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ebay. 1998
Same, but it isn’t my oldest.
Wikipedia user account from 2002.
GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.
Neopets for sure. Followed by Gmail account
You’re still using your neopets account? What’s going on over there these days, I don’t think I’ve used it since the early 00s
I personally do not play on the account but young family do. I know there are supposed to be some big changes with the 25th anniversary this year.
My Google accounts have been around for a couple of decades now, my Microsoft account about the same amount of time.
Though actually I think the Xbox live part of my account predates the rest of it—iirc they weren’t originally linked.
My steam account is about the same age too come to think of it, I remember getting it before hl2 was released
eBay and Amazon are older too actually, maybe made those back in 2002/2003
Does my online banking count? I’ve potentially had that even longer
I still use the same gmail I made when I was 10, roughly 2005-ish.
Probably my google account. I’d look up the exact age but then I’d feel old.
1996 Hotmail. Created as a throwaway with no link to my work. Still working as a spam dump.
lol same with one of my yahoo addresses.
Yahoo. It was from 07
Usenet account from 1987. And no, I’m not going to post what it is.
X-No-Archive: yes
What’s “on” there? What can it be compared to at this time?
Usenet? Most new media can be found there. The most copyright-contentious files are not on there for long so most folks use automated downloaders.
Usenet was the golden age of Reddit for its time. Before the binary newsgroups drowned everything out and web 1.0 captured everyone’s attention.
In a way, it was a lot like Lemmy. Federated servers all inter-exchanged posts to a giant, global message board of newsgroups (roughly analogous to a subreddit or Lemmy community). Anyone could create a newsgroup and there were a lot of them.
When it was good, it fostered the same kind of genuine conversation that Reddit and Lemmy do when they’re at their best. It was full of memes, too, although that word didn’t exist then.
Yahoo email account I opened in 1997.
I guess technically that’d be the email account at my employer where I started some decades ago. Before Google and their Gmail was a thing, anyway. Or, livejournal, I guess. …MySpace… Oof, AOL… Usenet, maybe…
Gah. I’m old.
Technically, my Microsoft account. I created a Hotmail email account around 1997, my first ever online account. At some point, Microsoft merged my Hotmail login with their Microsoft login, and I still use it today; although I’ve changed the email address to a more current one. Microsoft killed Hotmail a long time ago, in favor of Outlook.
I too am still using my hotmail from around 1997.
Thirds!
I bought a gmail invite from a message board. If this sequence of words makes sense to you, you’re old too.
Mine was from a chain of random people posting their invite links on Slashdot. It feels like ancient history now.
Ditto - oldest email I still have in archive is from Nov. 2006 so at least that old
TIL G-Mail was invite only back then. I am too GenZ to undersand this shit.
A pattern they repeated with Google Wave and Google+, neither of which took off, partly because there weren’t enough people using them.
I genuinely thought G+ could have been a FB killer, if they hadn’t made it hard to join.
I got an invite to Gmail when I was in university. Sadly I was at inbox zero for quite some time so I don’t have the Welcome to Gmail email anymore. It’s more than likely my oldest active account. I do have a Neowin account that still works from 2002 but I don’t frequent anymore. Macrumors is my most active old forum account, that’s from 2005. I had an ancient AIM and ICQ account but there’s no way I could remember the account details.
Ditto for the AIM and ICQ.
I think I read recently that ICQ was shutting down.
:-(
