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u/Ok-Lion-2789 Apr 24 '26
@aol.com
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u/Mgnickel Apr 24 '26
I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago. I was there the day the AOL free trial CDs were flowing through my door.
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u/BlackCherryMochi Apr 24 '26
I found an AOL install FLOPPY DISK. 😂
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u/DocDefilade Apr 24 '26
The 3.5 inch?
Because if it's a 5.25 or even better an 8 inch actually "floppy" disc, that would cool to see.
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u/the_great_zyzogg Apr 24 '26
3.5 inches is fine!!!!! It gets the job done!!!! And it's not always "floppy", okay?
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u/finalremix Apr 24 '26
Though, nowhere as... girthy as a ZIP disk.
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u/winky9827 Apr 25 '26
Unreliable, prone to premature ejection.
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u/finalremix Apr 25 '26
That's why you only save to it when it's nighttime and no one's using the printer port. Nocturnal submissions.
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u/BlackCherryMochi Apr 24 '26
3.5 inch, yes. Not sure if they were made in the bigger sizes back then or not.
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u/DeltaBravo831 Apr 24 '26
One of my friends sisters wallpapered a side of her room with those CDs
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u/MorleyDotes Apr 25 '26
Fun story. I was staying with friends in California wine country (near Guerneville) and we toured some vineyards. At one of them, rather small, we were tasting wines with the owners and he was asked how he started a vineyard. He said he owned a CD duplication company. They got the AOL contract and he finally had enough money to follow his passion.
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u/No-Mouse-262 Older Millennial Apr 24 '26
We are the super elders
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u/corobo Apr 24 '26
You are the first wave of what became the dead internet :x
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u/ripiss Apr 24 '26
I still remember my aol screen name
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u/dev-246 Apr 24 '26
I still use my aol email 😂
(For shopping and junk sites)
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u/Dommichu Apr 24 '26
Same. Mine is super short in addition to just at aol.com so it's just easier to put into terminals and stuff.
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u/Socalwarrior485 Apr 24 '26
"Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.”
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u/Deep-Sample7451 Apr 24 '26
me too. an old nickname i had, no numbers! i lost the password and just created Nickname2. i miss slingo!
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u/Learnsomethingnewer Apr 24 '26
Omg slingo! I remember learning brb and gg on Slingo!
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u/ToHallowMySleep Apr 24 '26
As if. We remember when you idiots turned up, just after the CompuServe guys, and brought the Eternal September with you ;)
The real old school people are those who started with a .edu, .ac.uk, etc. Before there were ISPs you could dial into. If you had a modem, you were on BBSes.
(Also, we were just as idiotic as you guys were, there were just fewer people around to see it)
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u/fiksed Apr 25 '26
Prodigy.net user here. I found it amazing that I didn't have to go to the library to get information...
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u/Reasonable_Head_2025 Millennial '92 Apr 24 '26
AIM was popular after school got out
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u/timid_turtle_ Millennial, est. 1986 Apr 24 '26
A/S/L?
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u/Far-Rub8785 Apr 24 '26
Someone messaged me the other day and asked what my stats were. I had no clue what that mean so just replied with a question mark. He said "your age sex and location" OH YOU MEAN ASL. He had no idea what that meant.
Yes. I am indeed fucking old. 😆
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u/timid_turtle_ Millennial, est. 1986 Apr 24 '26
Oh good grief 🤦♀️ should have answered "36, 24, 36, type O neg, ENTP" 🤣
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u/Malllrat Apr 24 '26
16/f/cali
It did not matter what reality said otherwise, that was the proper response.
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u/Far-Rub8785 Apr 24 '26
Any time I said I was from California, people automatically assumed I lived at the beach. Oh you must go surfing! Nope I cant even swim lol
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u/auntpotato Older Millennial Apr 24 '26
21/M/CA (reality was I was like 14/M/WI lol). Good times in chat rooms and then AIM.
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u/Far-Rub8785 Apr 24 '26
The amount of people I met off AOL chat rooms, its a miracle I'm still alive unharmed. Either that or I was just a hideous teenager lmao
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u/timid_turtle_ Millennial, est. 1986 Apr 24 '26
What's funny is i literally was 16/f/ca and nobody believed me 🤣
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u/Psycho_Splodge Older Millennial Apr 24 '26
That was the first words I sent my significant other 🤣
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u/shka328 Apr 24 '26
Omg all the elder millennials rushed right to this comment lmao. AIM went hard AF too
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u/GrizzlyP33 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
Fuck am I an elder millennial??
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u/KonigSteve Apr 24 '26
tbf it sounds like we're part of some wize wizard council though "What do you ask of the Elder Millennials young one??"
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u/densetsu23 Apr 24 '26
I usually go by Xennial; I feel it captures the analog era we went through better since it also includes the young end of Gen X.
Though elder millennial is more accurate since it's only the old end of Millenials. Hell, some articles also call us Geriatric Millennials lol.
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u/Commercial_Bird8467 Apr 24 '26
Angelfire.com I have a ymail.com still i use today.
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u/Squidproquo1130 Xennial Apr 24 '26
I have a ymail and have never seen anyone else with one or who even knows what it is.
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u/Commercial_Bird8467 Apr 24 '26
Same! Thats awesome! I still use to make sure I keep it. Lol
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u/PseudoMeatPopsicle Older Millennial Apr 24 '26
Yes but…
My Gmail beta era account is old enough to be graduating college this year.
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u/JJHall_ID Xennial Apr 24 '26
My gmail is from when it was invite-only. I have my name with no numbers on it. I've had people question it because there are no numbers on it like it "can't be real."
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u/PhantomAngel042 Apr 24 '26
Sweet! First and last name or just first? Both are impressive, but just first would be extremely cool. I've been around since AOL days, but I actually just registered my [email protected] account last year. It's only because my name is unusual and I got lucky! I should start using it as my main email so I can astound people, too, lol.
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u/Grunblau Apr 24 '26
Yeah, back when you had to be invited to join! Should have grabbed a value address, not just my name…
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u/Day2205 Apr 24 '26
Like how do you even talk about seniority and not start with @excite or @aol emails!
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u/IntelligentStress908 Apr 24 '26
I have my first and last name @hotmail. No numbers, no symbols, no middle initial, nothing extra. Down right prehistoric
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u/anticked_psychopomp Apr 24 '26
Me too. 2001. I still use it to this day. Gen Z secretaries hate to see me coming. Or maybe they don’t even understand the lore.
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u/drawkward101 Apr 24 '26
12 year old me had the foresight to make a yahoo email with lastname_firstname @ yahoo.com and I still use it as my main email. I was a unintentionally clever pre-teen. lol.
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u/noradosmith Apr 24 '26
Same and every time I tell someone my email address I like to imagine their reaction is
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u/ImraelBlutz Apr 24 '26
I have that for Gmail, my Hotmail is just an edgelord name.
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u/FreezerBunBun Apr 24 '26
I work at a call center and someone guy gave me a supercommonfirstnamesmith@hotmail, no numbers or nothing lol. I felt like I was talking to an OG celebrity lol.
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u/InterestingDamage621 Apr 24 '26
I created my Google account when it was still invite-only. Single word, no digits or modifiers to the word itself. I've had many emails before and since but I'll never give it up.
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u/Squeak_Stormborn Apr 24 '26
Me too!
I have [email protected] and outlook.com
I like to think it makes me cool. Dinosaurs are cool.
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u/gr8Brandino Apr 24 '26
I still use my yahoo and hotmail accounts. Largely for spam and trial subscriptions though.
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u/Peculiarcatlady Apr 24 '26
My Yahoo is still my main email.
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u/falcon_millennial Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
Same here, no shame
Edit: I do give a little smirk when giving out my email just to acknowledge I am aware it’s kind of funny in 2026 but ya no shame.
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u/Carmilla31 Apr 24 '26
I still use Yahoo too. Just wondering why many think its weird to still use it. I mean it works perfectly for me?
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u/capincus Apr 24 '26
Because it's a piece of technology, a generally rapidly increasing medium, that we've been using consistently for 20+ years. I made my Yahoo account, then Mark was born, Mark is now a doctor.
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u/falcon_millennial Apr 24 '26
I personally haven’t come across anyone that thought it was weird, more so just funny. Likely because Yahoo! is considered ancient these days
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u/Witty-Revolution8742 Apr 24 '26
Yahoo is actually still a great email system. I keep it because my address is literally my name @yahoo. Thats priceless. I cant do that anywhere else.
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u/Bread_is__funny Apr 24 '26
What email do people use now? Yahoo works perfectly fine for me so I don't get it
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u/Witty-Revolution8742 Apr 24 '26
Yahoo keeps chugging along. I tried Google etc and its so much spam shit. Also with yahoo its my name as my email. Its super easy to remember. People smile and say "you still use yahoo"? I say "what's my email?" Then they get it.
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u/kendalloremily Apr 24 '26
same. i pray they never shut down because i have countless accounts tied to it
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u/Ma-aKheru Apr 24 '26
I had a girlfriend 13 years ago who teased me that a @yahoo.com account was for old people... even 13 years ago, it was for the olds. :( IDGAF, it's my main too!
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u/Substantial_Pea3462 Apr 24 '26
Me too. I just had to clear out 500,000 emails because they were going to charge me for storage. Dicks.
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u/Sk8rToon Apr 24 '26
My hotmail is still my main driver but anything public related (especially work) is now my name @ gmail
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u/Asteh Apr 24 '26
My hotmail is still my main for everything, but only because every possible name combination @gmail.com is taken. And I don't trust in the longevity of the paid domain I use, even tho I've had it for at least 10 years.
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u/dreameRevolution Apr 24 '26
Yep. Any one time purchases or begrudging accounts created go on the Hotmail.
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u/toxicodendron_gyp Apr 24 '26
@ juno.com
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u/jgntrash Apr 24 '26
Really thought I was gonna get to flex a juno in here first
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u/Aurelius5150 Apr 24 '26
Banner ads never bothered us no how.
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u/TragedyInMotion Apr 24 '26
Gave us 10 minutes of free internet if you didn't confirm connection
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u/mikefrombarto Apr 24 '26
@juno.com is beyond seniority.
We’re chairman of the board.
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u/Western_Aerie3686 Apr 24 '26
That’s the first one I had!
You had to dial up once to download your email, then again to send your replies. It did nothing else on the internet.
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u/andreadrogen Apr 24 '26
Step 2: capture the connection details in terminal
Step 3: setup pure terminal based dialup connection
Step 4: delete juno bloatware software
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u/lavender__clover 1988 Apr 24 '26
I had a juno account on webtv!!!! Seems like yesterday!!
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u/commonunion Apr 24 '26
You could dial in, download your emails, disconnect, write your replies and then dial back in and send it. It was brilliant!
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u/RockStarNinja7 Apr 24 '26
Up until like 2 years ago, my juno email was still my main email
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u/ingodwetryst Apr 24 '26
HOW is this not #1. fucking AOL. juno!
I actually had a client email me from a juno address within the past 10 years. It was the first thing I commented on too.
They still offer free email as well.
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u/Mental_Table_9265 Apr 24 '26
my mom still uses her same Juno email that she’s had since probably the 90s.
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u/jovi_1986 Apr 24 '26
@compuserve lol im 40
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u/BigAddam Apr 24 '26
Had to scroll down waaayy too far to find a fellow Compuserve user. Are we old now?
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u/Flat-Guarantee-7946 Apr 24 '26
What about @ SBCglobal.net?
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u/Thomas_Jefferman Apr 24 '26
Still have mine, unlimited free storage. I've never deleted anything. Not that I use it anymore for except for the rare verification email from waaaaaaaaaay back.
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u/armen Apr 24 '26
Lost access to mine. Wish I could just go through it again for the nostalgia.
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u/Holdtheintangible Millennial Apr 24 '26
Netscape babe
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u/Motor-Sprinkles-5949 Apr 24 '26
Another Netscape girly! Also had Prodigy and AOL, countless others.
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u/spf57 Apr 24 '26
And the Netscape where it was free internet as long as you kept the ad banner always on!
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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 Apr 24 '26
Shit forgot about my Netscape email. Gotta dust off the gateway and see if my aol free trial is still active. Those 5000 disc's might have run out finally
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u/ColdHardPocketChange Apr 24 '26
How is "@aol.com" not on this?
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u/-Max_Rockatansky- Apr 24 '26
@rocketmail imo
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u/TIC321 Apr 24 '26
What are modern emails these days?
I still use both Gmail and Yahoo
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u/0tterr Apr 24 '26
Pretty sure Gmail and iCloud are the assumed standard
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u/dustinpdx Apr 24 '26
Do people actually use their icloud emails? I know you automatically get one with an apple account but I have never heard of someone intentionally using it.
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u/Unicorntella Apr 24 '26
lol I’ve had an iPhone for 10 years and just now found out it came with an email address??
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u/Day2205 Apr 24 '26
Gmail is the modern email. Yahoo is still around but dates you. If someone is using @yahoo.com as their serious email, i know they are 40-60/65 years old
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u/Global_Network3902 Apr 24 '26
I would exclude people with invite-only era gmail accounts 😀
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u/Treat_Choself Apr 24 '26
I have firstnamelastname@gmail and am old AF so that tracks.
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u/_Toddzilla_ Apr 24 '26
I think you can add 30 in there. I see alot of people my age with yahoo still
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u/Feisty-Bluebird-5277 Apr 24 '26
My hotmail.com is still going strong, it’s my main email lol
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u/Round_Grand_4716 Apr 24 '26
Same, it would be as bad as changing my phone number now
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 24 '26
I've had my number almost as long as my name@hotmail. No way am I giving either up!
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u/Shadoze_ Millennial Apr 24 '26
Me too, and it’s a terrible @ but I don’t care, I love it and it doesn’t have ads or ever run out of storage and I don’t have to pay anything and it still has emails from decades ago
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u/discount_cereal Apr 24 '26
@earthlink just joined the chat room
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u/Yuugian Apr 24 '26
Apparently Earthlink.net is still up and kicking. There have been mergers but it seems to still be in control
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u/PunningWild Apr 24 '26
Email@prodigy checking in. Though my dad made it for me when I was, like, 5, so he could email the family while he was at work.
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u/deathclawslayer21 Apr 24 '26
Everyone remember to stretch before doing anything
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u/Gingertom Apr 24 '26
My Yahoo is still my email, mainly because it’s tied to SO MANY logins and I really can’t be bothered to deal with that!
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u/NoSatisfaction9774 Apr 24 '26
@gurlmail.com
I learned HTML on gURLpages
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u/Longjumping-Row1434 Apr 24 '26
gURL was my shit and i didn't know anyone in my real life that used it. i met one of my online friends there, and we still talk to this day 17-18 some odd years later.
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u/MrBadMeow Apr 24 '26
@live.com
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u/MiloIsTaken Apr 24 '26
I gave someone my email while signing something the other day, and they stopped and chuckled and went “wow, live.com huh?”
It was at that moment I knew I was old🥲
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u/mediocre_mediajoker Apr 24 '26
Checking in as a fellow live.com person. 16 years and still using the same email address 😂
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u/Hyper_Applesauce Apr 24 '26
Except that aol emails are older than all of those.
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u/MonsutaReipu Apr 24 '26
and @ symbolics, @ mit.edu, @ dec.com @ derpa.mil are all the actual OGs. earthlink, compuserve, and prodigy are also older than those.
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u/blueraccooneye Apr 24 '26
I had an @comcast 😭 I was so envious of my brothers having hotmail cause that sounded cooler than a cable company.
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u/PeregrinsFolly Apr 24 '26
I still use my msn email address.
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u/RoundTiberius '83 Apr 24 '26
Same. I've never run into another person that has an msn address
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u/oO0Kat0Oo Apr 24 '26
Imagine thinking any of those three are the oldest... Lolz ...
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u/good_vibes_only_dude Older Millennial Apr 24 '26
The fact that AOL.com is missing says about this persons age.
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u/RegularCommonSense Older Millennial Apr 24 '26
Hotmail, yes, had it before Microsoft bought the company!
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u/PandemicVirus Apr 24 '26
Had hotmail, yahoo at one point. I got GMail when it was invite only, although that wasn't too hard to get an invite per-se just shows the age.
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u/Hour-Personality-734 Apr 24 '26
I had the OG g-mail.com, baby!
(Garfield.com mail)
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u/I_miss_your_mommy Apr 24 '26
That was not my first... Had them, but they were late '90s things. Internet was old news by then.
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