AOL outages and service status in Shelton, Washington

Problems in the last 24 hours in Shelton, Washington

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) reported 48 seconds ago

  My Aunt Jane has had the same AOL email address since 1997 and is using ChatGPT to help her redesign her kitchen.

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  jrat (@pizzaxyz) reported 2 minutes ago

  @DylanMcD8 I had one and it was the hottest thing my junior year. My school had just gotten WiFi and they hadn’t blocked aol instant messenger. I’d still have it if some dude hadn’t broken in my house :(

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  Dark Skies (@DarkSkiesNE) reported 5 minutes ago

  Data Centers have been around for a long time... The commercial internet & World Wide Web created demand for always-on servers & interconnection. Early internet exchange points such as MAE-East in Northern Virginia (Metropolitan Area Exchange–East), established in 1992, was the first non-governmental Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in the United States. It served as a physical meeting point where early commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) could interconnect & exchange traffic directly rather than routing everything through distant or government-controlled networks. This peering model reduced costs & latency & became a foundational piece of the commercial Internet. America Online’s presence in the region, plus cheap land near Dulles Airport, available fiber & proximity to Washington, D.C. & DARPA (which had funded ARPANET), made Loudoun County/Ashburn attractive. Equinix, founded in 1998, built one of the region’s first dedicated commercial data centers to serve AOL & others, pioneering the colocation model. Companies rented space, power, cooling & connectivity instead of building their own facilities. Similar “carrier hotels” & interconnection hubs emerged in cities such as New York & Los Angeles. The late-1990s dot-com boom accelerated construction of larger purpose-built facilities. The subsequent bust left unused space that later operators filled.

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  Pixisass (@pixisass) reported 9 minutes ago

  @DrDaymarcus I did not know that AOL had dial up service until 2025. Sources?

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  Jeremy Cherry (@CHERRY2TIMES) reported 12 minutes ago

  @latimes Yep the failed Mapquest MapQuest was the original online mapping site, launched in nineteen ninety-six by a spin-off from a printing company’s cartography division. It went public, then AOL bought it in two thousand, for about one point one billion dollars. That was the peak. Google Maps launched in two thousand five and ate its lunch — free, faster, better satellite imagery. AOL sold MapQuest to AOL’s own parent in two thousand ten for about one hundred seventy million, a fraction of what they’d paid. It still exists as a stripped-down site, but it’s a ghost of what it was.

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  Deeby🇺🇸 (@deebyman) reported 13 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Who ******** uses Mapquest still, they must use AOL also

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  Sextant (@simcity31) reported 17 minutes ago

  @jukan05 I read the beginning of this and knew it’s garbage, written with a conclusion in mind and fillers to get there. Comparing token value to internet subscription is ludicrous. The value of the internet obv is beyond the freaking $50 you paid AOL or whatever ISP. The same for mobile

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  joubalspacker (@joubalspacker) reported 17 minutes ago

  @thenarr47271717 @Bit_Faced @theswansjr Your analogy is a bit off Current Bitcoin is not 'The Internet' but more akin to the walled garden of America Online capable of serving only a select few... AOL was consumed by the wider permissionless network that served everybody... If BTC can only serve the masses via custodians it will be no different than a CBDC => It will be outcompeted by a freer money

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  Ian Jacobs (@WSoxPovertyFran) reported 18 minutes ago

  @chisportsross He’s on the spectrum, ain’t nothing going on in that head of his, but put basketball through hoop. Listening to AOL dial up noises as his hype track. All that to say it’s entirely not just believable, but likely that he was too stupid to understand a single thing going on.

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  Olivier Groot (@OlivierGroot) reported 20 minutes ago

  @theamelia___ 18 but only as there was no AOL in NL and a waterbed is something I never understood