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Gotta be my RuneScape account from 2006. Thanks to OSRS being a thing, I still play on it.

Technically, my Microsoft account. I created a Hotmail email account around 1997, my first ever online account. At some point, Microsoft merged my Hotmail login with their Microsoft login, and I still use it today; although I've changed the email address to a more current one. Microsoft killed Hotmail a long time ago, in favor of Outlook.

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

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.

Usenet account from 1987. And no, I'm not going to post what it is.

My Yahoo account has to be from at least 1999, I remember using it back in middle school.

Yahoo email account I opened in 1997.

Yahoo. It was from 07

Easily my /. account, using it daily since 1997 or something

I think a spare email I use for peripheral stuff is from mid-late 1990s. Maybe 1996.

I still use the same gmail I made when I was 10, roughly 2005-ish.

Probably my google account. I'd look up the exact age but then I'd feel old.

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.

Steam account. Made in 2007, back then i used for a random game i bought having a cd key; but I still use it frequently.

1996 Hotmail. Created as a throwaway with no link to my work. Still working as a spam dump.

I still play my runescape account I made in November 2002

A 2002 eBay account

My Yahoo Mail was opened the first week of January, 1998. Would be my Hotmail account, but I made my Yahoo account because Microsoft bought Hotmail, and stopped using Hotmail

E-mail account circa 1994.

EDIT: I just checked. My Amazon account goes back to 1995 for a solid second place.

GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.

Lots of people mentioning Neopets. I did have an account there but couldn't log back on when I tried a few years back, so I guess my account was deleted (or I've got my login details wrong)

My memory is terrible, and it doesn't help that I have the world record for the most sites having signed up for (a very nerdy bragging right I have), but it has to be something like one of the Pokemon MMO's, RuneScape, or Furaffinity (RIP Dragoneer). Most of the old places I've been to are gone one way or another, for example I haven't heard from Postopia since the E3 disaster.

My Google accounts have been around for a couple of decades now, my Microsoft account about the same amount of time.

Though actually I think the Xbox live part of my account predates the rest of it—iirc they weren't originally linked.

My steam account is about the same age too come to think of it, I remember getting it before hl2 was released

eBay and Amazon are older too actually, maybe made those back in 2002/2003

Does my online banking count? I've potentially had that even longer

iTools > .Mac > MobileMe > iCloud. Still on the original address. January 2000.

My RuneScape account

My main email account, which is from the year 2000.

ebay. 1998

Wikipedia user account from 2002.