• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 个月前

    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.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
    72·
    3 个月前

    I bought a gmail invite from a message board. If this sequence of words makes sense to you, you’re old too.

    • s3rvant@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      Ditto - oldest email I still have in archive is from Nov. 2006 so at least that old

    • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 个月前

      Mine was from a chain of random people posting their invite links on Slashdot. It feels like ancient history now.

      • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        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.

    • sag@lemm.ee
      5·
      3 个月前

      TIL G-Mail was invite only back then. I am too GenZ to undersand this shit.

      • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 个月前

        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.

    • Sean@lemmy.worldOPM
      1·
      3 个月前

      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.

    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 个月前

      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.

      • Sean@lemmy.worldOPM
        1·
        3 个月前

        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.

  • argarath@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 个月前

    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

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 个月前

    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.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 个月前

    Nothing really, I try to switch account and delete old ones every now and again. My oldest account is my bank account.

  • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
    81·
    3 个月前

    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.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    2·
    3 个月前

    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)).