ICQ - 6 digit address. It's 30+ years old at this point. I still use it once in awhile.
Sadly, my Compu-Serve account no longer works. :|
Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#32I have a university account from 1995. I have a VWVortex (car forum) account from 1999. I used to have a sheet of paper with handwritten account information that I know I wrote in 1999-2000, but I've lost it.
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#33It is going to be close between my gmail (I was invited during the beta in 2004) and my bank which would have been 2002/2003 timeframe but I can’t remember for sure.
I can remember earlier accounts like deadjournal, Hotmail, something awful, but I don’t use those anymore.
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#34A few discworld mud characters have would think.
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#35My 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.
It was brand new at the time. I remember thinking it was super cool that it existed at all. They also had a tele-banking service you could still use at the time.
The UI has only changed notably 2-3 times in that time period too, although at this point 99% of the time I use my smartphone app to access.
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#36Amazon, absolutely. EBay is number two, though I haven't actually used it in years. (I still get a reverse invoice for a credit they owe from the 90's. Hilarious.)
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#37A warez forum I signed up for in 2011
A soccer messageboard I signed up for 2012
My old Reddit accounts that just had a username/pw login (no email) were wiped out during the whole 3rd paty API shift of summer 2023.
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#38German website hoster in '99. They changed their name 3 times in the meantime and I still got unlimited webspace there - any ideas what to do with it? (oh and i see, unlimited sql databases as well...)
My steam account is pretty old, too. 2003 (Got the 20 years of service badge lol)
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#39I have been using E*Trade (stock brokerage) continuously since late 1990s. I'm sure I have a few others from the mid-90s, but no easy way to confirm earliest use date without pawing through thousands of old emails for account setup confirmations.
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#40Still have my college email address. But none of the clients can login until I physically go in and reset the password at helpdesk, 4HELP.
I actively use the eBay account I created in 1998.
And my Slashdot burner account has become my main account because my primary account is tied to my old ISP email address. Learned to never do that again.