My Steam and RuneScape accounts are both over 20 years old, and I still use both regularly. Hell, RuneScape is even available via Steam.
As far as the actual oldest account, I think I have an old Yahoo! Mail account from like… Late 1997? Early 1998? Back when AOL was still sending out free demo discs in the mail.
Strangely, the oldest thing I have left is a web hosting account by Strato that I opened around 1999. My dad still uses an e-mail adress he got with his first T-Online account when the internet became available for normal households in Germany in the mid-90s.
Livejournal, 1999. I think I win.
If you’re still using live journal in 2024, you should win SOMETHING.
It was the best social media ever. I still have the same friends 25 years later.
Perhaps your award was the friends you made all along…
I guess technically my KOL. account.
Here’s a question for everyone who’s old enough, what is KOL and what happens to it when you turn a certain age? I’ve yet to meet or hear of anyone knowing this answer.
My RuneScape account
Nice try, Narc
I have an email address and shell account on a SCO UNIX system that I’ve had since 1994.
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Derp derp a durr derpa 1994
(thirty years ago)
I made my email account 28 years ago, and still use it daily.
The oldest email in my Gmail account is from March of 2006, but I used to delete regularly so the account is probably a couple years older than that.
eBay is my oldest, not sure when exactly, 2001-2002-2003 something like that.
Next is my Something Awful forums account from 2005.
Yahoo. It was from 07
My Hotmail account, which I’ve had since high school. Oldest email in there is from 2002, but I think I opened it up in 2000.
same, but yahoo.
All my friends and I used to have Yahoo! email addresses. But for some reason around 2010 almost everyone’s accounts seemed to be getting compromised and sending weird messages around to their contacts… and now I don’t know anyone with a Yahoo!
I never figured out what was going on and why Yahoo in particular seemed so affected by it.
mines for spam too.
Same. I use mine to log into things that require an email so they can spam you.
Same here, made one in 1999, the MSN messenger days were wild.
Same, but my original Hotmail account is long lost. I still have the one I made around 2000 though.
RIP suckitdown@hotmail
My fark account is old enough to drive in the US. I don’t think I really use much of anything that old anymore.
I had facebook from the time when it still required a .edu email, though I quit that. I lost access to my hotmail account years ago after dropping it in favor of gmail. I had IRC accounts going back into the '90s, but I almost never use IRC anymore (and certainly not on those same networks (assuming they even still exist)).
You’re like the one guy I know that actually made an account on Fark
I guess technically that’d be the email account at my employer where I started some decades ago. Before Google and their Gmail was a thing, anyway. Or, livejournal, I guess. …MySpace… Oof, AOL… Usenet, maybe…
Gah. I’m old.
Neopets for sure. Followed by Gmail account
You’re still using your neopets account? What’s going on over there these days, I don’t think I’ve used it since the early 00s
I personally do not play on the account but young family do. I know there are supposed to be some big changes with the 25th anniversary this year.
