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Ask HN: What is your oldest still active account?
Web site, BBS, whatever. How long has it been active? I think mine is since July 2001, the Whirlpool.net.au website.
- drpgq 9y agoI have a hotmail account from 1999 I still use for some travel stuff.
- DamonHD 9y agoThe one I have brought with me from server to server since before, and including some content from, my uni undergrad account. Here's the oldest file in my home dir, from SunWindows for SunOS 3.5-ish IIRC: 1981 Jul 20 1989 .rootmenu.old
- pwason 9y agoI've owned my domain(s) since the '90s. Not sure exactly when I began the yearly ritual of pouring money into the registrars' pockets.. The earliest archive of my main site on the wayback machine is from 2001, but the trademark on that page says 1999-2001, and I think it launched a few years before that. I've had the same email account since 1994; originally a netscape.net account but after AOL bought Netscape the domain was switched to aim.com. I started seriously using the Net in the mid-'80s. I started coding in '74. I started breathing in '60. That's actually my oldest "active" account :)
- Finnucane 9y agoI have an Earthlink email account from c. 1996. Before that I was on The World, but when I moved to NYC, it was impractical to keep using that with no local dialup.
- mindcrime 9y agoThe first thing that comes to mind is my Slashdot account. I don't remember exactly when it was created, but probably sometime around 1998.
- twobyfour 9y ago1992 email account from an ISP that was acquired by another ISP that was acquired by another ISP that was acquired by EarthLink. Still at the original domain.
- programd 9y agoI own a domain created in early 1994, and my personal email account is still there. Since my email is so old I get vast amounts of spam. Apparently spammers never purge their lists. Fortunately Google mail hosting pretty much makes it a non issue. Not running my own mail servers anymore was one of the best decisions I made.
- zimpenfish 9y agoLate 1996 domain and same - absolutely hammered with spam every day. But that all goes in the spam folder and gets deleted every week.
- mattbgates 9y agoi think my yahoo and hotmail email accounts still exist... created in the 90s.
- crazypyro 9y agoMy steam gaming account is my oldest account. I'm 24 years old and created it in 2005 when I was 12.
- superflit 9y agoicq... 6 digits
- cm2012 9y agoNeopets since 2000 or so.
- soneca 9y agoMy first e-mail, given to me by my school when free email accounts were not a thing yet, is from 1996 and I still use it.
- akulbe 9y agoIRC. Same nick for ~18 years. I still use it frequently. Gmail. Since almost day one.
- asnyc 9y ago2004/2005 Gmail. I had a Yahoo one created in 1995, but stopped using it after a decade or so.
- mod 9y agoEmail from ~1999. It's my own domain, but now forwards to a gmail account. I actually lost it for a while, I let the domain lapse and someone snagged it. Then it happened in reverse. It cost me a "blog" (we didn't say that yet, back then) with a custom user/registration system and hundreds of active users, which was actually a big deal, sort-of, in that time.
- telebone_man 9y agoHotmail apparently! 2001! Honorable mention to my MySpace account, from 2005. Which I just visited and it took much longer to load than a random more recently created one. I wonder if they archive old accounts?
- synapse0 9y agoEmail account from 1996, forwards directly into gmail spam folder!
- psyc 9y agoMy gmail, created within a day or two of public availability.
- 0x54MUR41 9y agoI think my Yahoo! mail. It's created at 2002 or so.
- dirktheman 9y agoI actively use my Yahoo email address, I signed up when they started in 1997. I also have an old account from the Home Recording BBS, which, as the name suggests, started off as a BBS somewhere in the early 90s.
- richardknop 9y agoIs ICQ still a thing? I think that might be my first ever account, going into late 90s. Not sure if my first email account was before that or not.