I still have one of the things I won in a "Congratulations" pack for being one of the first 500 people to sign up for Hotmail. It originally included:

a Burger King gift card
a freezable fake beer mig for cold drinks
a tiny pocket sided retractable wired mouse
a DVD set of How I Met Your Mother, S1 or S2

LavishnessUnited1274@reddit

sbcglobal.net

I got rid of my aol email address but I still have Juno for my spam catcher. It still works but it doesn't handle multi-factor authentication very well.

My main address is my phone number.gmail.

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DeathOfASuperNovuh@reddit

I still have an AOL and a hotmail

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crash-o-matic@reddit

I have a 3 character long domain followed by my country code (?), like abc.nl

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draggar@reddit

I own (my real name) .com so I have (my first name) @ (my real name) .com - I even have it on my resume (it's set up to forward).

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bourbonpens@reddit

Yahoo since the 90s. Only four letters.

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aimoji@reddit

@msn.com

It was my primary for almost 30 years and is now where most of the junk goes.

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Wulfe97@reddit

AOL still my main

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Oh man I haven't used icq since....1999? I don't remember getting spam back then.

I did log in again around 2006 just to see if the service was still running but only stayed in for a few minutes

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ZeroCalorieCoffee@reddit

I wish I could remember my ICQ number … I know it was low. I think I may have joined in 1996 when I was in college.

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comp21@reddit

Yeah I think that's when I signed up... Senior year in high school. Actually met my first wife on there weirdly. Just randomly started chatting and she lived not far from my grandfather who was 1100 miles from me and I visited every summer.

Somewhat related: For years Ive read articles that say "when applying for jobs, dont use 'legacy' email providers like AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo etc" 🤔 The idea being that anything older than Gmail is a hint about your age, and can make it easy for recruiters to weed you out as ~~too old~~ errrrr uhhhhh, "not a good fit with our work culture"

More recently Ive been reading that even a Gmail account can look suspect, if it's too clean or simple. JohnSmith, or whatever is your first and last name, was probably obtained 15 to 20 years ago. But JohnSmith861103 is probably newer & hence safe

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Blocked-Author@reddit

LastnameFirstname@gmail here and I have gotten them for my kids as well for when they are ready.

I want my dad's when he is done using it though. It is just Lastname@hotmail

It's a good one.

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Ian-Not_on_Olive@reddit

First initial, last name @hotmail.com

No numbers, no special characters.

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p1dfw@reddit

Same but @yahoo.com

Icooktoo@reddit

I still have a Net Zero email from 98 or 99.

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Vomerog@reddit

Same

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PapaGolfWhiskey@reddit

@owc.net

40characters@reddit

Do you get mail for every other goddamn person who has your same name but can’t for the life of them properly communicate their Gmail address to others?

Same for me on the Yahoo account. I also had to delete thousands of emails due to their new storage limit. If it wasn't for the limit I wouldn't have cleaned up my mailbox.

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Head_Trick_9932@reddit

Yep, same. My family would laugh because I literally had hundreds of thousands of emails. I had to delete to keep the email as it’s used for schools, bank, drs etc so no other choice. I didn’t want to have to change everything over to a new one after so many decades lol.

I have a still-active Hotmail account for throwaways and use my me.com email every day. People comment on it a lot. I love how short it is

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SorryDog254@reddit

This is a fascinating trip down memory lane. Thanks/s

^^^ I don’t even know if that’s the right way to indicate sarcasm

I’m the loneliest loser of all tech. The last time I was fluent was WordPerfect 5.0

I had a job in Santa Cruz in 1990 or 91 at an independent insurance adjusting firm after the quake the year before. I have no updates after that. I have so many email addresses that I’ve lost count of them. I have no idea how to access them. I’m the proud owner of four probably now. Including Gmail and Protonmail and the one from Apple that is in stasis.

I wish I could do a damn thing about it.

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chatterwrack@reddit

I have a @me.com from Mobile Me before it became iCloud

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Fun-Ad-4409@reddit

I have one @mac.com was before @me.com

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Remote_Hearing_6959@reddit

I still have my aol one from 1995 and still use it

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MoaningLisaSimpson@reddit

I have a Hotmail account from 1996. I use it for loyalty programs etc and check it on the last Sunday of the month, if I'm not checking it for coupons or such.

I want an email @somecomputer.com !!

yahoo dot com since '97. The only actual people who want my email (as opposed to a form requiring it) are my age, so it doesn't matter.

When I say "email" to my 19-year-old, she starts laughing. When I say it to my 11-year-old, he says "your what?"

Hotmail is still my main.

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Ayrwynn@reddit

Yahoo, circa 1999.

Up until the first partner this month when I retired my email account there was 34 years old.

My Gmail address is firstnamelastname@gmail. It’s not as old as my AOL email address though.

Neren1138@reddit

Me I was an original Gmail account holder.

my best friend went out to their HQ to interview for a network engineer position and he got a swag bag from the interviewer.

in it were 5 codes to give out for access to Gmail.

CheesyRomantic@reddit

So do I.
Honestly, why would I change it?

I had to create a Gmail account when I purchased a new phone and I hate it.

Me too. Since 1997 or 1998 I think.

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whiskytangophil@reddit

I went to a network owners group meeting for some major universities in my area. I met some of the people who literally helped design and build email and the Internet. The school that hosted the event was the 10th university in the world to have the Internet and was part of the DARPA team that tested it.

One person had an email address that was his (very common) first name @ school name initials. No last name, and no “.edu” just something like bob@xyz.

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SethBullock1875@reddit

I still use my @netscape.net from the mid 90’s.

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My brother still uses his aol account. I have based most of my email addresses off of my original aol email address. Unless someone had an account with them, they wouldn’t see it or understand it.

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KnoWanUKnow2@reddit

I have my Yahoo.ca account, from the first year that they made the .ca domain accounts available.

davesonett@reddit

I got one

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lotusblossom60@reddit

It also goes to mac.com

The period isn’t technically part of the username. These all go to the same email inbox for gmail:

firstlast@
first.last@
f.irstlast@

first.last+ticketmaster@

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GlobalTapeHead@reddit

I had a @bellsouth.net account for 28 years and then one day got locked out due to someone entering the wrong password too may times, and because the account was so old I couldn’t prove it was mine, couldn’t remember the security questions. I had to abandon the account.

Yup. And I freaking hate it every time I have to type it.

I bought a domain name back in 1993, that to this day, I still use. I actually offered 'internet' services for a few years back then before SLIP & PPP became a thing in the mid 90's.

Not got any rare domain ones but I've got my initials and surname at Hotmail.

I still have an EarthLink account!

My husband has a Mindspring account (bought by EarthLink) that he used for a business that's still going so he can't get rid of it completely.

My surname was taken. I’m .com. My email is @.com

I just registered my domain for 9 years and had them put my correct contact information in the ICANN database. My ISP had been consolidated twice and registrant and administrator had been deleted. The registrar is a different company from my service provider and I was worrying that my domain would get lost in the bureaucracy. It would be disastrous to lose my email address.

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Subaruchick99@reddit

We have .com

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kindafunnylookin@reddit

Have you started to worry about what whether it's going to survive if anything happens to you? My wife uses my domain for her personal email, and if I got hit by a bus tomorrow she would have no idea about domain registration renewal or updating MX records.

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IHoppo@reddit

Yeah, I've got 3 children and they all have admin access to the setup (was Google, now Squarespace). They can fight it out amongst themselves as to who pays the tenner each year 😂

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DicksOfPompeii@reddit

I still have first initial last name @yahoo that I’ve had for so long I couldn’t even tell you.

-SpreadLove-@reddit

Still have @rocketmail as well. It was taken over by yahoo about 20 years ago, so I use yahoo to login. Even that feels like a dinosaur now.

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Express-Rise7171@reddit

@mac.com from 2002! My neighbor worked for Apple and I feel like we were early adopters to Apple products.

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Sticky_Cobra@reddit

I still use a ".net" email account.

Yeah, the question is unclear. The pedantic answer would be that each of us who owns our own email domain has a unique email domain, and thus equally and unbeatably rare.

I’ve owned ours since the early 2000’s. I used to run my own mail server, but these days I use a European hosting service and let someone else take care of the administration and maintenance. (European because the EU has far better privacy protections than the good old USofA.)

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flamejob@reddit

The question is a little confusing. Email domain? Just domain, or email address? \o/

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jetkins@reddit

I’ve had my @yahoo.com address since 1996. I never use it any more, so all it ever receives is spam, and the occasional email intended for some stupid bint who started giving it out as her own a few years ago. (I’m looking at you, Diana. If you’re looking for the receipt for the bag you bought from the Coach outlet in Glendale last week, I have it.)

GirlNamedTex@reddit

Me too, along with first namelast name@gmail.

I still remember my family's 7 digit alphanumeric ID from Prodigy in the eeearly 90s...

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KharnalBloodlust@reddit

I do as well!

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jpetersell@reddit

I have, from high school and based on my name, a jacque_o. No numbers. That’s not how JKO spelled her name, but mine is. I never use it. I will not get rid of it. It will still be out there, collecting spam email, long after I’m dead.

I've had my pacbell.net since early-mid 90s. Younger folks don't seem to know of Pacific Bell.

I still have a .mac account that I set up in 2002.

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dr_police@reddit

I have my firstname.lastname (at) mac.com and use it still.

I also have a less than 10 character gmail address. That’s my last name and initial. And I own a less than 10 character .com domain name.

Yes!!🙌🏻 same here!!

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Adept_Push@reddit

I was a very early adopter at Mac. My email address is

my first name @mac.com

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Imunhotep@reddit

Me too. Mac account since mid ‘90s

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WestRelationship415@reddit

Same. …. @mac.com

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ordbot@reddit

I love that! I have

mitchmconnellsburner@reddit

I don’t use it anymore but I’m surprised I haven’t seen perfectlyprivate in this thread yet

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hellhouseblonde@reddit

I have my first & last name on a Hotmail account from like 1994. Maybe earlier.

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hewhoisneverobeyed@reddit

Me, too. Grabbed it in ‘96, I think.

parkerhalem84@reddit

Not rare but I still use my hotmail.com account.

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VicLap45@reddit

Prodigy.net since 96 and msn because i got locked out of my hotmail. The msn one is my stalker email since it has nothing to do with my name. I used that one to sign up for stuff when I don't want to give my daily one.

Had an Excite one until that went poof years ago

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

I had MSN but forgot to use it for a while since I have multiple email addresses and I lost the account for inactivity. Boo. 😒

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ClumsyTulip_1999@reddit

@mac.com

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

My mom has @mac and MSN email addresses

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texachusetts@reddit

If someone tries to @iCloud.com me straight to trash.

transitioning

Wait…are you supposed to get rid of the old ones? I collect email addresses like people collect coins I guess. I have 8 I actively use, including vvv.

Some site also won't accept it since I'm clearly putting in a fake address.

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KeatonRuse@reddit

Omg, came here to say exactly this. Still use it as my primary, and my address is simply my first name, last name at email.com, but the “email not Gmail” pain you feel is for reals.

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

AOL

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

Hotmail Netscape Navigator

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IranticBehaviour@reddit

I still use my second Hotmail account. I lost the first one way back when you had to login once every 30 days or something, and I missed by a day.

spamellama@reddit

I still get someone's travel reservations sometimes but have a filter to trash them (different first name). Only thing that really freaked me out was when someone thought their bank user name was mine, so my login kept getting locked (I prefer that over wondering if someone was trying to brute force my account). I had to change my user name with my bank

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Brilliant-Pie5207@reddit

I can’t put a filter because it is the same first and last same spelling. Now, if I can’t unsub from something, that will get circular filed immediately as long as it is not something I also use.

One of them is a politician and active community member where they live. I’ve had the chance to alert them multiple times over the years because people were trying to get in touch for real reasons.

newideal17@reddit

@xoxy.net - spamgourmet

pumkinut@reddit

firstname.lastname@gmail

Got invited with three invites to hand out.

Had a Juno email address for years before that

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Interesting_Win786@reddit

Pacbell.net acct

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poprevolver@reddit

first and last name @ earthlink.net

Had it since sometime in the 90's

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PuzzleheadedBobcat90@reddit

I jabe my full name for one email server and my first and middle om a different email server. One of the few good things about having an odd name

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CarCurator@reddit

I have my name @hotmail.com, @gmail.com and @yahoo.com

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suffaluffapussycat@reddit

I have mail@myfirstnamelastname.com

I bought the domain many years ago.

I know a very brilliant MD who still actively uses his aol email address because he travels worldwide in very rural areas and some places still have dial up internet only. And aol still worked with dial up.

(That was his explanation a few years ago. Things may have changed but he is still using it.)

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JoshOfArc@reddit

AOL officially ended dial-up access a few months ago.

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makingotherplans@reddit

Awwww, that’s kinda sad. I know some places up North in Canada that still only have dial up internet access or satellite/mobile, but not high speed, last places we have to be connected.

I have firstnamelastname@gmail.com, @att.net and @comcast.net firstnamelastname.com web-address.

There are only about 25 people in the US with my name but I was an early adopter of the internet.

I worked for a guy that still had a prodigy email.

That was my very first email. Wish I had kept it

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arabrab12@reddit

Wish I had kept my mindspring with my first name @, but I got too much spam.

I have first initial last name @ gmail which is ironic because my kid because a SE at google and has the same initial first name as me. He uses first and last @ google tho.

Also had prodigy and Delphi.

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travelinmatt76@reddit

my dad has a swbell.net account, my oldest is a yahoo account with just my name, and my gmail is the same

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bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit

Excite.com

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clhchewy81@reddit

@me.com

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drhman1971@reddit

Hotmail with my initials and last name. No numbers.

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No_Proposal7812@reddit

Me too!

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Ike_In_Rochester@reddit

iwon.com

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Thick_You2502@reddit

@bibnal.uba.edu.ar 1994 Argebtina's National Library. Very limited you've got only 5 emails a month to another domains. I've accesed using Bitcom client and a 14400 modem.

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Trolldad_IRL@reddit

@adelphia.net. Provider was bought, then they were bought and maybe again.