I graduated in 2000 and a buddy bought a domain to host a forum so our friend group could stay in touch before social media took off. We kinda fell off when MySpace, then FB got big, but now that we’ve all abandoned the latter it’s how we stay in touch.
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I love this.
I wish I had this
@dhruv3006 the first time I regisfered this nickname was on PTNet (irc), I still go there time to time to keep it alive, it has over 20 years now
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! 😁
I have a very lonely and hungry neopet somewhere...
I have my Gmail account from early in its beta, probably in 2004. I became a Metafilter member I think in 2003. I got my everything2.com account in the late 90s I think, that might be the earliest I still remember.
several of my passwords 🥺
Let me guess Password123?
at least throw an exclamation mark on there! i’m security-forward!
Crap forgot about that thanks!
Email account from the year 2000. Which is TWENTY SIX YEARS AGO.
ICQ.
Wait, they’re gone‽
Uh-oh!!!!
Been visiting http://outpost10f.com/ccc/ since 1999, and it's still online! It's an HTML based chat site with Star Wars and Star Trek themed rooms.
Still glorious.
Team Internet Paintball from 1994. My member number was TIP#860. Still have the patch on an old set of cammos, if I didn't accidentally get rid of them during one of the many times I've moved over the years.
My active eBay account is from 1999.
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.
I think that website I made for the cern guy is still around.
I still have a Game Faqs account.
An account on Yahoo Mail from around 1997. Still logging in once in a while.
same, not sure when i started it though. might be more like 2006 for this particular account.
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.
I have some guitar tabs I posted from the mid 90s I think
Probably my ModTheSims account from 2005.
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.
Skyrama
Online banking since 1999 same bank.
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).
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.
Just to add some perspective and context to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names
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.
My email address is 26 years old.
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.
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My steam account is OG, circa 2003. September 13, 2003. 22 years of service badge. Use it every day.
the oldest one that I can still log into, probably yahoo mail. late 90s. so probably 28-29 years.
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
I think the oldest account I can still get into is on 3wheelerworld.com. I still get my birthday email from them every year.
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.
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