Yodas Help website for the games that pointed to the ATI drivers. They thought I was too dumb to do it on my own but it was game over for them.

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  Mario583 (@paper3139) reported 20 minutes ago

  @kmcnam1 This is what email services such as @AOL should offer when all you get is spam nowadays that you never bother to read.

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  Bob Jones (@torus76) reported 23 minutes ago

  @AntiLeftMemes 19, never had an AOL address. I had my own ISP in 1992, with my own email address.