My runescape account. July 6th 2004.
Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
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#12My gamefaqs account has been used basically every day since April 11th, 2002.
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#13I’ve had my account on CIX since 1990. It’s a social network; I get to see people arguing, and occasionally helping each other.
For a while, pre dial-up Internet, it was my gateway to Usenet.
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#14I have a DSLReports account that is still active from 1999 or so. Also my yahoo email from 1997.
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#15I've had a small, shared hosting plan for personal stuff since fall of 1999. I recently talked to an employee who was younger than my account.
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#16I've had my Amazon account since '98 or so. I still have items on my wishlist from the 90s.
Think of all the database upgrades over the years to move that data forward...
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#17My 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.
Wow, I'm surprised at the banking account from 1998. That happened rather quickly given that the web wasn't really on anyone's radar until 95/96 or so.
SFNB offered online accounts in 1995 or 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/19961114220302/http://www.sfnb.c...
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#18My gamefaqs account has been used basically every day since April 11th, 2002.
Same here. Created a Gfaqs account on August 30th, 2001 and have kept it active ever since.
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#19I’ve got a Yahoo! mail address from the 90s that’s still what I use for rando account signups
Is there a way to check how old the Yahoo account is? Back in the days you only had some megs of storage available, so my older emails are all deleted...
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#20My Yahoo mail account was created as a Rocketmail account, likely in 1996 or 97, when Rocketmail launched and became the biggest Hotmail rival.
Yahoo acquired it and it became Yahoo mail.
So 27 or 28 years