My somethingawful account is early 2000’s. I can still get into my gamefaqs account too which iirc is late 90s.
I feel partially responsible for a lot of culture, from certain emojis to certain styles of writing and roleplay, and for that I’m very sorry.
The 90’s were a pioneering time on the internet and if you had even a little digital art skill and a good sense of humor, you could quickly create entire movements of proto-memes and humor systems.
being a clown on something awful was really good times
My YouTube account is coming up on 20. Probably that seeing as MySpace was wiped.
I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this “buying shit on the internet” thing wasn’t going to be a scam.
I have some Usenet posts from the late 90s that are still there. My oldest actively maintained internet presence is probably my LinkedIn account, which I registered in 2008.
Hotmail from 1998.
I’m with you there. I still have my cringe edgy 1998 Hotmail login that has morphed into the credentials for all my Microslop dealings, I never use it for mail, but I have unfortunately had to give it to people professionally during some azure related training and onsite sales pitches.
For good or ill I still use it for mail, hell with 'em! I just don’t want to go through the hassle of brainstorming all those who have it and then changing it where necessary.
Anything that had that email would’ve been from my teens to early 20’s since I ended up with a Gmail account in like the 3rd wave of beta invites. That was my grown up email, and so anything of value is there while the Hotmail only gets spam and ms updates. But can definitely appreciate sticking with 1 account, since I’ve not swapped emails since my early 20’s for the same reason you describe.
Skyrama
Probably my last.fm account, was made in 2005. Everything else before that has died a death, either because I changed services like with gmail or because the service is no more, like with ICQ etc.
I recently started using IRC again but had a almost 2 decade long break between so I don’t think that counts.
The oldest one I still use regularly is probably my Steam account which is 17 years old (as of today actually).
I’m no greybeard in comparison to the wizards here, but can still probably log into my webkinz account from 2008. I think they still have a legacy app anyhow lol
I’m sure you can find old forum posts of mine from when I was an internet baby but couldn’t log back in to those, if an account was even required back then lmao
Probably my Runescape account, just hit 21 years.
Gosh, yeah, mine must be of a similar vintage. I’m just hearing now that you can get special 10 / 15 year capes as well
My wizard 101 account probably
Does Angelfire keep websites up after 30 years of no activity?
My yahoo email address, created in the early 2000s. I receive a yearly reminder on my current email that it’s about to be deactivated due to inactivity, so I log on to keep it alive. No reason really.
My old Yahoo account had emails from 98 or so, I had some AOL content starting in about 94 and Prodigy before that. Before that everything i did was on multiple BBS’s and don’t think any are still going, the last one i looked at was back in 2008 or so and they still had the BBS archives up on a web page.
