My World of Warcraft account. 20 years this fall!
Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
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#72Probably my Gmail account that I got when it was still in beta circa 2005.
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#73Ars Technica forums, over 25 years.
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#74Some 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.
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#75This 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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#76I have a DSLReports account that is still active from 1999 or so. Also my yahoo email from 1997.
My DSLReports is my oldest! 1999.
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#77My World of Warcraft account. 20 years this fall!
Same. But my EQ account from Kunark would be even older, by about 4 years.
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#78I have a still-functional though no longer in active use AOL account which I think is from ~1996 when I was ~9. My parents were subscribers so it was created as part of their family account. By the late 2000s I had migrated to Gmail and was only using my AOL account for AIM. One day a friend texted me to ask if I might have been hacked. It turns out my mom's account--and thus those of mine and my siblings--had been c…
I too have an AOL account from 1996. I used to occasionally IM people with it until about 2015, but haven't actually emailed anyone with it since I can't remember when. 2008? It's definitely my oldest account.
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#79ICQ - 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. :|
What do you use ICQ for?
I stopped using it when it became pretty much just a dating service.
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#80Hotmail. Still in active use as my "for important life affairs" email address.