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pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.comCan you start
on Mondaytonight 😏myfullnameanddateofbirth@hotmail.com
The suggestions for email addresses if yours was already taken used to include what you entered plus the last two digits of your birth year. I wonder how many people born in 1988 followed that advice and now deeply regret it.
Pretty sure just yesterday I saw a Lemmy comment bemoaning that 88 had been co-opted for exactly this reason.
this was already a thing way before emails became a thing
Wait what are all you talking about? 88 just means shit like hugs and kisses or good luck.
“Cultural significance” > “in Neo-nazism”
The link you gave provides you with the answer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_neo-Nazism
Let’s not let neonazis take culturally common shit like the okay sign, thumbs up, or literal numbers please.
Let’s seize these concepts back, comrades! We will redistribute them back to the people!
I’ve been using the same email address since I was 14
I still have and use an email I created in 1995.
The first part of my email has remained unchanged since about then. I’ve gone through various services though. AOL, Earthlink, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and now Proton.
I also have a first.last@gmail address I keep for anything more formal (resume).
Bet you get a ton of email intended for other people?
“what is this ‘email address’ it’s asking for”
“dunno, just write your name and then @aol.com”
Tmy name is just common enough to never be available anywhere, until Outlook.com addresses were new. Got firstlast@outlook magically. Really just one guy in Australia though it seems that doesn’t realize he’s not getting any of those emails. I figure that his actual email is probably something like first.last@outlook and he misses the dot sometimes.
I have an uncommon but not unique name and I have firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I know, others with my name usually include a middle initial in their email address but they sometimes forget it. I’ve gotten family event plans, car maintenance reminders, digital receipts, contractor quotes, and even once added to a daycare group (that one I did reach out to the coordinator to let them know and then removed myself from the group).
Last year my email address - initialslastname@gmail.com - was added to the group list for a bunch of old ladies in England. First I was advised of my spot on the flower roster for the church, then I got someone’s holiday photos, a reminder that Gerald’s birthday was on the 9th, a lovely eCard congratulating me on my wedding anniversary… on and on.
I tried deleting them but they kept coming, and I worried about all the cool stuff initialslastname was missing out on. I sent an email to the whole group saying stop it & got a heartfelt apology and promises to correct it, but the emails have kept on coming - they all have me in their address books now. If I wasn’t so lazy it would be a good incentive to move fully to my proton address.
I made one for both my kids that now I think is silly and I wonder if they’ll ever change it.
I did the same thing for my step-kids. firstlast@gmail
My mum also made one for me when i was a kid, I never did change it even like 15 years later.
Unfortunately, my first email address was @geocities.com.
Godspeed, you ugly collection of websites.
Same. deepshitjunkie@geocities.com to be precise.
Mine is @aol.com and I’m afraid I’m gonna have to change emails for every single service I’ve ever used one day 🫠
Most or all e-mail services allow you to create e-mail aliases, which are alternate e-mail addresses that deliver to the same mailbox and use the same login.
Wait what do you mean you created a new mail, is that allowed?
No, the Internet people are coming for them right now.
It is possible and even good to change your email. I wrote an email service called Port87, and changed my email twice during the process. It really sucks how much work it is, but it’s worth it. Every email service that’s been around for decades just sucks. They survive on the fact that it’s hard to change your email.
Yeah the hardest part is going around and updating your address with sites you use.
Every time I’ve done it, I’ve also put an auto forward on my old address, and a label or other alert for anything that comes through from the old so I can go update it or block that address from auto forwarding.
My email is only 30 years old because it was initially created solely to keep my everquest guild data handy
Roadkill4diner, used for years until I needed to be more professional
Me using my Xbox 360 username for life. I can’t simply bring myself to change it now.
Everyday I am thankful that my parents chose my email for me as a kid.
my parents chose my email too, then i went ahead and made a new and used that
@hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, my own host, @gmail.com, @protonmail.com. Seems like I make a new one every decade or so.
Almost exactly the same, except my proton is @proton.me.
And I’ve have my Hotmail since a year or two after it started, so almost 30 years.
