I bought a gmail invite from a message board. If this sequence of words makes sense to you, you’re old too.
:-(
Ditto - oldest email I still have in archive is from Nov. 2006 so at least that old
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.
Mine was from a chain of random people posting their invite links on Slashdot. It feels like ancient history now.
I still have a Slashdot account from 2009. Haven’t been on there much in years though. Google would probably be my oldest actively used account as I still use the one I set up with the initital invite.
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 yahoo.
All my friends and I used to have Yahoo! email addresses. But for some reason around 2010 almost everyone’s accounts seemed to be getting compromised and sending weird messages around to their contacts… and now I don’t know anyone with a Yahoo!
I never figured out what was going on and why Yahoo in particular seemed so affected by it.
mines for spam too.
Same, but my original Hotmail account is long lost. I still have the one I made around 2000 though.
RIP suckitdown@hotmail
Same. I use mine to log into things that require an email so they can spam you.
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.
Uh-oh! Mine was long forgotten.
Usenet account from 1987. And no, I’m not going to post what it is.
X-No-Archive: yes
What’s “on” there? What can it be compared to at this time?
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.
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.
I haven’t actually used that account other than to verify it is still there on my old university’s servers, in almost 20 years. I probably should try it out again.
I’ve got a 20 year old Gmail account that I use when I need to sign up for something.
probably neopets, can’t let them starve.
My Neopets account got wiped shortly before they said they’d stop wiping accounts. I’d lost the password and recovery email ages ago though.
I have a Yahoo email account from the mid-late 90’s…
Same. It would have been 1997 or later.
Mine’s about the same age, 97 or 98. Log into it very infrequently but it still works.
Everything else I recall having an account on from the late 90s no longer exists.
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.
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.
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.
Hell yeah. What MUD?
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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
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
I’m in a similar boat. I have the password and I even have access to the recovery email, but because I have an old phone number, I’m locked out. It’s infuriating because I have a video I want to delete but can’t access anymore.
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
Not a bad idea, thanks for the idea!
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?
… are you me? What this guy said is also my answer.
Xiao xiao?!?
ebay. 1998
Same, but it isn’t my oldest.
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.
Former Hotmail, currently Outlook account. Since 2001
A hotmail account from before microsoft bought it
Yep. Same. I can’t think of anything older that is still operating.
