I bought a gmail invite from a message board. If this sequence of words makes sense to you, you're old too.
I got an invite to Gmail when I was in university. Sadly I was at inbox zero for quite some time so I don’t have the Welcome to Gmail email anymore. It’s more than likely my oldest active account. I do have a Neowin account that still works from 2002 but I don’t frequent anymore. Macrumors is my most active old forum account, that’s from 2005. I had an ancient AIM and ICQ account but there’s no way I could remember the account details.
:-(
TIL G-Mail was invite only back then. I am too GenZ to undersand this shit.
A pattern they repeated with Google Wave and Google+, neither of which took off, partly because there weren't enough people using them.
I genuinely thought G+ could have been a FB killer, if they hadn't made it hard to join.
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.
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
Usenet account from 1987. And no, I'm not going to post what it is.
What's "on" there? What can it be compared to at this time?
Usenet was the golden age of Reddit for its time. Before the binary newsgroups drowned everything out and web 1.0 captured everyone's attention.
In a way, it was a lot like Lemmy. Federated servers all inter-exchanged posts to a giant, global message board of newsgroups (roughly analogous to a subreddit or Lemmy community). Anyone could create a newsgroup and there were a lot of them.
When it was good, it fostered the same kind of genuine conversation that Reddit and Lemmy do when they're at their best. It was full of memes, too, although that word didn't exist then.
Usenet? Most new media can be found there. The most copyright-contentious files are not on there for long so most folks use automated downloaders.
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?
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Nice try, Narc
Hotmail. 1997.
That still gets used? Probably my eBay account from 2000/2001. First thing I bought from there was a 33.6k external modem lol.
Edit: No, I take that back. I have an even older account on a MUD server from like 1996. It doesn't get used regularly, but I do log in every 6-7 months, randomly, and go on a few runs.
My hotmail account.
Signed up for it in the closed beta way before Microsoft bought it, was fucking pissed when they did.
It's my 2fa for most of my games and the emergency email for my other emails.
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.
I opened my first Gmail account during the private beta (2004). It's not my daily driver account, but I still use it for government stuff like taxes and healthcare. It kinda blows my mind that it's 20 years old.
Nothing really, I try to switch account and delete old ones every now and again. My oldest account is my bank account.
Hotmail from 1996
I own a 6 digit steam id (500k).
I ain't much but it's honest work.
Former Hotmail, currently Outlook account. Since 2001
My Google accounts have been around for a couple of decades now, my Microsoft account about the same amount of time.
Though actually I think the Xbox live part of my account predates the rest of it—iirc they weren't originally linked.
My steam account is about the same age too come to think of it, I remember getting it before hl2 was released
eBay and Amazon are older too actually, maybe made those back in 2002/2003
Does my online banking count? I've potentially had that even longer
Probably my yahoo mail account. I've mostly transitioned off it, but a few things still come to it and it predates even my gmail account (which I barely ever use either). Apple ID's Hide My Email ability has basically rendered all the other ones pointless though since I can just generate a new fake email address whenever I want to register for something fishy. I wish phone numbers worked the same way.
Yahoo mail. Although I did literally just delete it off my phone because it was complaining that I didn't check my SPAM messages frequently enough.
Apple iTools @mac email address from 2000, eBay since some time in 98, but they don't show records that far back.
I guess technically that'd be the email account at my employer where I started some decades ago. Before Google and their Gmail was a thing, anyway. Or, livejournal, I guess. ...MySpace... Oof, AOL... Usenet, maybe...
Gah. I'm old.
The oldest email in my Gmail account is from March of 2006, but I used to delete regularly so the account is probably a couple years older than that.
I have an undernet from 94-95. If you don't know what that is...
My gmail address with my exact full name I registered about 18 years ago by invite only.
eBay is my oldest, not sure when exactly, 2001-2002-2003 something like that.
Next is my Something Awful forums account from 2005.
YouTube account, since 2009.
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