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I don't want to imply Bending Spoons is this awesome, as I know nothing much about them (except that they named their company after a weird scam, lol), but there's a pretty reasonable principle that might apply here:

If our service goes down for any reason, uh... wait until Monday afternoon, then try again. (Sorry!)

Like, who would die if AOL was down for 36 hours?

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I think they’re actually named after the scene in the matrix where the little kid (and then Neo) can bend the spoon with their mind.

Oh! LOL that's admittedly cooler than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Geller

I've heard this name on the radio in GTA2 for years but I never looked up the name. Fascinating.

Considering AOL's business model was to keep old folks paying for dialup, and once they moved off of dialup continue paying for access to the AOL portal, a good chunk of their user base may already be dead and still being billed.

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