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.
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.
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.
Same, but my original Hotmail account is long lost. I still have the one I made around 2000 though.
RIP suckitdown@hotmail
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.
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.
Youtube. It’s roughly 20 years old.
I can’t access the YT account I opened in 2006, despite knowing the password, because i changed my phone number
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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
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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 think my Mail account. ~23 to 25 years
Apparently there are dozens of us still using Hotmail. 24 years strong!
Hotmail is what I use to sign up to things that I don’t want to get emails from
My RuneScape account
I got my Gmail in 2005, and still heavily use it.
I want to run my own email, but I have soo much tied to it that I’m having trouble knowing where to start…
Maybe my Gmail account. I made it to play Club Penguin. I still use it when signing up for things.
I have some old forum accounts but I don’t use them anymore. I also had a Minecraft account from before the Mojang and Microsoft migrations. That’s gone now. :(
My League of Legends and Steam accounts are old too.
Year one Steam account, even has a unique profile badge. It’s a little over 20 years old. I only made it because I bought a copy of CS: Condition Zero, and it was needed to play online.
Hotmail from 1996
E-mail account circa 1994.
EDIT: I just checked. My Amazon account goes back to 1995 for a solid second place.
Gmail since 2002 or something. Steam account if emails don’t count.
