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Some of my MUD accounts from 1991-1992, which I still occasionally log into from time to time, out of morbid curiousity. They're inexplicably still online, but effectively ghost towns. Other than that, probably my Gmail account from the beta days.
This was a fun one to lookup. eBay 2001, Amazon 1999 (first order was a book I needed for high school as well as VHS tape for the movie Heat), but my winner is Yahoo Mail 1997. I'm sure my AIM account would be older but is long since deleted.
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I went to https://web.icq.com/ and signed in. You have to click on the text in the upper left to say "Login with password" so that it doesn't try to do it over SMS.
thanks, no longer works, shame, although it was 8 digits, it only had 3 different digits and ended 000 so nice and easy to remember.
Mine started with 333, so it was also pretty easy to remember.
I've still got an ICQ number that works, though I've not used it (prior to today) in at least a decade, probably two. Eight-digit starting with 1, so probably 1997-1998?
Mine's a seven-digit, starting with 5. I have no idea what that dates it to.
it my Yahoo mail acc.
only had proper access to internet in 2011 - when I entered Uni and then created my Yahoo mail. what a trip.
being from a developing economy and all, Id like to clarify that we did have internet but it was hella expensive and my family personally could not afford it.
Everything else, AIM and MSN, my Geocities and Angelfire and Tripod pages, all the various forums, all lost to time. Good riddance to most of that, honestly.
Yahoo! account established July 17, 1996. I know the exact date because I remember a hyperlink blue headline across the top of the gray Yahoo! home page, "TWA Plane Explodes Off Long Island"
My Gmail account will be 20 years old in a few months. I may still have access to my Hotmail account created circa 1998/1999 but I'm scared to look in there. Everything else, AIM and MSN, my Geocities and Angelfire and Tripod pages, all the various forums, all lost to time. Good riddance to most of that, honestly.
I've still got an ICQ number that works, though I've not used it (prior to today) in at least a decade, probably two. Eight-digit starting with 1, so probably 1997-1998?
I had a very low 7 digit number and the earliest I would have created the account was late summer 1997. My recollection is it was hockey sticking at the time, so that boundary between 97/98 seems spot on.