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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?
#92Some 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?
A text-based, multiplayer, real-time virtual world. Sometimes more group-chat, sometimes more adventure story scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#93I'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?
Mine's a seven-digit, starting with 5. I have no idea what that dates it to.
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#94My somethingawful.com account just celebrated 20 years. I logged back on and haunted some of the old boards but didn't feel the same magic as back in the day. My Steam account will be hitting 20 years soon as well
My first Amazon purchase was in 1999. eBay doesn't save purchases that far back but it must be a similar age.
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#95I'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?
I've tried a hundred times to recover my 7 digit ICQ number for the longest time. I think it will never happen.
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#96Some 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?
Multi-User Dungeon; Cf. MUCK for multi-user chat kingdom and friends. Essentially a shared text-only set of chat rooms with a theme and some built-in game logic.
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#97Some 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?
Multi-user dungeon, basically a text-based MMORPG.
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#98Some 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?
Multi User Dungeons were sort of multiplayer roguelikes/interactive fiction. The text-based precursors to MMOs
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
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wow. How to test? I tried my old account on icq dot com but doesnt seem to exist.
I went to https://web.icq.com/ and signed in. You have to click on the text in the upper left to say "Login with password" so that it doesn't try to do it over SMS.
thanks, no longer works, shame, although it was 8 digits, it only had 3 different digits and ended 000 so nice and easy to remember.
Re: Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
#100Some 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?
MultiUserDomain - a precursor to today's MMO. You could connect to an ascii based adventure/roleplaying game that others could connect as well and communicate. I played astaria.net back in the late 90s.