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.
Hotmail. 1997.
I bought a gmail invite from a message board. If this sequence of words makes sense to you, you’re old too.
Ditto - oldest email I still have in archive is from Nov. 2006 so at least that old
:-(
Mine was from a chain of random people posting their invite links on Slashdot. It feels like ancient history now.
I still have a Slashdot account from 2009. Haven’t been on there much in years though. Google would probably be my oldest actively used account as I still use the one I set up with the initital invite.
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.
Shiiit, actually that does make sense. I remember when Gmail gave you 10 invites for new accounts and you didn’t even get them right away. You had to earn them over time. So yeah, invites were regularly sold on the message boards I used to frequent.
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.
I still remember when AIM shutdown for good. That was a sad day.
I mean you could always make a new account to get the welcome email and photoshop the dates and times to make it look like it’s older. I imagine the look of the email now is different from 2003, tho.
My proboards account, made in 2004.
Bank account is first, use it everyday. Second would be apple id.
Yahoo Mail from the probably mid 2000s
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
Probably my 2004 Gmail account, but that’s pushing the definition of “still use somewhat frequently”. I do still have my email forwarded to my current address, but most senders have been updated with my current address.
I lost control of my Hotmail, AIM, ICQ accounts years ago.
I still have my ICQ. That’s one number burned into my brain.
Uh-oh! Mine was long forgotten.
Didn’t ICQ recently shut the service down? Thought I saw a headline along those lines recently.
Did they? I only log in like every six months or so. :(
Edit: yep. June 24, 2024. RIP 8833052
Oh… RIP 170538332 (I forgot the password for my first one and had to create a second one, and for some reason that’s the number that stuck with me)
Somehow I can never seem to forget my ICQ number. 28493804. I have no idea why that’s always in my brain, but it is.
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I think my AIM account is still technically active even though they shut it down. Don’t know what they did with all the accounts.
Nothing really, I try to switch account and delete old ones every now and again. My oldest account is my bank account.
ebay. 1998
Same, but it isn’t my oldest.
My hotmail account.
Signed up for it in the closed beta way before Microsoft bought it, was fucking pissed when they did.
It’s my 2fa for most of my games and the emergency email for my other emails.
My email is my last name dot com. I’ve had it for 28 years.
Does it count if you own your own domain, but have migrated providers 15 times?
My gmail address with my exact full name I registered about 18 years ago by invite only.
My fark account is old enough to drive in the US. I don’t think I really use much of anything that old anymore.
I had facebook from the time when it still required a .edu email, though I quit that. I lost access to my hotmail account years ago after dropping it in favor of gmail. I had IRC accounts going back into the '90s, but I almost never use IRC anymore (and certainly not on those same networks (assuming they even still exist)).
You’re like the one guy I know that actually made an account on Fark
I have a Yahoo email account from the mid-late 90’s…
Same. It would have been 1997 or later.
Mine’s about the same age, 97 or 98. Log into it very infrequently but it still works.
Everything else I recall having an account on from the late 90s no longer exists.
