nathanallan Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Just got an email from yahoo saying they are upgrading their service, and it started out saying that I have been a user for 14 years. All that time just slipped past me! Hard to believe that 14 years ago using win 3.11 I signed up for a yahoo mail account. I think that computer was a 486DX100 or something. Might have been a 75mhz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-topdog Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I have had the same email address since 1996 (from one of my TopDog domains) and my personal one since 1999 (my personal name domain). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Wonder007 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I've had mine since 1994. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I've had one since the summer of 2000, at the university from which I got my degree and at which I worked after graduation. I just quit recently, so the e-mail address is going to be taken away sometime soon. Sucks. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I've been using e-mail since 1996, but my present e-mail addresses are only about three years old. I finally got my own domain in 2008, and after I created a new set of addresses for myself, I closed or abandoned all the others. I have a few others through school and work, but they all forward to my personal mailboxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I still have one of my original e-mail accounts. Either it was '96 or '97. I don't use it much anymore since I created a Gmail account a few years back, and now it's primarily there for spam. The other day actually, I looked through some of my oldest emails from it, some from the late '90s. It's interesting to go back that far and see what my writing was like back then, rediscovering different aspects of conversations that my memory had long since forgotten, and remembering people I haven't talked to in over a decade.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 My oldest one is from 2007, and my current one is from 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Before webmail, I went through emails like I went through phone numbers. Then came my Earthlink email, which I had for a couple years. I've had yahoo since about '05, gmail maybe a year later. I don't remember when or why I set up a hotmail account but I did at some point early on. I believe my first email account was set up in 1999. That's ancient history now. Now that I have my own domain, I've added a couple new email addresses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galeforcerm Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 My email and ebay account have been the same since 1999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 My Hotmail address has been the same since 1996/97. I went with Hotmail because my previous email address was attached to my ISP and when they went broke I decided to go with an email site that I reckoned would not go away. I've been a happy Hotmailer ever since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptenmaterial Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 toptenmaterial@yahoo.com from 2004. my very first one, which I lost after not logging in for 30 days, was thewhitestupid@hotmail.com from 1997.... I think I was the first kid at my high school to have an email account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigal Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 My oldest active address is from 1997. My addresses before that were with schools I am no longer in, or ISP's that no longer exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20ohm20 Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I still regularly use the same Hotmail address that I've had since September 1996. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I still got my old rocketmail.com address although it's been absorbed by Yahoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Leach Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 MY first coolest email ever was Who@yahoo.com then I came up with Who@whatthefuck.com dont recall either of the passwords and they are since closed Im sure...... so now I just have a current one from 2 years ago or so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amiman99 Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Mine is from 1996 using dial up on my Amiga 1200 computer with 28.8 Modem with .42bis or something like that, from a local provider. I'm still using it, I can believe that they are still in business. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanallan Posted June 25, 2011 Author Share Posted June 25, 2011 animan99 that is just cool. Love that you are using an Amiga from 96 still on dial up. I wish I could find an Amiga in El Paso. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Kat Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 From 1996 until 2003 all my email addresses were tethered to paid ISP accounts so I didn't get to keep any of those. My current email address though is on a domain owned by a friend, as is a previous one I used before then which I still keep open. The domain is thecowsaysmoo.org. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I think i got a hotmail account since 96 or so, and maybe an email adres from my provider a year before that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I set up a Freenet (remember those?) account around 1994 or 1995. The Freenet has largely morphed into a commercial ISP, but I still use the space to host my website, and my original e-mail address there is still valid (though it is now forwarded to my main, personal account). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Just got an email from yahoo saying they are upgrading their service, and it started out saying that I have been a user for 14 years. All that time just slipped past me! Hard to believe that 14 years ago using win 3.11 I signed up for a yahoo mail account. I think that computer was a 486DX100 or something. Might have been a 75mhz. Yeah, I use Yahoo too. I got the same email, saying I'd been there for 9 years. I don't understand why they have to keep dicking with things. I predict that the "new" Yahoo email will be slower, more difficult to use, and crowd the screen with more unnecessary garbage than is necessary. I suppose they're trying to compete with Google Apps or something. I like "Yahoo Classic" the way it is. The Old People I know who use Yahoo email are going to be in for a rude awakening, soon. I'm sure I'll adapt, but I fail to see the necessity to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I've got one from '95, in use regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 All my really old ones I've long let expire or shut down. The oldest I have now is from February 06, 2003, although I never use it. I think actually logging into it (hotmail) reactivated it or something. I since moved everything to standardized emails: one for family/personal, one for business/academic, and one for online fora like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofrills100 Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I use a hotmail account from 1998 - and I am still using the original password I set up - only 4 digits long! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 My Hotmail address is from 96 as well, before Microsoft bought the company. I see there are a couple of others in the same longevity on that too heh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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