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Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

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My `pobox.com` account was created in the mid-1990s. Active the whole time. My college email addresses were created three decades ago and are active today. I could switch back to using one as my primary email address everywhere, and do use it in some places, but the pobox address became the primary one after graduation, before the college address was reenabled. My Amazon account was also created in the mid-1990s. I a…

Damn, I thought I was doing good with a 3-digit Slashdot id.

Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

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post #45

My `pobox.com` account was created in the mid-1990s. Active the whole time. My college email addresses were created three decades ago and are active today. I could switch back to using one as my primary email address everywhere, and do use it in some places, but the pobox address became the primary one after graduation, before the college address was reenabled. My Amazon account was also created in the mid-1990s. I a…

Damn, I thought I was doing good with a 3-digit Slashdot id.

I apologize; I meant to write "4-digit" and somehow that turned into "single-digit" in my brain. Yours is older.

Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

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Back when I was 14 I was at a friends house and I needed a name for a character in a MUSH (like a MUD) based on Lord of the Rings that he was playing. That day I created the username I still use to this day. Amazing to see they still keep the lights on over there almost 29 years later!

Urgo..................Jun 23 1995

Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine's a seven-digit, starting with 5. I have no idea what that dates it to.

Mine is 6 digits, starting with 3. I'm pretty sure that it was 1996 when I signed up.

Got a 6 digits, too, starting with 1. so I'd say your one sounds about right.

I remember that ICQ was the "hot new thing" on Christmas and New Year in the phreaking scene back then. I signed up pretty early, dunno if it was late November or early December though.

Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

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post #26

My personal website [1] has been hosted by Hostway.com since 1999. I still edit the HTML files by hand in a text editor, and I upload them by dragging them between the windows of an FTP client. [1] https://gally.net

...and it's responsive, interesting, and up to date. Congratulations and thanks for the link!

Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

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post #26

My personal website [1] has been hosted by Hostway.com since 1999. I still edit the HTML files by hand in a text editor, and I upload them by dragging them between the windows of an FTP client. [1] https://gally.net

...and it's responsive, interesting, and up to date. Congratulations and thanks for the link!

Thank you!
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