What is the OLDEST online account that you currently still own and still use somewhat frequently?
What is the OLDEST online account that you currently still own and still use somewhat frequently?
My original Gmail account. I've had it since Gmail was in closed beta.
My Steam account is older though. Fucking thing is old enough to drink now (2003; from when I first had to use it for Counter-Strike when they took down the WON servers).
Any other 21 year old Steam accounts wanna play some Ragdoll Kung-Fu?
I've got a 20 year old Gmail account that I use when I need to sign up for something.
That still gets used? Probably my eBay account from 2000/2001. First thing I bought from there was a 33.6k external modem lol.
Edit: No, I take that back. I have an even older account on a MUD server from like 1996. It doesn't get used regularly, but I do log in every 6-7 months, randomly, and go on a few runs.
I joined a forum about 30 years ago, and I am still a regular. I can't say the exact date I joined, nor can the forum admins, as things like that were not tracked back then. Even them having my email was a way later add-on.
My hotmail account.
Signed up for it in the closed beta way before Microsoft bought it, was fucking pissed when they did.
It's my 2fa for most of my games and the emergency email for my other emails.
My AOL email. I didn't actually make it, my Dad did and I was so young I literally don't remember a time without it. I still check it despite migrating most of my accounts away.
Possibly my Hotmail, although I'm not 100% sure when I opened it, and I converted it to an Outlook email when that became an option.
Most of the sites I used to use have shut down or migrated to new systems, so my oldest account is most likely my ModTheSims account opened in 2008. I do still use it whenever I'm in the mood for some Sims 2 retail therapy.
Nice try, Narc
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.
Hotmail. 1997.
Hotmail from 1996
Gmail since 2002 or something. Steam account if emails don't count.
Edit: Wow account could be older than steam account. I honestly can't remember.
Edit2: Yep, wow account is a 4 years older than my steam. Turns out I lost my first steam account that did not really have any games on it and instead of recovering it I just registered a new one. Doing this research of my own history was a questionable use of my evening but apparently necessary to get it out of my head.
YouTube account, since 2009.
I own a 6 digit steam id (500k).
I ain't much but it's honest work.
Probably my yahoo mail account. I've mostly transitioned off it, but a few things still come to it and it predates even my gmail account (which I barely ever use either). Apple ID's Hide My Email ability has basically rendered all the other ones pointless though since I can just generate a new fake email address whenever I want to register for something fishy. I wish phone numbers worked the same way.
I opened my first Gmail account during the private beta (2004). It's not my daily driver account, but I still use it for government stuff like taxes and healthcare. It kinda blows my mind that it's 20 years old.
Yahoo mail. Although I did literally just delete it off my phone because it was complaining that I didn't check my SPAM messages frequently enough.
Former Hotmail, currently Outlook account. Since 2001
My Google accounts have been around for a couple of decades now, my Microsoft account about the same amount of time.
Though actually I think the Xbox live part of my account predates the rest of it—iirc they weren't originally linked.
My steam account is about the same age too come to think of it, I remember getting it before hl2 was released
eBay and Amazon are older too actually, maybe made those back in 2002/2003
Does my online banking count? I've potentially had that even longer
I made my email account 28 years ago, and still use it daily.
Nothing really, I try to switch account and delete old ones every now and again. My oldest account is my bank account.
I have an undernet from 94-95. If you don't know what that is...
Maybe my Gmail account. I made it to play Club Penguin. I still use it when signing up for things.
I have some old forum accounts but I don't use them anymore. I also had a Minecraft account from before the Mojang and Microsoft migrations. That's gone now. :(
My League of Legends and Steam accounts are old too.
Soemthingawful forum membership. Joined in 2k2.
GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.
Year one Steam account, even has a unique profile badge. It's a little over 20 years old. I only made it because I bought a copy of CS: Condition Zero, and it was needed to play online.
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.
Probably my google account. I'd look up the exact age but then I'd feel old.
Yahoo. It was from 07
Easily my /. account, using it daily since 1997 or something
Gotta be my RuneScape account from 2006. Thanks to OSRS being a thing, I still play on it.
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.
eBay is my oldest, not sure when exactly, 2001-2002-2003 something like that.
Next is my Something Awful forums account from 2005.
Steam Acc from 2005 and YouTube from 2006
Wikipedia user account from 2002.
My first one that I still use is my Hotmail account, but now it's just my spam email, but still randomly have to use it to get some login codes and stuff
Not sure when I started my Gmail, but I've been using the same Xbox account since 2009.
Nope! Scratch that. I started my Blizzard account to play WoW around 2005! Still use it for Hearthstone now.
My gmail address with my exact full name I registered about 18 years ago by invite only.
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.
E-mail account circa 1994.
EDIT: I just checked. My Amazon account goes back to 1995 for a solid second place.
My Discord account, which I've had since the early 2020's.
Yahoo email account I opened in 1997.
Nice try Robert from Iran
I still use the same gmail I made when I was 10, roughly 2005-ish.
Facebook, 2004. Gmail, 2005. Still use both of those accounts.
I made my AOL mail account in 2006 and still use it. I don't use it as my primary email anymore, but I have hundreds of accounts tied to it
Technically, my Microsoft account. I created a Hotmail email account around 1997, my first ever online account. At some point, Microsoft merged my Hotmail login with their Microsoft login, and I still use it today; although I've changed the email address to a more current one. Microsoft killed Hotmail a long time ago, in favor of Outlook.
Just missed my ICQ account which was about 27ish years old. Ok it wasn't in frequent use.
My gmail account has been in continuous use since 2009, although I use it less now that I used to.
Yahoo account from 2003 still use it daily
I think my Mail account. ~23 to 25 years
I've maintained my personal website at the same hosting provider since the turn of the millennium.
I still play my runescape account I made in November 2002
My RuneScape account
My Yahoo account has to be from at least 1999, I remember using it back in middle school.
Yahoo Mail from the probably mid 2000s
it was kongregate i believe until that site got basically shut down
its still up and running, but the forums are gone and the chat rooms are gone
I made my steam account in 2003 and my hotmail address is even older. Likely 2002. Its almost time for my 15 year pin in CS.
DNS reseller account I made 15 years ago. Transferred it to my corp a few years ago and still buy all my domains there.
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.
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)).
I still use a Yahoo account I created back in 95 (I think, it might be a little later).
My Yahoo Mail was opened the first week of January, 1998. Would be my Hotmail account, but I made my Yahoo account because Microsoft bought Hotmail, and stopped using Hotmail
My main email account, which is from the year 2000.
i believe my neopets account is older than my youtube account, so that. actually went to playing neopets again fairly recently to see how its changed
My proboards account, made in 2004.
Yahoomail account. Created it in the early 2000s, stopped using it around 2009 when I moved on to newer email providers. I remembered I still had it last year when I got an emai on my recovery email that they will be deleting my account if I don’t login. I somehow was still able to recover it and login after 15 years. Now I just login whenever I get a notification of inactivity. I don’t actually use it for anything anymore.
YouTube! I've been using the same account since 2008. They actually had to makeup an email for it since my account was before the Google merge.
Still active. Probably Steam.
A 2002 eBay account
I think a spare email I use for peripheral stuff is from mid-late 1990s. Maybe 1996.
Bank account is first, use it everyday. Second would be apple id.
Lots of people mentioning Neopets. I did have an account there but couldn't log back on when I tried a few years back, so I guess my account was deleted (or I've got my login details wrong)
iTools > .Mac > MobileMe > iCloud. Still on the original address. January 2000.
My memory is terrible, and it doesn't help that I have the world record for the most sites having signed up for (a very nerdy bragging right I have), but it has to be something like one of the Pokemon MMO's, RuneScape, or Furaffinity (RIP Dragoneer). Most of the old places I've been to are gone one way or another, for example I haven't heard from Postopia since the E3 disaster.
