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

#21
I still have a DynDNS (later Dyn and then acquired by Oracle) account.

It is a bit funny since the "Dyn (company)" Wikipedia page[1] says the company was founded in 2001, but I'm pretty sure I had this account already when years started with 19.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company)

EDIT: Not an online account, but I only had a single mobile phone number my entire life.

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

#22
I'm a bit younger than some here, but my teenage tumblr blog is still online, and my Gmail and Spotify accounts are still the same accounts from when those services were invite-only, so 2004 and 2010 respectively.

As an aside, I was reading a review of a book about Richard Nixon on Amazon recently, and noticed that the review was from 1998.

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

#24
post #20

My 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

Same, came here to say yahoo mail

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

#25
I also have an eBay account that I still use from 1999.

The other one that people seem to be impressed with is my Netflix account is from 2003. I was ordering DVDs in college and it blew people's minds that I was renting DVDs through the mail at that time. I tried to buy their stock back when they tried splitting the company into two entities. I think the stock was like $5 at the time. Unfortunately it was a lot harder to buy stock back then.

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

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I still have a DynDNS (later Dyn and then acquired by Oracle) account. It is a bit funny since the "Dyn (company) " Wikipedia page[1] says the company was founded in 2001, but I'm pretty sure I had this account already when years started with 19. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company) EDIT: Not an online account, but I only had a single mobile phone number my entire life.

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