• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

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

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      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.

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        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.

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

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        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
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      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.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    Gmail since 2002 or something. Steam account if emails don’t count.

    Edit: Wow account could be older than steam account. I honestly can’t remember.

    Edit2: Yep, wow account is a 4 years older than my steam. Turns out I lost my first steam account that did not really have any games on it and instead of recovering it I just registered a new one. Doing this research of my own history was a questionable use of my evening but apparently necessary to get it out of my head.

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        3 months ago

        Usenet was the golden age of Reddit for its time. Before the binary newsgroups drowned everything out and web 1.0 captured everyone’s attention.

        In a way, it was a lot like Lemmy. Federated servers all inter-exchanged posts to a giant, global message board of newsgroups (roughly analogous to a subreddit or Lemmy community). Anyone could create a newsgroup and there were a lot of them.

        When it was good, it fostered the same kind of genuine conversation that Reddit and Lemmy do when they’re at their best. It was full of memes, too, although that word didn’t exist then.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    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)).

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      You’re still using your neopets account? What’s going on over there these days, I don’t think I’ve used it since the early 00s

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        I personally do not play on the account but young family do. I know there are supposed to be some big changes with the 25th anniversary this year.

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

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    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?

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      Damn, I have almost the exact same answer. Switched to Steam once WON got taken down (held out as long as I could), and had a friend send me a Gmail invite a few months later.

      Only differences are that I mostly used mine for TFC, and my account won’t technically hit drinking age until early next month.

      I kinda wish I could say I had like a bottle of liquor I’ve been saving for the occasion, but the idea of a “21-year-old Steam account” genuinely never occurred to me until one day I woke up and realized it was about to turn 18. Made me realize how fast shit moves, and this is just driving the point home…

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    A four letter .com domain name I registered in 2003. Supposedly worth $5000-6000 presently.

    Or my eBay account I’ve had since 2001.

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    I joined a forum about 30 years ago, and I am still a regular. I can’t say the exact date I joined, nor can the forum admins, as things like that were not tracked back then. Even them having my email was a way later add-on.

  • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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    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.