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After some poking around my password manager, the only other account I could find still "in use" was an eBay account that I also created in 1999.
I felt a small sense of wonder at having still-functional accounts that are 25 years old.
What are your oldest accounts? What do they still do for you?
But yeah, that email is basically trash and I never use it. I last logged into it maybe 3 years ago.
I was recently able to recover an old Ultima Online account from 1997, but that feels like cheating here.
- the site has been hacked probably dozens of time since I created the account, and my credentials are sold for peanuts these days.
- the password I used wasn't very strong at all, and it has been cracked and shared in plain text for years
- the original domain now probably is in hands of some domain parking bullshit company, selling ads.
In all likelihood, my oldest working account must be the NickServ registration on some IRC network. Though I started with IRCNet and I don't think they had a registration service.
My favorite account I used to have was username@ibm.net, back when they dabbled in consumer ISPs (unlimited dialup!). Sadly, they discontinued that service after a while.
I used to have really old Steam, Amazon, Slashdot, Facebook, and reddit accounts too, but deleted them all for various reasons.
Also have a super early HN account that I no longer remember the password to. So...
My main online banking account is from 1998. Have another cluster of accounts from 1999, things like eBay & Amazon. Have a domain name, and thus email, that also dates to 1999. I was recently able to recover an old Ultima Online account from 1997, but that feels like cheating here.