Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by gwbas1c » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:40 PM UTC

weinzierl wrote: post #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.

I attended a talk by the founders in early 2004. It was a non-profit hobby project, so it may have existed in some form before 2001.

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

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Post by Rucadi » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:41 PM UTC

My hotmail account reconverted to skype and then microsoft account

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

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Post by madcaptenor » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:42 PM UTC

Just checked my Amazon history and it goes back to 2001. I remember clearly that I was ordering from Amazon in 1998 or so, but I suspect that was actually on my parents' account.

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

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Post by quantxx » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:43 PM UTC

runjake wrote: post #74

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.

A younger one here. What's MUD?

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

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Post by _fw » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:44 PM UTC

xn wrote: post #5

My PayPal referral link no longer works for some reason: https://secure.paypal.x.com/refer/pal=cwarden%40mediaone.net

X.com points to Twitter now, so I imagine that’s why it’s broken

(Unless I’m pointing out the obvious unsaid joke)

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

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Post by ChrisRR » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:44 PM UTC

There's a forum for a game I used to play on windows 95. It seems my account is still active on there from around 2001

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

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Post by zippergz » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:45 PM UTC

Ebay 1998 (used a few times a year), amazon 1997 (used all the time)

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

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Post by Croftengea » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:45 PM UTC

runjake wrote: post #74

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.

Oh, I didn't know MUDs are still a thing. Memories...

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

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Post by bloopernova » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:45 PM UTC

Amazon, 1996, I think. I bought Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars. I got a note saying that I was one of their first UK customers, this was before the UK based Amazon existed.

And a mousemat with a Groucho Marx quote: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read".

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

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Post by Arubis » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 2:46 PM UTC

I've still got an ICQ number that works, though I've not used it (prior to today) in at least a decade, probably two. Eight-digit starting with 1, so probably 1997-1998?