AOL introduced many households to the World Wide Web for the first time when its dial-up service launched decades ago.

Both Yahoo Mail and AOL mail users started reporting issues accessing their emails with reports streaming into the outage website Down Detector starting around 7:30 a.m. Pacific Thursday morning.

Yahoo Mail and AOL's email service appeared to have crashed on Thursday. Users reported a "temporary Error: 15" message that kept them from accessing their email through Yahoo or AOL, which are part ...