I bought a gmail invite from a message board. If this sequence of words makes sense to you, you’re old too.
TIL G-Mail was invite only back then. I am too GenZ to undersand this shit.
:-(
Shiiit, actually that does make sense. I remember when Gmail gave you 10 invites for new accounts and you didn’t even get them right away. You had to earn them over time. So yeah, invites were regularly sold on the message boards I used to frequent.
Ditto - oldest email I still have in archive is from Nov. 2006 so at least that old
My Hotmail account, which I’ve had since high school. Oldest email in there is from 2002, but I think I opened it up in 2000.
Same, but my original Hotmail account is long lost. I still have the one I made around 2000 though.
RIP suckitdown@hotmail
Same here, made one in 1999, the MSN messenger days were wild.
Probably my 2004 Gmail account, but that’s pushing the definition of “still use somewhat frequently”. I do still have my email forwarded to my current address, but most senders have been updated with my current address.
I lost control of my Hotmail, AIM, ICQ accounts years ago.
I still have my ICQ. That’s one number burned into my brain.
Didn’t ICQ recently shut the service down? Thought I saw a headline along those lines recently.
Did they? I only log in like every six months or so. :(
Edit: yep. June 24, 2024. RIP 8833052
Somehow I can never seem to forget my ICQ number. 28493804. I have no idea why that’s always in my brain, but it is.
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I think my AIM account is still technically active even though they shut it down. Don’t know what they did with all the accounts.
Usenet account from 1987. And no, I’m not going to post what it is.
My original Gmail account. I’ve had it since Gmail was in closed beta.
My Steam account is older though. Fucking thing is old enough to drink now (2003; from when I first had to use it for Counter-Strike when they took down the WON servers).
Any other 21 year old Steam accounts wanna play some Ragdoll Kung-Fu?
Oh man I’ve not dusted off ragdoll Kung Fu in a very long time
I’ve got a 20 year old Gmail account that I use when I need to sign up for something.
A four letter .com domain name I registered in 2003. Supposedly worth $5000-6000 presently.
Or my eBay account I’ve had since 2001.
A word in the dictionary?
(Don’t click that)
Pretty sure that’d be worth much, much more than mine :)
Steam account. Made in 2007, back then i used for a random game i bought having a cd key; but I still use it frequently.
Yeah steam for me also, back in 2004 so about to hit that 20 year badge. I technically had an older steam account with the OG HL, CS, and DoD on it, but my current account had HL2 and CSS on it so I stuck with that. I think it’s even older than my Gmail account tbh.
Next month my steam account will be 21.
Created it shortly after steam launch.
I had to wait over night in a download queue to download the stream client bundled with cs 1.6 (which then also took a couple hours)
I had steam before I had an email (with my father’s email). I was half the age I am now
I’ve had my Hotmail amount for like 25 years
How much is too much Hotmail?
Hotmail was one of my very first email accounts but I believe Microshaft had already bought it by the time I signed up. I think I was about 12 or 13.
My AOL email. I didn’t actually make it, my Dad did and I was so young I literally don’t remember a time without it. I still check it despite migrating most of my accounts away.
Youtube. It’s roughly 20 years old.
Probably slightly less, Youtube came out publicly in 2005. But good call, that might be mine too. Or the Hotmail account I used back then.
I can’t access the YT account I opened in 2006, despite knowing the password, because i changed my phone number
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Copyright-strike the video and they’ll delete it without checking. And since you can’t log in to contest it, it’ll stay down
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I joined a forum about 30 years ago, and I am still a regular. I can’t say the exact date I joined, nor can the forum admins, as things like that were not tracked back then. Even them having my email was a way later add-on.
ebay. 1998
Same, but it isn’t my oldest.
Gmail since 2002 or something. Steam account if emails don’t count.
Edit: Wow account could be older than steam account. I honestly can’t remember.
Edit2: Yep, wow account is a 4 years older than my steam. Turns out I lost my first steam account that did not really have any games on it and instead of recovering it I just registered a new one. Doing this research of my own history was a questionable use of my evening but apparently necessary to get it out of my head.
My steam account might be older than my current email, come to think of it.
Possibly my Hotmail, although I’m not 100% sure when I opened it, and I converted it to an Outlook email when that became an option.
Most of the sites I used to use have shut down or migrated to new systems, so my oldest account is most likely my ModTheSims account opened in 2008. I do still use it whenever I’m in the mood for some Sims 2 retail therapy.
