I got my Gmail in 2005, and still heavily use it.
I want to run my own email, but I have soo much tied to it that I'm having trouble knowing where to start...
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My Steam and RuneScape accounts are both over 20 years old, and I still use both regularly. Hell, RuneScape is even available via Steam.
As far as the actual oldest account, I think I have an old Yahoo! Mail account from like… Late 1997? Early 1998? Back when AOL was still sending out free demo discs in the mail.
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.
I made my email account 28 years ago, and still use it daily.
eBay is my oldest, not sure when exactly, 2001-2002-2003 something like that.
Next is my Something Awful forums account from 2005.
I own a 6 digit steam id (500k).
I ain't much but it's honest work.
Steam Acc from 2005 and YouTube from 2006
AOL, 2001
Yeah aol for sure though I certainly don’t frequently use it. But I do access it every year or two. That was probably around 2001 as well but I’d need to think about it
Apparently there are dozens of us still using Hotmail. 24 years strong!
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Wikipedia user account from 2002.
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.
GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.
Probably my google account. I'd look up the exact age but then I'd feel old.
Yahoo. It was from 07
Easily my /. account, using it daily since 1997 or something
Gotta be my RuneScape account from 2006. Thanks to OSRS being a thing, I still play on it.
I have an eBay account from 2000 or so, and my email is nearly as old I believe.
I don’t use the eBay account all that often now, but on and off throughout the years. Last used last year.
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I guess technically my KOL. account.
Here's a question for everyone who's old enough, what is KOL and what happens to it when you turn a certain age? I've yet to meet or hear of anyone knowing this answer.
Email from 2001
Year one Steam account, even has a unique profile badge. It's a little over 20 years old. I only made it because I bought a copy of CS: Condition Zero, and it was needed to play online.
Soemthingawful forum membership. Joined in 2k2.
Maybe my Gmail account. I made it to play Club Penguin. I still use it when signing up for things.
I have some old forum accounts but I don't use them anymore. I also had a Minecraft account from before the Mojang and Microsoft migrations. That's gone now. :(
My League of Legends and Steam accounts are old too.
Not sure when I started my Gmail, but I've been using the same Xbox account since 2009.
Nope! Scratch that. I started my Blizzard account to play WoW around 2005! Still use it for Hearthstone now.
My Discord account, which I've had since the early 2020's.
Nice try Robert from Iran
I still use the same gmail I made when I was 10, roughly 2005-ish.
Yahoo email account I opened in 1997.
My first one that I still use is my Hotmail account, but now it's just my spam email, but still randomly have to use it to get some login codes and stuff