What's your oldest email address?

I have an AOL one I still use when I was 18 years old. My email is seriously 18 years old

. lOf course I have a professional one now that I created 5+ years ago. I'm just curious, mine is closing in on 20 years!

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Devilsbane

My oldest email is around 10-12 years, but I only use it for some older things. It is mostly spam.

My current address is about 5 or 6 years old.

rwmidl

I had an AOL account from 1995 - 2000something so it was probably close to 10 years. My current one has only been around since 2007/2008 (I purchased a domain before my wife and I got married. My grand scheme was to have a website where people could get our wedding info. That never happened).

angel.oa

2007, not that old but still

ptilsen

I've had an MSN account since 2002. I don't think I've used it since about 2005 or 2006. Somewhere in there I got a yahoo for professional matters and Gmail for personal, back when the beta was relatively new.

nycid

i have a yahoo account that is close to 16 years old. It's got about 40K+ spam emails in there currently. Occasionally when I sign up for something I'll go and clean it out...

erpadmin

Out of the ones I currently use, my yahoo account. After that, I have two .edu accounts that I have from WGU and NJIT that I use for different purposes (both of them are powered by gmail) plus a gmail account that I opened up just for my android phone. But my yahoo account is primetime. I don't even bother with the email account from my personal ISP (I learned awhile ago never to be too attached to that....at least with yahoo, I'll have that for life.)

Whiteout

Hmm lets see here.

AOL = 1998ish
Yahoo = 2000ish
Comcast = 2002 (Got cable!)
CWU.edu = 2006
Google = 2008ish
Gebbey.com (my domain) = 2009
us.af.mil = 2010
WGU.edu = 2011

So their is my exciting tale of email address's! I use the last 4 accounts fairly often, the rest are full of thousands of spam. I use them when I have to sign up for something I don't want bogging down one of my active accounts.

ChooseLife

Hotmail, opened in 1998, still active (but not primary)

Reseven

Hotmail - around 2000

Slowhand

We had a 'family address' when my parents bought a computer back in the 90's, I believe it was from AOL. The first email address that was truly my own a hotmail address I still use to this day. I believe I signed up for it back in 1998 or 1999, I can't quite remember.

jody7734

I still have an active aol address from 1992 when I was also 18. I was so cool among my geek friends with my V.Fast 28.kbps modem.

cyberguypr

I still have my original Rocketmail account from 1995. Even after Yahoo acquired them in 1997 I was able to keep my id and all emails.

ColbyG

Probably my first GMail account opened in '04. I had a hotmail account which would have been much older, but I'm sure it's long been pruned.

SteveLord

I have my AOL that is about 15 years old now (had since I was 13). I remember when you'd get email...and there was almost no spam out there so it was almost always from someone you knew.

N2IT

SteveLord wrote: »

I have my AOL that is about 15 years old now (had since I was 13). I remember when you'd get email...and there was almost no spam out there so it was almost always from someone you knew.

That's funny but true.

Slowhand

SteveLord wrote: »

I have my AOL that is about 15 years old now (had since I was 13). I remember when you'd get email...and there was almost no spam out there so it was almost always from someone you knew.

It's funny how it goes, and it pops up on almost all communications-mediums. Snail-mail, the telephone, fax, and then email and instant messaging services: it started out as a basic means of communication, then people started figuring out that you could blast out junk-messages to the masses to advertise yourself. Hell, I've even started getting more and more spam-texts on my phone in the last couple of years, so it looks like I'm not safe anywhere.

blargoe

I have my AOL email address from like 1994 that still works. Hotmail from a couple of years after that (still use that one occasionally).

N2IT

blargoe wrote: »

I have my AOL email address from like 1994 that still works. Hotmail from a couple of years after that (still use that one occasionally).

That's funny. Hotmail before it went "LIVE"

DevilWAH

Umm not sure exactly, around 1996 I opened my Hotmail account (before it was MSN hotmail) and it is still my primary account. So about 16years old

I do have a yahoo and gmail account, but only use them for specifice tasks.

QHalo

ChooseLife wrote: »

Hotmail, opened in 1998, still active (but not primary)

^Same here

Psoasman

I've got an MSN email from around 2000.

veritas_libertas

Juno, and I think that says it all...

dustinmurphy

Hotmail account - had since 1996. Use it for signing up for things... for SPAM messages to go to
Cox account - had since 2005-ish

I've had others throughout the years, but those are the only 2 I still use.

thehourman

I created my Yahoo back in 2002 then a friend of my sent me a gmail invite in 2004.

apr911

My oldest still active email account is my MSN account which was opened in Nov. 2001

Of course I have a ton of defunct addresses as Ive at various times had different ISPs, domains and other services... I cant remember most of them, heck and can barely remember all my active email addresses... Oldest email I had though would be prodigy circa 1993/1994.

jayc71

A while back I got an email from Yahoo thanking me for 10yrs of using their email service....lol I think I have a hotmail account that's older, but I haven't used it in ages.

pizzaboy

hotmail account, from Dec 1, 2000. I remember creating this account like it was yesterday, time flies.

MAC_Addy

I had a hotmail address that I recently just closed. I opened it up in 97 or 98 I believe. I only closed it due to me being spammed and I never used it. I went over to Gmail in '04.

RomBUS

My oldest ACTIVE email address is my AOL (probably filled with spam) and Hotmail one, I usually use for general email and email from social websites. I do have older email addresses that are no longer active from Yahoo and Optonline. I also have two dated Gmail accounts from when it was invite only, still use them today for current emails

Everyone

Oldest still active is my Yahoo from ~1996. I had an @music.com address, can't remember if that was older or not, from the 90's for sure. They closed down their e-mail service. 1st e-mail address would have been from the early 90's, local BBS turned ISP. It's no longer around.