Ask Lemmy

I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this "buying shit on the internet" thing wasn't going to be a scam.

My somethingawful forum account is 24.

I still have my AOL account from the mid-90s. It uses my oldest handle, a nickname from when I was a kid. I still use that email as a spam address, for when I have to provide an email address for some passing thing.

My email address is 26 years old.

The wayback machine has a snapshot of my personal Age of Empires 2 and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds fan site from October 2002. Digging around a bit, the site and its forum must have been online since at least August of the same year.

The oldest account that's still in use is a forum account from September 2003. Last post with that account was two weeks ago. The community is not as active as it used to be but we still do in-person meetups at least twice a year.

I've been looking for my first Usenet post in 1990, found a few close to the first, but not (yet) the first.

I would not be surprised if there are older posts predating the internet, stored on the Hobby Computer Club FIDO mirrors .. assuming that they are still in existence.

Hotmail from 1998.

I'll probably still have some accounts on obscure forums I can't remember. But something I still use fairly regularly is my Human Paladin in World of Warcraft, he's almost old enough to drink and drive (not at the same time).

I still maintain a Gmail account from their beta test days. I had to get an invite. 2003 or 4ish? Don't use it for much anymore, but I still have it.

My livejournal account, my email, and my website are all of an age, though the website is oldest. But my submissions on Z2 are my oldest artifacts on an active website.

Probably my Runescape account, just hit 21 years.

My wizard 101 account probably

an account from July of 2001 in what then used to be a counter-strike forum. it still exists and has an active user base but luckily has been taken to private mode.
i don’t think even 5% of the active users still play CS.

Just to add some perspective and context to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names

I think the oldest account I can still get into is on 3wheelerworld.com. I still get my birthday email from them every year.

I have some Usenet posts from the late 90s that are still there. My oldest actively maintained internet presence is probably my LinkedIn account, which I registered in 2008.

Does Angelfire keep websites up after 30 years of no activity?

My 24 year old DeviantArt account, probably. Don't know what I had before that.

There's a Pokemon fan forum that I originally joined around 2004 I believe. They've had a relaunch since then, so my current account is "only" from 2009 though. I'm still ocassionally active on there, along with like 5 other users.

The oldest one I still use regularly is probably my Steam account which is 17 years old (as of today actually).

My steam account is OG, circa 2003. September 13, 2003. 22 years of service badge. Use it every day.

I have a 26 year old Whirlpool (an Australian broadband forum) account. It was made in 2000.

If you count Usenet, that goes back 30 years to 1996. It's not technically the web, but the archives can be found on the web

Pretty sure its my Neopets, I set it up in my dad's office before we even got internet at home

My somethingawful account is early 2000's. I can still get into my gamefaqs account too which iirc is late 90s.