My AOL email. I didn't actually make it, my Dad did and I was so young I literally don't remember a time without it. I still check it despite migrating most of my accounts away.
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My Twitter account is from 2014 and I still use the same one. My youtube account is even older but no idea how old. On places like Reddit and Lemmy I make a new account atleast once a year.
Hotmail from 1996
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...
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.
Nice try Robert from Iran
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 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.
Email from 2001
My original Gmail account. I've had it since Gmail was in closed beta.
My Steam account is older though. Fucking thing is old enough to drink now (2003; from when I first had to use it for Counter-Strike when they took down the WON servers).
Any other 21 year old Steam accounts wanna play some Ragdoll Kung-Fu?
Steam Acc from 2005 and YouTube from 2006
I own a 6 digit steam id (500k).
I ain't much but it's honest work.
Yahoo Mail from the probably mid 2000s
A hotmail account from before microsoft bought it
Yep. Same. I can’t think of anything older that is still operating.
I have an undernet from 94-95. If you don't know what that is...
Apple iTools @mac email address from 2000, eBay since some time in 98, but they don't show records that far back.
Ebay will (or used to) tell you when your account started. July 97 for me. I remember when i could skim through all of the auctions, on my lunchbreak.
Ebay still shows your start date on your feedback page. Mine dates back to December 1999 and I believe that makes it my oldest still active online account.
Yahoo mail. Although I did literally just delete it off my phone because it was complaining that I didn't check my SPAM messages frequently enough.
Hotmail. 1997.
Still active. Probably Steam.
The oldest email in my Gmail account is from March of 2006, but I used to delete regularly so the account is probably a couple years older than that.
YouTube account, since 2009.
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.
Nice try, Narc
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.
Same for me. Helps that it's a pure utility account with no social interaction and no media consumption. There's no real competitor to it where I live, so no alternatives.
I've probably had three different emails associated with it through the years.