AOL outages and service status in Ferndown, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Ferndown, England

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Ferndown and nearby locations:

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  Lee (Pilchard) Stacey (@LStacey) reported 48 minutes ago from Bournemouth, England

  @jowyang 1. AOL still exists? 2. Has it stopped being evil since the rebrand? 3. Who gives a ****?

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  JP (@SorceryPelvic) reported 3 minutes ago

  @byoanarchy I will admit I was a "bad" student but they locked me in the server(aol dial up) closet for a month until my mom found out and almost burned the place down.

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  Nyadnar#17 (@Nyadnar17) reported 5 minutes ago

  @LitterboxComics I was a new dad trying to research way to help my wife. Been trolling the depths of the internet for fun since AOL was a thing. I was not prepared for the deprivation and inhumanity I found in online parenting forums.

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  Ragh Pandragon (@RaghPandragon) reported 7 minutes ago

  The truth is stranger. Long ago in the 90's there was still magic in the world every time you wanted to get on the internet you had to electrocute one fairy. Just one. Unfortunately disconnects were an issue. Slowly, one connection at a time, we fed all of the magic creatures into the gaping maw of oblivion to power our ICQ chats and AOL instant messengers. At least until Human Energy Update 3.9 Service Pack 2. Now every time you log in you just lose a little bit of your own soul, no fairy deaths required.

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  UltraMan (@RZVLAZ) reported 10 minutes ago

  @washingtonpost AOL dialup internet is number one internet service provider again. What a time to be alive!

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  Paul Moore (@ftlpaul8) reported 14 minutes ago

  @AOL : WARNING - If forced to upgrade to paid subscription to “reset” password, you will not be able to return to “free” plan, even if you block future charges on your credit card. They charge you anyway. Call them: you hold for an hour. Then they say they’ll fix it, but don’t!

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  Dark Skies (@DarkSkiesNE) reported 16 minutes ago

  @LibertyPDX1 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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  Lawrence L. Wood (@LLawrence74685) reported 17 minutes ago

  @brockpierson Read a tech history of AOL and you might get a historical education of the internet service business and it's startup.

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  Rakesh Agrawal (@RakeshSFNYC) reported 19 minutes ago

  Beyond the usual senior leadership problems at AOL that doomed Mapquest, there was another: channel conflict. Mapquest had a LOB that was store locators. They would sell widgets to retailers and other businesses that they could put on their own sites. Split personalities like that are always tough. When one side is paying the bills (store locator) it's hard to ship the future.

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  FlandoCalrissian (@FlandoCalrissan) reported 21 minutes ago

  @theamelia___ 19. Never had an AOL address

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  Tai (@TaiSmitty2) reported 21 minutes ago

  @MapQuest Holy ****!!! Does Netscape still exist too? What about AOL?