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Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
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Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#2Comcast - don't even remember the handle. It was provided when my family set up internet through them in the 2000s.
Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#31992: it was a local ISP.
In 1993, I got a UUCP feed to my BBS, including email and Usenet news.
Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#4Hrrm... I think maybe it was my email when I was at UNC-W back in the 90's. I don't remember what it was now though. Maybe something like prhodes@sol.cms.uncwil.edu or something like that.
My first personal email though, was mindcrime@nccoast.net. This would have been about 1996 or 1997 or so.
Some things never change, huh?
Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#5My very first address was a BITNET address. This is pre-Internet: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET and my address, which I don't recall, was specified with a "bang" address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path.
I would have gotten this around 1986 while at the College of Wooster. Honestly, I don't think I used that address very often for e-mail. At least, I don't recall using it much, although the details are a little hazy in my memory now. I don't have an archive of anything I sent and received back then. My earliest archived e-mail messages start around the fall of 1990, when I got an account on the University of Michigan's mainframe, and I think that account used the modern scheme for Internet e-mail addresses.
Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#6Pxxxx@ix.netcom.com About 1992, it came with the dialup Netcruiser Internet service.
Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#7Hotmail to use MSN Messenger in the fourth grade. Circa 2004/2005.
Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#8College in 1993 and then an address at my own domain, which I still use as my primary address, in 1997.
Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#9First email was at a now defunct ISP called AsiaOnline, and was a combination of mine an my father's name (as he bought the modem haha)
Re: Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?
#102003, I was about 10 years old, I didn't speak any English and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever to have my own e-mail address so I somehow registered for a Yahoo account. I still have it.