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eBay, 1998. Used regularly.
SSH login at my Alma Mater's Computer Club, 1997. Daily. Primary E-mail.
Also had a Hotmail account which MS eventually canned as I failed to login sufficiently often. Must have been created in 1996, I was still in high school.
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.
How prevalent was Amazon in 1999? Was it the usual place to order books, or would your schoolmates give you a dead stare if you said that you ordered it from there?
I think I may have created my Amazon account in 1998, but my first order was placed in January 1999.
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.
My Microsoft login is still a Hotmail account, and I still use my same eBay account from way back then too. There's also a forum I've been a part of since I was a kid, and I'm nearly 40 now. 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, Faceboo…
My first order from Amazon was in 2001, not sure what date they started in the UK, but I seem to remember that was fairly typical for my friendship group. I knew some of the UK guys at EBay who I used to work with from around 1998, but I never use my account there and I don't think it's quite that old. I feel like I joined HN around 2006.
I do have some PHPBB site logins from the late 90s as well I guess, which I can probably still connect to!
Amazon since April 2001.
Gmail since invite-only days (03-04?)