Yahoomail account. Created it in the early 2000s, stopped using it around 2009 when I moved on to newer email providers. I remembered I still had it last year when I got an emai on my recovery email that they will be deleting my account if I don’t login. I somehow was still able to recover it and login after 15 years. Now I just login whenever I get a notification of inactivity. I don’t actually use it for anything anymore.
1996 Hotmail. Created as a throwaway with no link to my work. Still working as a spam dump.
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My RuneScape account
Wikipedia user account from 2002.
My main email account, which is from the year 2000.
My memory is terrible, and it doesn’t help that I have the world record for the most sites having signed up for (a very nerdy bragging right I have), but it has to be something like one of the Pokemon MMO’s, RuneScape, or Furaffinity (RIP Dragoneer). Most of the old places I’ve been to are gone one way or another, for example I haven’t heard from Postopia since the E3 disaster.
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
Oh… RIP 170538332 (I forgot the password for my first one and had to create a second one, and for some reason that’s the number that stuck with me)
My Yahoo Mail was opened the first week of January, 1998. Would be my Hotmail account, but I made my Yahoo account because Microsoft bought Hotmail, and stopped using Hotmail
ebay. 1998
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.
I went through the same path. Gmail came to mind first, then eBay, then a MUD I haven’t actually played in ages but double check that my account is there now and then.
Same. Been using my ebay account since early 1999, literally a quarter of a century. I don’t remember if it was the very first, but I know one of my early purchases was a parallel port to ethernet adapter, so I could take my already aging 486SLC/33 laptop to campus and get it on the internet using the Arachne browser. The SLC was basically a 386 on steroids, and it couldn’t handle both Windows and Interwebs. I paid for the first few items by mailing off a money order.
Hell yeah. What MUD?
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iTools > .Mac > MobileMe > iCloud. Still on the original address. January 2000.
GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.
