Email account from the year 2000. Which is TWENTY SIX YEARS AGO.
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I have some guitar tabs I posted from the mid 90s I think
I think that website I made for the cern guy is still around.
I still have a Game Faqs account.
I have a URL that's 30 years old this year and it's still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
Funny thing that, a personal homepage, I first created one 31 years ago, at a time when it was rather unusual to have one. I still have one, and now it has become rather unusual to have one once again.
Thats pretty cool !
Thanks! 😁
Probably my ModTheSims account from 2005.
Probably my first account on newgrounds, must've made it back in 2003.
I lost the password to the email I registered with and with that any chances for password recovery of said account and a bunch of other stuff of my teenage years.
Probably my last.fm account, was made in 2005. Everything else before that has died a death, either because I changed services like with gmail or because the service is no more, like with ICQ etc.
I recently started using IRC again but had a almost 2 decade long break between so I don't think that counts.
My old Yahoo account had emails from 98 or so, I had some AOL content starting in about 94 and Prodigy before that. Before that everything i did was on multiple BBS's and don't think any are still going, the last one i looked at was back in 2008 or so and they still had the BBS archives up on a web page.
Skyrama
several of my passwords 🥺
ICQ.
Wait, they’re gone‽
Uh-oh!!!!
I have a hotmail address that I still regularly use for silly stuff. The earliest email I can find under it is from March 2006.
One of my Yahoo addresses is from 2005
I got my first Gmail address through an invite during the beta release in late 2004.
I forgot it was invite only! I remember getting an invite to Google's social media. I can't remember what that was called now...
...google's old dejanews archives don't go back as far as my usenet activity, but i doubt i had any old web content which predates where they pick up unless we include legacy media archives like newspaper or television; for that matter, i think a lot of old yearbooks are online now, too...
...anyway, if we're only counting web-first content, i didn't make my first website until like `94 and all my hosts before like 2005 are decades gone by now...
I feel partially responsible for a lot of culture, from certain emojis to certain styles of writing and roleplay, and for that I'm very sorry.
The 90's were a pioneering time on the internet and if you had even a little digital art skill and a good sense of humor, you could quickly create entire movements of proto-memes and humor systems.
being a clown on something awful was really good times
I'll probably still have some accounts on obscure forums I can't remember. But something I still use fairly regularly is my Human Paladin in World of Warcraft, he's almost old enough to drink and drive (not at the same time).
The animations I put on Newgrounds. The Angry Atheist series.
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AA gets in a rocket and goes up to heaven to fight God in a katana battle. In the end they both get killed by Buddha.
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AA shoots up a church service and get taken out by an old lady sucking his face off with a plunger.
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Jesus's Revenge. The Son of God comes for AA. I think he kills him but then gets run over by a drunk driver.
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AA drops a nuke on the Vatican.
the oldest one that I can still log into, probably yahoo mail. late 90s. so probably 28-29 years.
I still maintain a Gmail account from their beta test days. I had to get an invite. 2003 or 4ish? Don't use it for much anymore, but I still have it.
i still use mine to do this day. 25 years of gmail.
My email address is 26 years old.
Online banking since 1999 same bank.
I've been looking for my first Usenet post in 1990, found a few close to the first, but not (yet) the first.
I would not be surprised if there are older posts predating the internet, stored on the Hobby Computer Club FIDO mirrors .. assuming that they are still in existence.
Random question, but did you ever come across Steve Kangas on Usenet?
A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals?
I've been reading about him over the last few months. Really interesting guy. If things had turned out differently, he almost certainly would have ended up a very vocal present day Fediverse user. Who knows, maybe the entire internet might have ended up a little different than it is today. He certainly seemed to be aware of a lot of things that were quietly happening in America that most people wouldn't realize for a few decades.
Not to my recollection. I mainly hung out on the comp.* and alt.best.of.internet groups. Together with another member we wrote the original aboi FAQ.
Edit:
Here's something I wrote about it on another platform:
I never experienced Usenet, but seems like I have been hearing it mentioned more and more lately as the fediverse continues to grow. Never really thought about it being like an email chain of comments.
The early internet required so much more patience and attention just to use it for any reason, let alone as a way to communicate back and forth with other people in real(ish) time. We take it for granted.
I’m no greybeard in comparison to the wizards here, but can still probably log into my webkinz account from 2008. I think they still have a legacy app anyhow lol
I’m sure you can find old forum posts of mine from when I was an internet baby but couldn’t log back in to those, if an account was even required back then lmao
Just to add some perspective and context to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names
Probably my Runescape account, just hit 21 years.
Gosh, yeah, mine must be of a similar vintage. I'm just hearing now that you can get special 10 / 15 year capes as well
My steam account is OG, circa 2003. September 13, 2003. 22 years of service badge. Use it every day.
I would've said Elfwood, since I posted some cringey drawings there in the late 90's. Since Elfwood is closed, remnants of my presence still exist on TOR.N (theonering.net). It was a pre-movie Lord of the Rings fan website, which, amazingly, still has Barliman's chat room. I wonder if my Battle of Fanghorn Forest poem is still there somewhere 🤔
ETA: so in answer I'd say about 28 years old. If you'll excuse me, I need to drink some Ensure and clean my dentures
I think the oldest account I can still get into is on 3wheelerworld.com. I still get my birthday email from them every year.
My somethingawful forum account is 24.
Hotmail from 1998.
I’m with you there. I still have my cringe edgy 1998 Hotmail login that has morphed into the credentials for all my Microslop dealings, I never use it for mail, but I have unfortunately had to give it to people professionally during some azure related training and onsite sales pitches.
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My Yahoo email address is 27 years old.
I have some Usenet posts from the late 90s that are still there. My oldest actively maintained internet presence is probably my LinkedIn account, which I registered in 2008.
The wayback machine has a snapshot of my personal Age of Empires 2 and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds fan site from October 2002. Digging around a bit, the site and its forum must have been online since at least August of the same year. (Edit: if you dig around long enough you'll probably find forum accounts from 2001 or even older but those old phpBB forums usually only have a fraction of their threads preserved).
The oldest thing that's still in use is a forum account from September 2003. Last post with that account was two weeks ago. The community is not as active as it used to be but we still do in-person meetups at least twice a year.
My 24 year old DeviantArt account, probably. Don't know what I had before that. Oh, and my steam account turns 22 this year, I think.
My Yahoo account is 25 years old I think. My first email address.
My yahoo email address, created in the early 2000s. I receive a yearly reminder on my current email that it's about to be deactivated due to inactivity, so I log on to keep it alive. No reason really.
Does Angelfire keep websites up after 30 years of no activity?
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