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I am 'pwinnski' nearly everywhere now, because on April 1, 2005, I was not allowed to create a gmail account of only the first five characters. Goodbye to 15 ye

I am 'pwinnski' nearly everywhere now, because on April 1, 2005, I was not allowed to create a gmail account of only the first five characters. Goodbye to 15 years of the old 5-character username, and hello to what is now 15 years of the new 8-character username! At the time, I thought about pestering my Google-employee friends, but decided to just suck it up.

bookofjoe 6y ago
Synchronicity: You joined HN June 28, 2016 I joined May 8, 2016
- pwinnski 6y ago
  Weird. I wonder if you told me about it back then, or it was a coincidence.
  - bookofjoe 6y ago
    That is such an interesting question; it could be either one IMHO, with equal likelihood