AOL outages and service status in Johnston, Rhode Island

Problems in the last 24 hours in Johnston, Rhode Island

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

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

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  Deadair Dennis Maler (@DeadairDennis) reported 8 minutes ago from Providence, Rhode Island

  @bmoredownbeats I’m “sent AOL IMs via SMS text” years old. And I couldn’t continue reading b. Too many typos in their headlines. Such a bad publication.

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  Tim (@montefisto13) reported 29 minutes ago from Providence, Rhode Island

  @13banger83 @MrCumbria80 @davemeltzerWON Time Warner that owned them . The AOL deal wasn’t finalized until a little over a month before WCW was sold. I’m sure the 24 months when the deal was being worked out didn’t help but AOL was buying a 150+ billion dollar company. The already failing WCW wasn’t a huge factor

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Qiang Bai (@qiangthesuper) reported 7 minutes ago

  AOL was the first time I realized that a business could systematically exploit human weakness and make money by misleading customers. At the time, I was still a student. Out of curiosity, I subscribed to AOL. In reality, I already had access to the internet through a PPP modem, so I didn’t need AOL at all. But they offered a “first month free” promotion, and during registration, I had to provide my bank account details. I completely forgot about it. I never used the service, since I continued using my own internet connection. A few months later, I accidentally discovered that I had been charged $9.95 every month. As a student, that was not a trivial amount. I contacted AOL customer service. They didn’t argue or explain — they immediately terminated the service. Which, to me, showed they knew exactly what they were doing — and that this was not an isolated case.

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  Michael Ziarko 🇵🇱 (@Michael_Ziarko) reported 9 minutes ago

  @vicdibitetto Too bad AOL doesn’t give out free CD-ROMS anymore

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  EarningsEdge (@EarnEdgeOnly) reported 10 minutes ago

  @JonErlichman @Ritholtz Wow, never knew AOL was that huge back then!

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  deborah norris (@normnorris) reported 12 minutes ago

  Or AOL for that matter. Never down. People laugh at me for using my vintage address but it works.

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  Mr_Wabb (@Mr_Wabb) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Seven_of_7_ Puhlease, I need something with at least 14400 bps modem & free AOL status disk Appreciate the help tho

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  exQUIZitely 🕹️ (@exQUIZitely) reported 13 minutes ago

  AOL was once worth more than Nvidia, McDonald's, Apple, Amazon, General Motors, Starbucks, Adobe, Nokia, and Disney - combined! It was the world's #1 Internet Service Provider and mailed a billion free trial CDs. You'd find them tucked into cereal boxes, magazines, and airplane seat pockets. At one point, half of all CDs produced on Earth are AOL discs. Once the biggest merger in history (AOL/Time Warner), now a mere glimpse on the radar...

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  TANK 🥫 (@Anon_Whale_) reported 14 minutes ago

  @ehtreasurer No launches on aol anymore . How bout that ? Why is no one launching coins on that **** platform . Why is there no volume ? Why is no one engaging with aol tweets ? Dam you must be the dumbest person alive or you are part of the scam . I’ve never seen anyone get rugged and congratulate the team like you did with revolution. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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  Rhiyddun (@rhiyddun) reported 14 minutes ago

  @nikitabier perhaps I'm just being a nostalgic boomer dinosaur, but back when it was uunet and BBS's like BIX or AOL, and nobody got paid, you just said what you said and the various communities policed their own, tight or loose. The whole alt. tree was a bit surreal, but by and large it was real discussion, sharing of info, etc. without very many of these constant influencer flame wars for clix and a dozen reposts of something only a little further down in my feed. Now we add a whole attack vector on sanity with the short form videos Elon has said rot your brain. I don't need to bother grokadoodle and ask if there's a pattern.

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  STFU Donny (@DLMarble) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Ric_RTP It’s just to keep people from protesting data centers.. like all things ie. Long distance calls, cell phone minutes, AOL it will vanish or go down to being so nominal that it won’t matter.

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  Today in Tech History (@TodayInTechHist) reported 21 minutes ago

  @chucktodd They were successful because they pivoted so well. They started as an online gaming store for Atari, but learned from each failure and found the real customer need. Learn the AOL origin story in today’s thread