Show your age - what was your first ever email domain?

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CommunityOld1897GM2U@reddit

Mine was yahoo but also recall the weird email phones BT brought out for the talk21 system. never used it for emails but I remember it existing.

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spffngly@reddit

I remember being the only one with this when everyone else had a hotmail and feeling very uncool about it 😢

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Jayflux1@reddit

Hotmail to Yahoo was like Facebook to MySpace.

Me and my friends all had a yahoo email first, then gradually everyone moved over to Hotmail. But for the generation after, they all started on straight on Hotmail and didn’t know yahoo was a thing.

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Firthy2002@reddit

Same. Everyone else in school was signing up to Hotmail and here I was with my Yahoo account (although I signed up to Hotmail eventually, mainly for MSN Messenger purposes),

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betterland@reddit

me too! actually my main address I still use ymail.com I made it like 10 or more years ago and everyone asked me if that's meant to be Gmail. ugh

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Tattycakes@reddit

Same! Still have it, though the name is too embarrassing to use haha

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ladybigsuze@reddit

I still use my yahoo.com email address!

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LazyEmu5073@reddit

Me too, which pre-dates the .co.uk ones.

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Largejam@reddit

Mine is Yahoo.com as when I set it up they still only allowed .com accounts

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frankie_0924@reddit

Mine is firstnamelastname@yahoo.com. I still use it as my spam email account. Found an email in my sent folder from May 2002

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Yep, still my main email address. Originally you couldn't use dots in Yahoo email addresses, but they say they changed it my Dad went on literally the minute they were released and got our whole family firstname.lastname@yahoo.co.uk.

I also still have cringinglyembarrassingemailaddressisetupasanedgyteenager@yahoo.co.uk which I occasionally still use if I want a bit more anonymity...

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trainpk85@reddit

I have firstnamelastname@yahoo.co.uk I did have a Hotmail but it was something risqué so stopped using it and created yahoo when I wanted to apply for uni and had to put it on my ucas forms. Still use the yahoo account.

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BigEdMustaphaz@reddit

I’m still using actively using firstnamemiddlenamelastname@yahoo.co.uk

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Tall-Paul-UK@reddit

Same. And still use it now for signing up to the occasional site that I know is going to spam me!

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Prestigious_Bass7194@reddit

Compuserve. I am old

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Ok_Asparagus1069@reddit

@btinternet.com

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EnoughProblems247@reddit

Thatsmybong@hotmail.com

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M1kbee@reddit

@ntlworld.com Or @another.com

I'm pretty sure that neither company exist now.

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Luvlymish@reddit

@yahoo.com

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Hebrind@reddit

I’m a UK-based Hotmail.com user, which is around 1998. I remember I made one for getting in a clan on Team Fortress Classic - ah, them were the days.

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allcretansareliars@reddit

My first personal email was demon, but I had a work email (.ac.uk) in the 80s which had the name of the server that I logged in to pick up the mail from. Dedicated mailservers were a waste of money 8-)

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Prof_PW@reddit

I remember I had tiscali (I think that was how it was spelt)

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cono1717@reddit

Tiscali

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VFrosty3@reddit

We had Tiscali in 99 too.

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szmidtten@reddit

I couldn't remember mine so I was browsing through until I found the one - this was it!

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IsomerUK@reddit

I still use my @tiscali.co.uk address… In fact it was LibertySurf, that was bought by Tiscali after they discovered offering unlimited 0800 dial-up for £20 a year was not commercially viable long term!

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Marilliana@reddit

This wasn't my first email (I'd had a yahoo.co.uk since 1999), but Tiscali was the first broadband provider I paid for myself! I had internet in the downstairs room of my shared house just for me!

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thatguyjames_uk@reddit

omg yep lol taken by talktalk

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miklovesrum@reddit

Same!

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VFrosty3@reddit

I think it may have been AOL. We got online in 1995, I only knew two other people that had internet at that time.

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BrummieTaff@reddit

Yeah mine was talk21 too. Became completely unuseable once the spammers got hold of it. I was so naive in the 90s, used to post comments on forums and fill in the "email address" form at the end for literally everyone to see. I don't know why. Clicked the "opt out" links on every spam I received. Became literally like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Also remember the rick rolls (and the duck rolls that preceded it) were much more malicious in those days. You'd try to close them but clicking the x would just open another window with the same thing! Somehow managed to get out can't remember how, maybe task manager but I didn't know shit.

I also remember getting infected with viruses like the one where every 3rd or so google search would instead send you to a site that had payed the virus maker? I think it was called "goored" or something. Got online help from a forum to get rid of that.

Also one time, I started my computer (this is my first home windows computer that I got for uni) and there was no start button, no nothing except 4 little squares that I could click on. Each of those squares was a porn site! Looked like my 'puter was toast. Can't remember how I got out of that.

Fuck I was a noob!

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swinefever@reddit

@swinefever.demon.co.uk, and eventually @compuserve.com

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OnceUponAComment@reddit

@aol.com

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

Hotmail of course. The one I still use. And I'll call the web address outlook when they pry my Hotmail address from my cold dead hands.

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PsychoticDust@reddit

@msn.com for me. I still use it! Anyone else here with the same?

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Green_Eyed_Slayer@reddit

Yes! 1st name, last name msn.com here

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Monk3y_Trousers@reddit

Me too! My was msn.com and I still have access to it

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PsychoticDust@reddit

Nice one! I like the nostalgic reactions I get when people find out.

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Monk3y_Trousers@reddit

Same! The occasional comment of ‘oh that’s old school’ always makes me smile

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obsidianstrobe@reddit (OP)

Hotmail was standard for so many people.

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

Yeah I think you're about to find out just how many people had Hotmail lol

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i_am_simple_bob@reddit

Hotmail was the worlds first free web email service. It was so popular that Microsoft acquired. I had my firstname.lastname@hotmail.com because I signed up on the first week, maybe day.

What else can I say to prove how old and geeky I am?

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scottyman2k@reddit

My first Gmail was firstname@gmail.com

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TheThurgarland@reddit

Lucky you

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Advanced_Couple_3488@reddit

I remember that I could have had firstnamelastname@gmail.com and decided not too because I thought no one would want to type all that. Sigh.

I did grab one closely related to my specialist area in music, though.

My first serious email address was as a member of a professional association and they offered an email service as part of the benefits for being a member. I only deprecated that because I have my own domain name and didn't want to keep paying membership fees that cost more than hosting my own domain.

I don't seriously use my Gmail account for the obvious reasons.

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Lottiepop420@reddit

You don't want it. I daily get email for other people with my name. It is not a particularly popular name, most people can't pronounce my surname.

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scottyman2k@reddit

Yeah - I gave mine up because I got so many people just using it for theirs - some idiot in the US kept telling people it was his, and had his family members threatening to sue me for stealing it!! Eventually gave it up because the whole experience was tiresome - when you have emails either threaten and harassment almost every day over an email address .. madness.

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throwawayinfinitygem@reddit

Unfortunately I've had at least one American signing up to things using my Gmail address for several years.

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TheBlueprint666@reddit

I had firstnamedotlastname@googlemaildotcom for mine

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MxJamesC@reddit

I have surname@gmail.com and someshit@hotmail.com

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Shyaustenwriter@reddit

I have an incredibly common firstnamelastname (there are 4 of us in my home town that I know of) and I managed to snag firstnamemiddleinitiallastname@gmail.com

I still get regular email from a sorority and from a Canadian rapid transit.

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JoshieMcJoshface@reddit

I met some girl on holiday once when I was younger who’s was firstname@hotmail.com it was so impressive I’m still thinking about it to this day

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ghusto179@reddit

I had firstname@googlemail.com when it was in beta mode, but got locked out of it. My recovery email was work related, but tied to a specific web domain project that I never really used. I think I had to confirm my email in order to move to @gmail.com and it just kept saying it didn’t recognise my recovery email 😭

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PeteWTF@reddit

If you still have access to it Googlemail com and gmail.com are interchangeable

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Vequihellin@reddit

I'm so old, someone had to send me an invite for a Gmail account.

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Clomojo87@reddit

I have a Googlemail.com and a gmail.com because they changed it and both still work (for now)

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DangerousDisplay7664@reddit

Mine was firstname@googlemail.com - because Google did not yet own the rights to the Gmail.com domain 😂

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Supergoose5000@reddit

A dream I never thought I wanted! I might fire them an email asking to buy it.

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t3rm3y@reddit

I thought there were loads more before Hotmail? Didn't Hotmail just take off as all the (at the time) kids , were all using msn messenger, I was then adulting so didnt get hooked.

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Stifton@reddit

I still use my Hotmail because it is this

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Bobinska@reddit

I did the same with @live. Firstname@live

Also did a few random ones at the time just for fun, like homer@live etc.

Still use it today but my god the spam bots that guessed it was a live account. I made the mistake of doing the 'unsubscribe by clicking here' and just made them aware that the account was active soon after.

Price to pay for having a good email. Live are pants for deleting / blocking multiple emails on phone app and I can't do via laptop / computer.

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Mmordo@reddit

Had???? May I please request we sustain present tense!?!

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Lopsided_Soup_3533@reddit

i think my first email address was a @yahoo.co.uk think I got a Hotmail about 5 years later. I still use the yahoo dont remember the Hotmail. I keep the yahoo for things I need an email address for but dont want to read constant spam. I dread to think what my unread inbox is

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obsidianstrobe@reddit (OP)

Hahaha

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CharmingTea_@reddit

Who remembers MSN messenger?

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AlternativeGreedy787@reddit

Still have mine but it is full of spam.

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Sorry-Mate69@reddit

Yep me too.

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Purple-Job2976@reddit

Hotmail.com ! Had my account for over 20 years…

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Icy_Mixture1482@reddit

I wonder if there’ll be the same nostalgia for Gmail in 10 years as there is now for Hotmail.

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Spinxy88@reddit

My Google account is registered to a hotmail.com address, that's how old school I am...

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pippaskipper@reddit

Nickname @ hotmail.com since about 1996. It’s the one I still use

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SeveralDifficulty745@reddit

Mine is still Hotmail.co.uk

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DrainpipeDreams@reddit

I signed up almost immediately but it was back in the day of "don't use your real name or they will steal your identity" so I ended up with heronblazer@hotmail.com . I wonder if it was ever recycled and someone else still uses it now? 🤣

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MTB-Devon@reddit

I managed to get firstname-lastname@hotmail.co.uk in the early 2000’s and still using it!

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alisha1444@reddit

me too but i’m actually only 22, i made my email by myself at 6 and i scored my full name @ hotmail . co . uk

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StrangerOk1831@reddit

Same, but late 90s

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Love-tea@reddit

Yeah same lol

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Nervous_Yard7034@reddit

And me!

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reachingechoes@reddit

Yep same, firstnamesurname@hotmail.co.uk

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freexe@reddit

Mine was HoTMaiL.

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detinUi@reddit

TIL thats a thing

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The-lemon-kid-68@reddit

Same here, still using mine.

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MelodicAd2213@reddit

Same have 2 hotmail accounts since late 90s

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RegularWhiteShark@reddit

I also use hotmail still, haha. My email addresses are like 20 years old now.

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ShortStrike6653@reddit

Exactly same as mine firstnamelastname@hotmail.com

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SpecialK04@reddit

Same here, and with fullname too

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

I remember someone I know using Hotmail so long ago it wasn't yet a Microsoft product.

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j-b-i-r-d@reddit

I did firstnamelastname007@msn.com and then forgot the password so I made firstnamelastname006 because I loved Goldeneye and Sean Beans character. I still use it because I can pretend as a man in my late thirties that its just a random number not a james bond reference

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Ste0803@reddit

Firstname_secondname@hotmail.com very early adoption as I have a very popular name.

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SpectralFawn@reddit

My first email account was a Hotmail account that I still use to this day. It's nearly 20yrs old now.

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username-alrdy-takn@reddit

same with me. mine is .co.uk but still firstlastname

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

Oh yeah mines .co.uk

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lumoslomas@reddit

I recently had to give an email to an actual person (I can't remember what it was...maybe internet provider?) and the person on the other end exclaimed "a Hotmail! You have an OG Hotmail! Do you know how rare that is?" I didn't realise it was?

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

Lol surely that's not rare?

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OMGitsAfty@reddit

I had namethehotmale@hotmail.com 13 yr old me thought it was brilliant

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

Haha I bet you did lmao

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ccc2801@reddit

Same! Had it for almost 30 years 😄

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algy100@reddit

I have a hotmail from the late 90s when I was in secondary school but I got a gmail when I left uni because of that whole hotmail is unprofessional thing. They’re both a variant of first name last name@ but I use the gmail way more - initially because it got less spam, then because the interface was easier and now because of the whole outlook signed in account thing which means it clashes with the stuff I use at work (and so having it open on a tab while I’m working isn’t practical.

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thorn312@reddit

My mother set my Hotmail email address up when I left junior school and had little business cards printed that I could give out to my friends to keep in touch🥹

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PARFT@reddit

I still use my hotmail account too.

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Financial_Bed_2938@reddit

sillyandslightlycheekyandprobablyageinappropriatenickname@hotmail.com

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The_AJR@reddit

The local council to me recently sent an email to a load of garden waste subscribers and included all the residents emails in the chain (500+). Putting the obvious data leak aside for a moment… at least 80% of the email addresses on the list were still hotmail addresses to this day!

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CallMe_Noodle@reddit

I had firstnamelastname@hotmail.com from day 1 and still use it today.

Unfortunately I got married. When I changed my name and created a new email I had to add numbers because my married name was already taken.

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PinkSheeparkour@reddit

same lol

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kylehyde84@reddit

I got firstname.lastname in 1998 and also 2025 as my name is rare. Not sure if it's a brag or not 🤣

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CasualGlam87@reddit

I still use my Hotmail email I made in 2001

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69AssociatedDetail25@reddit

Eh? Which email service is "professional", if not Hotmail?

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

The advice was to use a broadband provided one like sky, virgin, etc, just "not hotmail".

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Smeeble09@reddit

Same, except the start of mine came from playing thps with a mate.

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xenomorphling@reddit

Yup I have the exact same format as you, still my primary email address after probably 20+ years

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ellieneagain@reddit

My main email is still Hotmail. I feel exactly like you do about keeping it.

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vrekais@reddit

[Jedi-name]@hotmail.com was mine. To determine your jedi-name you took the first part of your street name and your favorite sweet name. Like if you lived on Bond St and liked Mars bars it'd be BondMars.

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Reddit__user_@reddit

Amen amen amen😊😎👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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silobass@reddit

Yes Hotmail here too of course. I was going travelling in 1998 and someone said their Dad would set one up for me. I asked how much it would cost and couldn't believe it when they said it was free. Amazing times, I couldn't believe such a free service existed!

Sadly I can't remember my log in and I expect it's expired by now. I think I've tried to recover it before without any luck. May try again later now.

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JaphetCorncrake@reddit

Hotmail used to have a way of seeing the date you set up your account but they’ve since taken it away. Which is annoying

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miked999b@reddit

Same! Still think of it as Hotmail even now

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echo588@reddit

Started with governmentfirstnamesurname@hotmail.com

Soon switched to shortenedfirstnamesurname@hotmail.co.uk

A fella I knew l back in late 90’s claimed he had hotmale@hotmail.com but I’m sure that was bollocks

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colin_staples@reddit

Mine is also Hotmail

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Puzzled-Job9556@reddit

The one I still use

Impressive

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Redgrapefruitrage@reddit

Yep, Hotmail!

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PomPomBumblebee@reddit

Same lol

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sentient_custard@reddit

My first EVER was @hotmail.com but my first home Internet domain was @freeserve.com

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northerncrank@reddit

AOL.com when you got the trail CDs in the Sunday mags

Man I'm old 😭

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scionanimate@reddit

@ymail.com! Got locked out of a few of my accounts back in 2018/9 when it was disconnected 😂

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S18ELL@reddit

Mine was a Freeserve account but the email was too long to remember I then got a ymail account with yahoo when they came on the scene and have been loyal to them since.

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davidht1@reddit

Mine was a '.ac.uk' address in 1994 through university.

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BrightonDBA@reddit

100742,62@compuserve.com

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LordIacobus@reddit

tinyonline.co.uk

Yeah, I'm old

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theonetruethingfish@reddit

Probably xxact.com.hk, but it’s so long ago you may as well ask what was my first web browser.

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SohoSerendipity@reddit

@byu.edu in 1988 when I took an experimental calculus class running Mathematica on NeXT cubes

ISPs were not yet allowed and UUCP was the glue making the equivalent of social networking possible

When I ftp’d TBL’s first browser launched a couple of years later, I was a TA for the course and there were a whopping 13 websites in the world on that day

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Pretty_Aspect_6177@reddit

Aol.com

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TheThurgarland@reddit

Still got mine. Mr(my surname) @hotmail. Com

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No_Oil_3965@reddit

A load of numbers &compuserve. You couldn’t have your own name That came later

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volvocowgirl77@reddit

Hotmail.com which is still my main email address. Also had aol.com but haven’t used that in 29 years 😂

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ScientistJo@reddit

talktalk.net

And I still use my netscape.net address to log in to Facebook.

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corsair965@reddit

Hotmail was my first, still have it. But I remember the mate who introduced me to it pronounced the @ as ‘asat’ because it just wasn’t a symbol anyone used at that point.

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According_Act_7142@reddit

@hotmail.com still have it 25 years or so later…only a backup these days tho!

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jsarantis@reddit

james@mac.com

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Zealousideal-Habit82@reddit

Madasafish.com

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thetourist85@reddit

Same. Nostalgic af!

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Tuesdaynext14@reddit

Waited too long for this one.

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MyMaisie@reddit

Me too, I loved the name!

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Zealousideal-Habit82@reddit

I almost thought I was going mad but I'm certain in the late 90's this is what my Dad set me up with. Glad someone else agrees I'm not just chatting shit.

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daveycroc@reddit

This was mine too. Apparently we're Scottish. They're now part of Plusnet.

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Uythuyth@reddit

I’m a lastnamefirstname@hotmail but my dad is firstnamelastname@aol

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Grem-123@reddit

I had talk 21 as well. It wasn't even my name, my sister asked me what was the first thing that popped into my head was and set it up with that and a number.

My first professional one was initiallastname123@hotmail.com

I now have firstnameinitiallastname@gmail.com for both my married name and my maiden name.

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OG_Flicky@reddit

@blueyonder.co.uk and @yahoo.com 1998ish

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Gold-Vacation-169@reddit

@rocketmail.com 8nbthe mid 90s (it later became Hotmail)

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Aoxomoxoa53@reddit

Mine was firstname@tcp.co.uk, hosted by Total Connectivity Providers who also provided internet access. It was dial-up connection but I got free calls to my phone provider, Videotron.

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MrBoggles123@reddit

Rocketmail from before it became Yahoo Mail.

I probably had a few CompuServe ones as well from when we only got online via free trial CDs.

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theabnormalone@reddit

All these whippersnappers going on about Yahoo without knowing the glory that predated it. RIP Rocketmail, you were awesome.

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Tasty_Cheesecake2452@reddit

I still use my rocketmail email as my main one.

I remember many many years ago getting an email saying that from a certain date you could no longer make a new rocketmail account. But could continue to use it if you already had one set up.

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spammehere98@reddit

It still works.

"Rocketmail email is now integrated into the Yahoo Mail system. Rocketmail was among the first free web-based email providers. Even though you cannot create a personal email address using the Rocketmail email domain, Yahoo! Mail allows users to access their old Rocketmail email address."

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Personal_Outcome_957@reddit

I still use my rocketmail

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DustWild8322@reddit

Had completely forgotten about Rocketmail!

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Winklemans_Fringe@reddit

Still got my rocketmail !!

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k1ttybizkit@reddit

my mother still has rocketmail as her primary email account in the year of our lord 2026…

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SillyWillyUK@reddit

I had 113175,3145@compuserve.com

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Plane-Zach@reddit

God glad I wasn’t the only one on compuserve - but also had a Janet account at uni

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randomentity12@reddit

Fsmail provided by orange

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TheInquisitivePie@reddit

I miss my @fsmail :(

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BadestTony@reddit

Mine was fsworld that got taken over by Orange.

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obsidianstrobe@reddit (OP)

I remember that one

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IntroductionHot7236@reddit

First name@handbag.com! Boots used to have an ISP for some weird reason! 1998 I think!!

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ArtlessFlapDragon@reddit

Hotmail. God I wish I could remember the login credentials - would love to revisit those emails 🤣

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PM_ME_VAPORWAVE@reddit

It was bt, still use it today.

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froction@reddit

Domain? It was a Prodigy user "name."

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Aroracherry@reddit

Hotmail 😂

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TTSOfficial@reddit

Mine was @hotmail.com which I've still got. Back in the days of MSN Messenger.

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Ordinary_Drummer_956@reddit

What's a domain?

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PGAdmin@reddit

Zwallet.com

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hits_riders_soak@reddit

mobilenumber@one2one.net

literally no one to email.

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Chelsea2021972@reddit

@aol.com

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Conversation__16@reddit

Mine was postmaster.co.uk - I stopped using it when Gmail came out.

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cj4747@reddit

@cix.compulink.co.uk, around 1992

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SplitJugular@reddit

Haha I still use my original Hotmail account. I get a few people mentioning that it really ages me

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kelly-golightly@reddit

I’m still yahoo. I’m embarrassed

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rockchick99@reddit

@madasafish.com

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poshbakerloo@reddit

Btinternet.com

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parsnipchip@reddit

Yahoo l****2001@yahoo.com too latevto change it

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hexajon@reddit

Freeserve - back in the dial up days when they had free CD-ROM disks in just about every electronics retailer

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lespauljames@reddit

We had freeserve, emails ending in Fsmail.net

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Jlst@reddit

Yes this was my first. Was gutted a few years back when they got rid of it and I had to move everything over onto a new one.

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SeveralDifficulty745@reddit

Ah this was my first! Fsmail.net

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mjstokes85@reddit

Same! And I didn’t know how email worked so though you had to put your name and address in the email address 🤣🤣

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useless3rdnipple@reddit

They shortened the domain after they had. @(your choice).freeserve.co.uk

Pain in the arse to read out when people were just starting to ask for your email address

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hhfugrr3@reddit

Ahh yes, I had me@omicpowerstation.freeserve.co.uk

Mildly amusing when I came up with it but a total pain in the arse if you needed to tell it to anyone. Luckily that was very rare.

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WiseElephant3251@reddit

Mine was [first name]@[username].freeseeve.co.uk Became such a mouthful to give out. I became jealous when people had short hotmail ones.

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fyremama@reddit

Freeserve here too, we had 1 email for the whole family 🤣 was the surname plus 2 numbers @freeserve

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dl064@reddit

Unlimited internet! Imagine.

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doihavetousethis@reddit

When you payed 2p an hour and data didn't matter

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Familiar-Woodpecker5@reddit

I can still remember the noise of those bloody things!

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gribbon_the_goose@reddit

Snap

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HollowMatryoshka@reddit

@ my last name. My father is an IT wizard

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Maleficent-Alps9208@reddit

Hotmail, aol, live

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mcb89x@reddit

I still have the same Hotmail email address I made in 3rd year of high school in 2004. I’m 37 now.

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Puzzleheaded-Key2212@reddit

I have an @mac.com email address when iCloud was called iTools back then. Also have an AOL still although thats basically dead now

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This_White_Wolf@reddit

My first personal email (ie not university or whatever) was with Demon.co.uk.....quite a loooong time ago

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TeenyIzeze@reddit

Ekit.com

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Longjumping-Lake-930@reddit

Tehpwnerz2@yahoo.com

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LeeGamerUK@reddit

Tripod I think. But I still use my original Hotmail.com too.

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Youngy_Bhoy@reddit

Hotmail from 1999.

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Lowermains@reddit

My first Gmail was by invite only. When they were rolling it out worldwide.

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Ready_Structure8115@reddit

Same, and I managed to get my firstnamelastname@gmail.com, and my name is pretty damn common

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anarchtea@reddit

Same! Still have that one now.

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UPdrafter906@reddit

Same

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Spinxy88@reddit

@ ntlworld

My parents used it until they didn't need email anymore, and as far as I am aware its still active now.

Was fun last time I needed to manually setup the server settings.

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

Hotmail.

I don’t really use that any more but do have first.last@gmail.com and this is yet another reason I won’t be changing my name when I get married.

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free_booter@reddit

@msn.com

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free_booter@reddit

Specifically firstnamemiddleinitiallastname@msn.com

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carguy143@reddit

I have just my surname @gmail.com :)

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carguy143@reddit

Mine were talk21.com and msn.com before I got invited to the gmail beta. I've had the same email address for 23 years now.

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rah1911@reddit

The one I still use, able to get my actual name @hotmail.com

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VirusWonderful5147@reddit

@ehche.ac.uk in 1992

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z_3_r_k_3_d@reddit

I was really young when my mum got me an email @smarties.co.uk or something along those lines. Used to email my grandma back and forth

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idkabtmygenderhelp@reddit

@gmail.com

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

demon.co.uk

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GabberZZ@reddit

Demon were great for cheap internet at the weekend as they had local phone numbers which only cost 50p regardless of how long you were connected.

I can still remember the number. 01625 509666

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Ornery_Priority_7419@reddit

A fellow Macclesfield resident!

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OriginalPlonker@reddit

We used to use a friend's work dial.pipex.com account because they had a local number that worked with BT's Friends & Family discount. They never checked how many concurrent connections they had per account.

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br0wn0ni0n@reddit

But did you access it with a 75 foot extension cable that you had to unravel and plug into the socket by the front door, after everyone else had gone to bed? Good times.

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GabberZZ@reddit

Fortunately I had a socket wired into my games room!

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spannermeetworks@reddit

Spotted the 40 year old

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pasarocks@reddit

Wasn’t demon setup by a it running it from his bedroom originally? That was my first service

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IndigoQuantum@reddit

Yeah Demon, I even remember having to cut out a form from a book and send it off to join. All these AOL and Freeserve newbies need to get some time in!

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BismarkBogmark@reddit

Me too!

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howaboutanothergame@reddit

Another for Demon here.

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obsidianstrobe@reddit (OP)

I think you win. Was that like ‘93?

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

'92, there is a recorded post on a certain alt.fan newsgroup... before the wibbly wobbly web; back in the days of usenet and WAIS. Oh happy days.

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schmerg-uk@reddit

Tulip Winsock FTW.. mate of mine wrote some of the client stack (he was the one who first showed me the web back about then)

Technically I had an internet routable email address at work (I configured our sendmail rules for our UUCP connection to send messages between offices) but it was essentially an internal email system only.

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sqwz@reddit

I was on demon too, and cix before that (cix.compulink.co.uk) Cix was a dialup conferencing system, and I wasn't even aware for a long time that my address there was a real Internet email address, because I didn't know anyone else with an email address until I found newsgroups.

I also used a very early email system in the early 80s, forgotten what it was. I think I had to access it via BT's PSS (packet switched service)

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terahurts@reddit

I was also a CIX user (via my Amiga 1200) around the same time. The only person I could email was one of my friends at University who had a JANET address.

Very fond memories of CIX, I was active in the Terry Pratchett forum where he'd occasionally pop in, as well as some gaming ones where well known figures in the industry would also interact with us plebs. For some reason the user 'WavyDavy' is ringing a bell as well.

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cowbutt6@reddit

For some reason the user 'WavyDavy' is ringing a bell as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey_Winder

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dizzley@reddit

I was also a Cix user and used the cix.compulink.co.uk email. That would be about 1985. They were also my first ISP.

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

KA9Q

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Key-Seaworthiness227@reddit

Same

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runew0lf@reddit

Same!

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InteractionHairy6112@reddit

I was just going to post the same, my first ISP

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RamblingManUK@reddit

Cyberwear.co.uk a small local ISP in the UK that provided my dial up internet connection.

I remember upgrading my modem to a new faster one that could do 33kps.

Yes I am a dinosaur..

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Ornery_Priority_7419@reddit

Demon.co.uk

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MissRainbow18@reddit

Yahoo

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Raystorm2001@reddit

Does an .ac.uk address count? Otherwise it was a demon email account.

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spinzzi@reddit

@talktalk.net

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harriscot57@reddit

Netscape.net

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meow-5757@reddit

iCloud…

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TheInitialGod@reddit

Hotmail. I still have it.

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Justtcreepinn@reddit

My dad still uses his @sky.com email address

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Justtcreepinn@reddit

@googlemail.com 💀

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Background-Drama-386@reddit

Firstnamelastname@Madasafish.com

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kayjays89@reddit

Hotmail, my first ever email got hacked

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Charming-Objective14@reddit

Nice try I don't want any more spam.

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RecommendationHot42@reddit

Yahoo.co.uk

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Spacker2468@reddit

firstnamelastname@Hotmail.com , still rocking it 27 or so years later

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Stewstar73cyclism@reddit

apple@breathe.com

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egan_floffelschnaff@reddit

I believe it was freeserve or fsnet.

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BiscuitCrumbsInBed@reddit

Yahoo.co.uk. My 3rd account but still with Yahoo.co.uk, just changed the account as the first one was a bit cringy. As was the second one too actually.

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Acrobatic_Block4226@reddit

Aol

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JMawds87@reddit

Imma tell you what my first full email address was because I haven’t used it in well over 20+ years but first a brief introduction.

First week of secondary school, September 1998. The classroom is kitted out with all brand spanking new MS98 PC’s and the whole class is told to go on to Hotmail and create an email address because of course email is the future.

Having no creativity to come up with something unusual or the common sense to use my name I decided to go with student@hotmail.com - of course it was taken & if someone did that now it would probably student745987 that would be the lowest possible. The lowest possible in September 98? student6@hotmail.com - only 6 other people had thought of it before me 🤣

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EmergencySausage@reddit

I have a 7 character followed by @aol.com

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waddid@reddit

Compuserve.com I think but I also have a firstbamelastname@hotmail.com with no numbers needed so must be old school. 👌

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Mysterious_Soft7916@reddit

I think mine was Lycos

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Zenith2012@reddit

I had an AOL and a Hotmail but I cant remember which was first. I remember using AIM though

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Clean-Noise8197@reddit

Freeserve etcetc

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ClericalRogue@reddit

AOL.com 😅

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Bee09361@reddit

Still have my OG AOL email that is my main account.

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Flat-Exchange-3688@reddit

First initial, surname at hotmail.com. Just wish you could kill all the spam after 30 years

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pailf@reddit

@ live.com

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obsidianstrobe@reddit (OP)

I’m guessing you’re in your 20’s

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pailf@reddit

yep :) 23

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Fluffy-Exchange-2053@reddit

I'm 41 😳

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pailf@reddit

to be fair my mom made the email for me, the first email i made myself was probably a gmail

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Interest-Desk@reddit

I can’t remember what my first was (I’m 20 but with horrible memory — maybe a hotmail.com or gmail.com I made with my older sister), but the first that I actually liked was live.co.uk or live.com. It just sounded so cool to little me.

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Fluffy-Exchange-2053@reddit

Mine too.

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Low-Ice777@reddit

@live.com just sounded so cool at the time, I remember all my friends had Hotmail and I felt like a bad B

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FairfaxAikman@reddit

Surfy.net

It was a web-based one set up by the school

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smushs88@reddit

Aol and then ask Jeeves for any searches.

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AdFancy7957@reddit

Freeserve

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Poketz@reddit

Tiscali

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Ok-Pirate-6259@reddit

First was a five numeral m8crodoft id. Second Yahoo.co. with my given and family name with no numerals or othervaddition other addition. Still using it.

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tiptoe_mouse@reddit

My very first was @liv.ac.uk, but then when I left uni I had @merseymail.com. Then @madasafish.com, then finally @googlemail.com.

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Neddlings55@reddit

Im still using my first ever email address from Hotmail.

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Neither-Initiative54@reddit

me too. Its at least 27 years old.

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subversivepockets@reddit

Pipex.com. Internet listings were still published in newsstand magazines (ratemynipple etc). Gmail accounts were invite only #ancient

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SilasBeit@reddit

Mad I had that too. ASDL with the weird Stingray modem.

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Klutzy_Brilliant6780@reddit

I think mine was totalise a uk internet provider.

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Drandypandy77@reddit

@ntlworld

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trevpr1@reddit

It was Compuserve.

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alphacentaurai@reddit

Also team Compuserve and then very quickly migrated to AOL.

I still miss the AOL chat rooms. Made a lot of good friends in MusicChatUK haha

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ron_mcphatty@reddit

Have I remember it wrong, or did Compuserve charge 5p (£0.05 in the UK) per email?

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BlueHornedUnicorn@reddit

Loved Compuserve!

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ubiquitousuk@reddit

Me too. And the crazy thing was that you didn't even get to choose the address. You just got assigned a number like 4828.3839@compuserve.com

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JollyMatlot@reddit

Same! The landing page was within their infrastructure, with only a small WWW icon in the cirnrr of the page .... it was scary to click in it!

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TheMightyBattleCat@reddit

It’s been 30 years and I still remember my CompuServe 105277.3525 🤯

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teut509@reddit

Yes, my first email address was an assigned number from CompuServe

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FootballUpset2529@reddit

lol I'm not alone then and I think it was even a number too not a name.

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Quacking_Plums@reddit

I actually worked at Compuserve for a while so I had two accounts as part of the job.

As part of the team who migrated from their proprietary walled garden to internet services I was able to reserve both firstname@ and gaminghandle@ before the service was released to the public. Shame I wasn’t allowed to keep them after I left.

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codzilla@reddit

I was a CompuServer too! From 96-97 in Bristol. That's 30 years ago now... Shit.

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Quacking_Plums@reddit

Top floor of the big grey building just across Bristol Bridge? Samesies!

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northerncodemky@reddit

I broke the family computer when migrating over to the POP3 server so I could get a ‘proper’ email address with compuserve

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sundowner777@reddit

Same - 1994. Connecting to nodes around the world felt like magic at 9.6 kbit/s.

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BismarkBogmark@reddit

I just replied to another comment that mine was at demon until I got here and realised that yes I had a CompuServe account before that.

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whyy_i_eyes_ya@reddit

Mine too. Was weird that as well as the phone you had to pay on top for internet access, until reserve came along.

Remember downloading a freeware fishing game that was 3MB and it took about three hours.

Kids these days will never understand!

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MrPatch@reddit

3MB and it took about three hours.

You say that but I put my nephew in front of the playstation with a game he wanted and the first thing it did was spend a few hours down loading updates, admittedly the same time it took your 3mb we'd done 60gb but the experience was still there.

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DW_555@reddit

Me too

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DarkAgeDesign@reddit

I believe my first one was @lineone.net which was my dialup ISP. After that likely a @blueyonder.co.uk when switching to Cable.

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Spirited_Ad_7537@reddit

Some random numbers @compuserve.something

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Smudger22@reddit

There is another! I still use my @talk21.com email to this very day!

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aperturephotography@reddit

Another for talk21 here

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Ok_Statement_7190@reddit

mine was Joymail..

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IceDiesel77@reddit

@msn was mine 😁

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

Hotmail.com but couldn’t get my name. Got that when hotmail.co.uk was launched…looks like you can’t get one of those anymore…?

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PrettyNobody2342@reddit

Hotmail email. Never went for a name. I had a random user name that I thought was ace. Still have it. It’s full of junk email these days.

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Proud-Alternative333@reddit

I still have my first email from AOL dialup. For obvious reasons...im not posting it...but its original antique and from when you had to listen to the internet connect through the lines.

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grepusman@reddit

Not my first one, but I once had nobody@home.com

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Ill-Appointment6494@reddit

@aol.com

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Akiradragon@reddit

Blueyonder

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ToadInTheHole7181@reddit

Compuserve

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Crookfur@reddit

I've still got and primarily use my talk21 account that I got when I used BT lineone as my first "free" ISP in 1998

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nacnud_uk@reddit

Too late hacker!

I'll it'll you my first password though; atari3t3rcool.

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zcjp@reddit

nickname@tiny.demon.co.uk

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Not-That_Girl@reddit

@blueyonder.co.uk

It was teletext, then Virgin. Im doing up the lounge and only this year removed the teletext box from the wall! Form 2000. Its certainly a relic

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stm2657@reddit

Btinternet

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WillowCreekWanderer@reddit

Mine was btopenworld I think

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ClumsyPersimmon@reddit

I still use my BTOpenworld email! I think btinternet and btopenworld are interchangeable. Had it about 20 years or something like that.

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Chunkweena@reddit

Same

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Saphxmoon@reddit

Still using my btinternet to this day! I get about 20 spam emails a day straight into my main inbox and BT carefully places just one of those into the junk folder.

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racloves@reddit

My parents still use this!

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OzorMox@reddit

This was mine as well. I can still remember the rotating coloured globe thing when it was loading.

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gazchap@reddit

Same for me.

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Florence_Nightgerbil@reddit

I can still access my btinternet.com email

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toomanycourgettes@reddit

And mine!

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EuphoricCover8449@reddit

Me too.

I'm glad I ditched it because it was too long.

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PuzzleheadedLow4687@reddit

My mum and dad still use theirs.

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stm2657@reddit

I think you have to pay for it now which is odd

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CookieDemons@reddit

Same! Surprised to see it’s not more common

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johnboy2417@reddit

Btinternet was my second. Talk21 being the first.

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RaneBera@reddit

I was about to say hotmail but then I remembered my aol.com days in childhood.

I don't usually feel too old at 36 but now I think about how I couldn't use the phone at the same time as the internet and had to wait a few minutes for AOL to 'dial" up to the internet and I now feel 92.

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k_rocker@reddit

Used to work with a woman with an aol email. She still paid £9.99 a month for it.

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Ynoxz@reddit

Also an aol.com user here. Would have been 1997 or so. Still remember hearing ‘you’ve got mail!’ on login!

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StarGazing55@reddit

And then the askjeeves pop-up page.

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Weewoes@reddit

We were taught in school how to ask jeeves stuff.

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DannyOTM@reddit

I remember having to pay per question answered before search engines existed. I think it was called AQA (any question answered)

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Weewoes@reddit

Oh wow thats mental, was it an instant response or you waited for someone to research and find the answer then get back to you? And how much did it cost?

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edyth_@reddit

Aol here too!

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JonnyredsFalcons@reddit

So many free install CD's!

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JonnyredsFalcons@reddit

I've still got & use my AOL account (god knows who owns it these days)

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ultraviolet47@reddit

I thought my dad was the only person left who uses AOL still.

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JonnyredsFalcons@reddit

No, there's 10s of us, 10s!

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simianjim@reddit

It was Yahoo until recently, but now it's the company that owns Evernote and Vimeo

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Absentmined42@reddit

Me too! I mainly use mine for signing up for discounts now though.

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Jeggasyn@reddit

One thing I never knew the answer to (and probably a stupid question) - was that dial up tone the actual sound of the electronic hardware modem or a predetermined sound that a buzzer made on the device?

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spffngly@reddit

It's your modem talking to whatever machine it's connecting too (phone lines carry audio data, so modems have to make noises too to transfer the data). Sounds like nonsense to us, but apparently the screeching actually means something to the machines. If I remember correctly from accidentally getting a fax on a normal phone, faxes machines also make similar noises.

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Mithent@reddit

It playing it out of a speaker during connection is a diagnostic thing, though - of course it actually talks over the phone line, not into your house. If you had the wrong number or if it was engaged etc. then you'd hear something other than the expected handshake which might help you understand what went wrong rather than just seeing 'connection failed' or such.

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spffngly@reddit

Clever!

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porksandrecreation@reddit

Mine was aol and it was something like britneyrulez@aol.com. I wish I still had it. I am still using a hotmail one though so there’s that.

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wolf_in_sheeps_wool@reddit

Memories of a biege Packard Bell computer that gave off enough heat from the CRT to be a radiator, running Windows ME with one program being the AOL application to message and another being OG Runescape. I remember it not being powerful enough to run Runescape 2.

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k_rocker@reddit

I used to work in finance - dealt with a lot of IFAs.

I could pretty accurately age them based on their email address, ntlworld, btconnect, hotmail, aol, yahoo…

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ElectronicHeat6139@reddit

LineOne.net in the 1990s. The change in who owned it/main domain over the years has been interesting,

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OriginalPlonker@reddit

That sounds really familiar. Did they have a dirt cheap dialup deal at one point? We used to hop providers whenever someone cheaper come along.

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MartzReddit@reddit

What change is that?

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ElectronicHeat6139@reddit

Lineone to Tiscali to TalkTalk (now run through Everymail).

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ManyHatsAdm@reddit

Don't forget you have to pay for the privilege now!

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TiltonStagger@reddit

Same. From a cd which came with Computer Active iirc

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InevitableFox81194@reddit

I have firstbamelastname@hotmail.com

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Research_abroad_913@reddit

@ntlword.com

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OriginalPlonker@reddit

Oh God, the flashbacks.

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mehxk@reddit

We had these too! My dad used his until they wrote to him and said they were shutting it down.

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liabilityno1@reddit

It took 3 months to get my MySpace page removed because I got locked out of my ntlworld email 💀😂 pretty sure my dad would still be using it, he hasn't changed his mobile number since his very first mobile 😭😂

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Double_Station_1492@reddit

I vaguely remember them trying to get us to change to @virginmedia dot something but I just ignored it and still using ntlworld to this day

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surreyade@reddit

I still use mine - have some old accounts that still use it and I’ve never been bothered to transfer to my Gmail.

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Proudlove1991@reddit

Same. Still connects okay. My dad made us all one back in the 00s

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mehxk@reddit

Oh wow! Maybe it was his @fsmail one he was asked to give up, I am probably misremembering.

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t0ms88@reddit

Still use mine so they haven't gone.

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thehappyotter34@reddit

We were originally with Diamond Cable, who became NTL who then became Virgin Media. All of the little inspection hatches in the pavements outside the houses in the village still have a diamond on them. Their network must be a right mess of legacy infrastructure as they're a mix of loads of different eras of cable.

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Thick_Airport2650@reddit

You don’t know the half of it. Not just network but systems and records too.

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thehappyotter34@reddit

You sound like someone it causes stress to on a daily basis 😂

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srm79@reddit

Similar here except we were originally Telewest then Cable And Wireless, then NTL and now Virgin

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Kodys_angel@reddit

My mum still uses this and won’t change internet providers purely because she doesn’t wanna lose the one and only email address she’s ever had!

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ooooomikeooooo@reddit

My mum only stopped using hers last year.

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HereticLaserHaggis@reddit

Virgin media still get me to login with my ntlworld email.

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platypuss1871@reddit

Same here

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AlternativeGreedy787@reddit

My blueyonder.co.uk email account is still active but I never used it - last time I checked it still has the occasional Virgin email regarding updates and offers etc.

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No-Snow-9605@reddit

firstnamesurname @ntlworld.com

Taken over by Virgin Media.

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Barmydoughnut24@reddit

It still is mine 😅

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Code_NY@reddit

Same but long forgotten. I've still got access to my @msn.com one though.

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Tigweg@reddit

@mdx.ac.uk, I didn't need an email address before I became a student in 1992

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OriginalPlonker@reddit

An early one was virgin.net but I think there was something called emarkt.com that was a free dialup effort.

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CaptainMcClutch@reddit

Mine is still Hotmail, I've had it for so long that I'd gotten locked out of it like a decade ago and had to phone them to tell them I didn't know the details to sign into my backup because that was like a decade old at that time and literally just a backup but I'd made it when I was like 16 so couldn't remember that one off password.

The guy asked me my security question which was something like who are your favourite historical figures and I told him I was pretty certain I'd put down Jessica Alba and Hitler, needless to say I changed my security question incase this ever occurred again. However he was impressed by my knowledge of my 150k+ emails that I'd never deleted.

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mastfest@reddit

I got locked out of mine about 15 years ago. Every time I do the online form to try and get back in they’re like “fuck right off.” I know what’s happened though, some bastard has got into it and changed the recovery email address.

I didn’t know you could phone them!

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VooDooBooBooBear@reddit

Hahaha, this resonated with me. I used to play an online game (forgot which it was) and I got locked out of my account. Had to ring up and do the same and my favourite historical figure was down as Hitler also... such an edgy teenager I was, I felt mortified on the phone call. The oeprator had the chocie of 3 different security questions and of course chose that one

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Pezzza_@reddit

I might see if I can get my account back this way.

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2kKenny@reddit

@wanadoo

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Demdarules@reddit

@homebase.co.uk

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Ill-Championship1834@reddit

I remember a site where you could generate your prefix and suffix. Found it hilarious at 12 to have

[my name] @thebusstop.com

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Rhinoceraptor37@reddit

Yahoo.com back in 95 I think. I was accessing chat rooms prior to that back when all you needed was a funny username.

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pix1985@reddit

Still using my @msn.com one

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RegretEasy8846@reddit

Blueyonder.com

OLD!

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ForeverDreaming89@reddit

I have a relative that still uses their blueyonder email address. I'd never heard of it until they mentioned it!

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RegretEasy8846@reddit

I’m surprised it still works, it must be 20yrs old.

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QuestNetworkFish@reddit

I had an @cableinet.co.uk address before it changed to Blueyonder. Ancient.

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RegretEasy8846@reddit

Where I lived in Liverpool it was one of the trial areas, though I think it’d been rolled out in Scotland before that, I just remember green tubing being installed everywhere and roads dug up for ‘cable’, a revolutionary thing at the time. No idea exactly when it was but it must have been not long after the millennium. I vaguely remember what I thought was cablenet, but maybe it was cableinet.

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Upstairs_Read_1068@reddit

Same.

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Suspicious_Hotel_908@reddit

Aye, same

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sadsack100@reddit

Same! SAME!

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Honest-Adagio4026@reddit

Tesco.net from the 90s

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liabilityno1@reddit

Took almost 3 months to get my MySpace page taken down because I couldn't get into my ntlworld email 💀😂

I still have Hotmail and yahoo, I also had an AOL email at some point 🙈😂

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Dear_Statistician494@reddit

AOL.com with the Joanna Lumley greeting, You've got mail.

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crispycat40@reddit

Hotmail. But I still use my Gmail account that I set up when they were first available. 2005 maybe?

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PissTitsAndBush@reddit

@mac.com

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Ambc_666@reddit

@boltblue.com It died in 2011 - It was a ringtones/sms providor.

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Meanz_Beanz_Heinz@reddit

I had a Scotmail one, haven't seen it mentioned yet.

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Philbradley@reddit

Twilight@demon.co.uk was mine. That would have been in about 1992.

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phobosinadamant@reddit

Ntlworld.com, still use it!

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JusRap@reddit

hotmail.co.uk and I still use it

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Limp_Ganache2983@reddit

First name last name @netscape.com. I’ve also got a yahoo address, and an AOL one I still use.

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Emmalulu2907@reddit

I believe I had an @aol.com at one point - if not Hotmail

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undoneyet@reddit

CIX, 1987

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softstone86@reddit

Excite for me.

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

We had AOL when we first got internet so I guess I did have an AOL address briefly earliest one I remember was a BT one and it was either btinternet or openworld

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adm010@reddit

I want to say compuserve

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per1983@reddit

I had “random user name” @ another.com

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matthaus79@reddit

Probably Demon Internet or Hotmail

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BicycleFired@reddit

Anyone remember Monkey.co.uk

They were supposed to be the first Amazon

I also think we had a Netscape..?

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JenJMLC@reddit

Yahoo

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Prior_Psychology_150@reddit

@yahoo.com

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Low-Opening25@reddit

hotmail in the 90’s, but I bought my own domain and maintained my own mail server until Gmail

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Excite dot co dot uk

Late 1999

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Caldtek@reddit

Got firstnamelastname at both hotmail and gmail.

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OneOfTheNephilim@reddit

cwcom.net - Cable & Wireless...

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Smooth_Piece1573@reddit

I think my first one was yahoo buy ill have to ask jeeves

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CROC101@reddit

name@inbox.com …. About 1999

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danabrey@reddit

freeserve.org.uk

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roblawton@reddit

Compuserve (which was an assigned email with a load of numbers) but then I managed to talk my parents into getting Freeserve!

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awwwwJeezypeepsman@reddit

Hotmail. Still have it

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HR_Specter@reddit

I had a Freeserve e-mail address and still have my AOL one.

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HansGruberLove@reddit

Ntl.

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garybpt@reddit

Freeserve… 👴

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Disastrous-Buy-6645@reddit

emailaccount.com

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F_DOG_93@reddit

mail.com

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CheesecakeZookeeper@reddit

AOL!

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SB-121@reddit

hotmail.com

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blondgavster@reddit

I had phx.cam.ac.uk at uni mid 80s. Email at work arrived in maybe the early 90s. We’d have had a Lotus Notes one at first and then my employers own one.

My first “home” one was freeserve one.

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btec-gamer@reddit

I was a BTInternet girl! Back in the late-00s/early-2010s when my parents set up my first email account, that was the accounts they had, so it was the account I got.

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ipokethemonfast@reddit

@Aol

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zah_ali@reddit

Yahoo. I moved over to gmail several years later. My older brother still uses his yahoo address, makes me laugh/smile with the nostalgia

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Murphysmydog@reddit

I have @me.com

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AWildAndWoolyWastrel@reddit

Hotmail, back when it was still cool and I could use my name without numbers.

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Mr_Laz@reddit

@FSmail

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Joe_Tag_@reddit

Myname@tiscali.co.uk , had the same for Hotmail.co.uk as well. Also got first.last & last.first@gmail and the same at mail.com

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Whithorsematt@reddit

Bath.ac.uk in 1994. Dad was on AOL at tbe time and still has the same account.

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pjberlov@reddit

Did anybody else register their first email address with another.com? No? Just me?

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Professional-Tea-231@reddit

@lineone.net @tiscali.net

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Electrical-Cress-996@reddit

mine is mail(myname), my parents made it for me to play facebook games lmao

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Organic_Armadillo_10@reddit

My very first was Yahoo. I then swapped to Hotmail which is still my main one today. I stopped using the yahoo one properly, and then when I went to check it years later it had been wiped and lost everything in it so then gave up on that one.

I also have Gmail now, but that's basically my junk mail one when I have to log in or sign up to sites. I hate how it looks and works (plus couldn't just get my name on it even though I was still able to sign up to it early on).

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mskubelik@reddit

Other than my uni email, my first was from Another.com back in 99/00 maybe. You could choose your end domain as well as your ‘name’ e.g ‘princess@chocoholic.com’ (mine wasn’t this, but also not far off!). I then dabbled with hotmail until I got a decent Gmail when it was invite only.

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Dewsy_@reddit

Excite..! Flashback is real..

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Dhorlin@reddit

@aol.com

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_blacknails@reddit

@blueyonder

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BlackfordHill@reddit

Mid 1980s. @cernvax.cern.ch

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xDzerx@reddit

AOL.com lmao

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ewokpadawan@reddit

AOL

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matthewmayer@reddit

@xoom.com

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Flight1ess@reddit

I think I was 7 when someone told me that I was old enough to get my own email address. Made it using yahoo and was so excited to share memes lmao

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Frosty-Classic-8737@reddit

lol I still use it to this day @aol.com 🤣

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JustMrChops@reddit

innotts.co.uk, back when I went online. Don't miss that 33K modem.

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MrBlackledge@reddit

Hotmail. Then Live which I still use from time to time

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nigee1@reddit

Hotmail.com in the uk in 1996 because the co.uk domain didn’t exist. Had an email earlier but was assigned with the dial up internet provider. I didn’t want to be tied to something that might disappear or have to pay for down the road.

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Maleficent-Ninja-810@reddit

Yahoo

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TheSaladDodger420@reddit

@aol.com

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WarriorDerp@reddit

@aol motherfucker. I waa surfing the chat rooms at 7 and didn't get nonced

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puffle-uk@reddit

@o2.co.uk. Doesn't exist any more of course. I was most put out when I had to move everything to Gmail

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TheMartinCox@reddit

101611.514@compuserve.com but I don’t remember what I had for dinner last Saturday

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mjstokes85@reddit

@freeserve.net

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triptip05@reddit

Lycos.

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hellaparadoxial9614@reddit

Technically outlook.com as my dad set it up for me, but the first one that I made was gmail.com

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longsite2@reddit

I think my dad still has his @tinyworld.co.uk account.

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Due_Tailor1412@reddit

name@radio.cs A country that doesn't exist anymore ..

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ljdug1@reddit

firstnamelastname@blueyonder.co.uk

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katiehasaraspberry@reddit

AOL!

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Ergophobe470@reddit

Yahoo.co.uk. I signed up for it because it wasn't Hotmail, which everyone else seemed to use, and I wanted to be different.

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sf-keto@reddit

FidoNet.

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TheMightyBattleCat@reddit

The BBS era was the golden age.

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sf-keto@reddit

Cannot disagree.

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Odd_Cryptographer941@reddit

Ntlworld.com, Yahoo.com and Hotmal.com all from about 2004.

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Nervous-Lawyer-9711@reddit

AOL.co.uk but I got it in 2014 when I was 8🤔

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Choice-Lemon4500@reddit

Hotmail. I saw the adverts in magazines and I think I was one of the first of my friends to get an email address. Wish I'd chosen a better email address though!

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Substantial_Prize_73@reddit

@dsl.pipex.com from memory.

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String-Good@reddit

Supernet

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rupertbarnes@reddit

My email address was my domain name, which I bought in the 90’s. Early dialup days. Still got it.

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StNeotsCitizen@reddit

AOL back when the username could only be ten characters long

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MGNConflict@reddit

Yahoo, and then GMail (which I’ve had since 2009).

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Useful_Hawk_1470@reddit

ntlworld, only lost it a couple years ago when we switched away from Virgin (who I think bought the ntlworld domain like 25 years ago)

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rbskaa@reddit

Mine was @supanet.com

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MyMaisie@reddit

@madasafish which I loved but unfortunately it was tied to my home PC which was too limiting.

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UnlimitedLove2010@reddit

Blue yonder was my first I believe. I still use my 2004 Gmail address which I grabbed on Beta. I still have emails in my sent folder with 3mb MP3 files of songs I used to email from school in order to have access to tunes at home, good times!

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Mark1912@reddit

Either @AOL or @freeserve I think.

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Free_Ad7415@reddit

Hotmail in Year 8….2000 ish? still have it, still use it 😎

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xxMarvelGeekxx@reddit

Aol

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ignatiusjreillyXM@reddit

CompuServe. First part of my email address was numeric with a comma in the middle.

Not strictly true as I'd had a university email address last an undergradiate for a few years at that point, but that was well ahead of the game or widespread public use of email

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Tightning@reddit

@ic24.net

Wish I could access it still, my Habbo Hotel account is tied to that…

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flooftumbleweeds@reddit

Hotmail.com

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Unlikely-Jicama4176@reddit

My first was Redrival. Got it recommended to me by someone in a chat room for the games I was playing at the time.

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butterscotchwhip@reddit

demon dot co dot uk. What all the cool kids were using, best prices by far!

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Feisty_Type3650@reddit

Netscape - it was the one our university used

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DustWild8322@reddit

Yes, talk21 as I was at uni then and worked in a BT call centre. We weren't allowed to access Hotmail etc at work but when they started talk21, we were allowed to use that. I can remember someone getting into trouble for being caught with Hotmail open on their screen 🤣

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shez19833@reddit

excite.. i think it was..

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anabsentfriend@reddit

@madasafish.com

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juicy_johnster@reddit

My first was demon.co.uk - and at that time it was easy to hoover up any names from the catholic church's handy demonology lists, so variously, metatron, belphegor, axxon were my usernames and maybe a couple of others.

Later on I moved to claranet, pipex etc as services improved. Eventually, after about 10 years paying for domain names, battling with mailservers etc meant that I succumbed to hotmail and gmail which are so much easier for individuals.

At first I had the odd distinction of being one of the first two domestic consumers with broadband on the Fulham exchange, and the BT installation engineers were so excited that for a few months they used to ring me up to make sure that everything was working nicely!

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yoldaki@reddit

It was @eurosport.com

I don't know how and why they were doing it but myname@eurosport.com was pretty cool. I wish i still have that.

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ArseBiscuits@reddit

It was Freeserve but the oldest email account I still have access to is hotmail. I registered it around 2001 or 2002.

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opop456@reddit

Had AOL, earliest email I remember. The days of having dial-up iirc

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Shyaustenwriter@reddit

Demon.co.uk

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GL510EX@reddit

My first was which.net, I think, then compuserve, then yahoo, then hotmail, then gmail.

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ladybayliving@reddit

Anyone remember a site that I think was called any.com? You could literally make any email address, changing the bit before and after the @. Like tinkerbell@peterpan.co.uk for example or little_miss_tidy@mistermen.co.uk - you could have about ten different ones as well, and it was free!

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Adventurous-Shoe4035@reddit

Not mine but my grandads was Tinyworld.co.uk

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Not_Alpha_Centaurian@reddit

Lightslayer1@hotmail.com I was a Buffy fan

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Zealousideal-Soil-41@reddit

Hotmail and aol.com

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Background_Rub_441@reddit

@blueyonder.co.uk

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ReluctantZebraLife@reddit

AOL I think! Even though I'm British it was always America Online!

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ItGoesUpItGoesDown@reddit

@msn.com

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glaxay5000@reddit

Sames, I use it for all my junk shit

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kronkswronglever@reddit

To this day 😂

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andreas2626@reddit

Yes! Still use mine too. Over my dead body will I ever migrate to Hotmail or outlook

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WiseMenFear@reddit

Same. Still use mine! I never migrated it to Hotmail or to Outlook.

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tacticall0tion@reddit

The oldest address I have I believe are, @googlemail.com, and @orange.co.uk.

I've also hold @btinternet.co.uk, @hotmail.co.uk, @AOL.co.uk address

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Snoopy2010uk@reddit

I think freeserve was the first family email, but my first personal one was a @excite.com or something like that

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bricker_1_9@reddit

mom set up a hotmail account for me when i was a teen so naturally i never used it and created my own with yahoo 😄

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marcdk217@reddit

Yahoo.co.uk, then Googlemail.com (I still have that domain instead of gmail) then Hotmail.co.uk

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CarpetGripperRod@reddit

.ac.uk

There was no "home internet" when I were a lad... Hell, even IP over Avian Carriers was considered bleeding-edge tech, a big upgrade over two baked bean cans and a piece of string.

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CmdrSpaceMonkey@reddit

(College name).ac.uk - this was back in the mid 90s. Not many of us had internet at home back then.

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Gadget100@reddit

Same here. Didn’t get a non-uni email until some time later.

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VioletFireCat@reddit

Pretty sure mine was a post office one that I don't think exists anymore?? No idea. After that, though, Hotmail, which I still use.

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BryOnRye@reddit

Lycos.co.uk (I think, it could have been .com)

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BassplayerDad@reddit

Msn.com

Olden but golden

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Akoot@reddit

My first was also talk21! Signed up to neopets with it

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

I had a Hotmail, my mud still uses Hotmail

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MiserablePool1725@reddit

Hotmail - and just firstname@hotmail.com - yep I’m old!

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LimesFruit@reddit

googlemail.com so yeah not as old as y’all here but still old enough to be cool.

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Ok-Zookeepergame-698@reddit

@msn.com. I still use it as my primary email. It’s been over thirty years.

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Herlock-Sholme5@reddit

exite.com i think was my first, when they shut I went to yahoo and hotmail, before changing to gmail.

Still have yahoo, hotmail and live.com emails

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8racoonsInABigCoat@reddit

I’ve still got it - first_last@yahoo.com. That there are no numbers or other extra characters should tell you I’ve had it quite some time! About 1996.

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mr_vestan_pance@reddit

Mine was netserve.net when I got my first dial up internet service using a Mac and a US robotics 9600 modem, sometime around 96/7.

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NobleKorhedron@reddit

My first was a free account, with domain @eircom.net

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Easy_Top_3311@reddit

PIPEX Dial.

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2mankyhookers@reddit

MyfirstNameMyMrsFirstname@freenetname.co.uk, it's been through a few internet providers in its 28ish years , but still in use

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ol-Sean-lo@reddit

@aol.com probably early noughties

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Imadeutscher@reddit

@live.com

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GuiltyCredit@reddit

I still use my aol email. When giving my email at an appointment the young girl asked how to spell aol thinking it was a word. I felt ancient.

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t3rm3y@reddit

AOL.com possibly, I'm pretty sure access was created via a cd that was used possibly to create the account , before modem dial up connected.

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FableAndFemme@reddit

Demon back in 1995

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Top_Egg7315@reddit

Tiscali I'm 25 now

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quoole@reddit

@live.co.uk

Apparently it came after Hotmail, but I remember Hotmail addresses coming after! It's one of the rarer Microsoft domains.

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wotsit_sandwich@reddit

Hotmail.

But then a friend sent me an invite to Gmail. I'm showing my age by having to be invited to get Gmail.

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quat1e@reddit

@yahoo.co.uk

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Exciting_Ocelot_2976@reddit

Still using my @talk21.com address

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Linusami@reddit

Excite.com

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AzLoMax@reddit

AOL.com

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_Anxious_Hedgehog_@reddit

Ntlworld.com

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chuckiestealady@reddit

tiscali.co.uk

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Carrnage74@reddit

Compuserve.com. And it was a numbered username separated by a full stop.

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duvagin@reddit

ftech.co.uk ... a time when the dial-up ISP provided POP3 for your chosen email client over my newest US Robotics modem

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Standard-Limit-6116@reddit

First personal email domain was cableinet.co.uk which was for Telewest dial up services, 1999 I believe. My dad upgraded to Telewests Blueyonder during 2001 and I then used blueyonder.co.uk.

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simonk1905@reddit

Second this. cableinet.co.uk was my first. Changed to hotmail just before microsoft bought them and I am still using that one today.

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Single-Samurai@reddit

Tiscali

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Visible_Star_4036@reddit

Mine was @sheffield.ac.uk

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EndOne8313@reddit

I recently had to email my brother something for the first time ever and his was @googlemail.com. He said he had to get an invite code to get an account when he made his. I vaguely remember that but I think I used Hotmail at the time.

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MrNesjo@reddit

Piped

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Leather-Expression-5@reddit

Hotmail.com. The holy grail of late 90s /early 00’s email.

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OfaFuchsAykk@reddit

AOL, hotmail…

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ZaphodG@reddit

bbn.com in 1987. One of the original internet companies. They manufactured the routers for the internet back then. I could see the Boston skyline from my office window. I had a Sun workstation on my desk.

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AmputatedStarfish@reddit

I had KOL, which was AOL but for kids. I think it was around 2006?

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Filfield_no1@reddit

Same one I still have and use along side Gmail but many things still registered to Hotmail!

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No_Cod2216@reddit

Had arnold_schwarz@hotmail.com back in the day

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HoldsworthsLeftHand@reddit

Mine was @ntlworld.com. I had NTL cable tv/phone line before it was bought out by Virgin.

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Agfa72@reddit

Ntlworld.com

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martbart87@reddit

Gmail here. I got it when it was still invite only, and my handle is very short and simple.

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Chemist1972@reddit

Bigfoot.com, it was a redirect domain to my @telewest.co.uk

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PeteSampras12345@reddit

There’s a business near me still using a .btconnect.co.uk email address 😱

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gregrph@reddit

It was when the Boston Computer Society first got emain in 1984 I believe. I don't remember what it was. bcs.com maybe? I still use mindspring.com

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Waftycrank69@reddit

Kermit

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BobDude65@reddit

Ntlworld.com

Recently lost my 15 year old Xbox account because they’ve suddenly decided that I need to get a code from an email that hasn’t existed in over a decade to login.

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Legitdude9182@reddit

I was @hotmail.com

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mykeuk@reddit

My dad still uses his talk21 email address, even though yahoo took it over and now charge for its use.

My first ever email was with hotmail.com which I still use today. I made it when I was doing my A-levels back in 1999/2000 so it's over a quarter of a century old now. Sadly I don't have any of the original emails I ever received on it though as I routinely had to delete them for space.

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PotatoPeeler58@reddit

@aol.com

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Wooden_Astronaut4668@reddit

hotmail!

I still use the hotmail email address set up for me by a mate in 1998, so they could contact me when I went on a spanish exchange 🤣

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DesperateOven9854@reddit

Yahoo.co.uk if I remember rightly. I may have had another set up previously, but yahoo was def the first one I used.

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iamabigtree@reddit

@ncl.ac.uk

Like I suspect many in the 90s I first got online at university.

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Jealous_Problem356@reddit

AOL.

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T140V@reddit

GBG54LF@ibmmail.com, in around 1990.

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Cirias@reddit

Yahoo followed by Hotmail which I still use today

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jaarn@reddit

tiscali.com I think. I was about 7 or 8

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RetroBoxRoom@reddit

Fidonet.org I can't remember all the numbers before it

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Grumblefloor@reddit

And having to dial in to download KA9Q.

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Rubberfootman@reddit

Same. And you could tell what sort of modem you were calling from the handshake noises.

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ARobertNotABob@reddit

Mine was 10041.9999, a CompuServe address, from before the www even came to be.

When it did, I had first(underscore)last@HoTMaiL.com (from HTML, for those not aware), which is now @Outlook.com.
Later I had first.last@googlemail.com, now gmail.com.

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Lanky_Bus_1221@reddit

Mine was xxxx@lunarbase1.fsworld.co.uk

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StrangerOk1831@reddit

Late 90s, firstnamelastname@hotmail.co.uk . I've even had a school ex-boyfriend find me by guessing that's what it would be, and that I'd still have it accessible.

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PARFT@reddit

bbc

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ctesibius@reddit

xytech.uucp. We only used UUCP as far as an Internet gateway, so we didn’t need to muck around with bangpaths except in sendmail.cf.

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Rezley-Snipes@reddit

somename@compuserve.com

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Big-Resist-99999999@reddit

Compuserve, around 1997?

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dinotoxic@reddit

My first email address was an @tiscali.co.uk address. Shout out to any other Brits that share the same 😆

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fake_cheese@reddit

\@zynet.co.uk 1994

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Firthy2002@reddit

My very first one was a Demon one through school back in 1995. The main drawback was the obviously limited access to it which I could only do at certain points of the school day.

However I created a Yahoo account around 1998 which I could access whenever I was somewhere with the Internet (which tended to be cybercafes outside of school). I still keep it active as an emergency backup.

Later on I also created a Hotmail account (also still active but not my primary account). And when we finally got the Internet at home I ended up with an AOL account (which no longer exists).

I also signed up for a talk21.com account at some point (which no longer exists) for reasons that I can't remember.

I think at one point I had 7 active email accounts I could be reached on.

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shazj57@reddit

Still use it shazj@ ..

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anarchtea@reddit

Direct Connection, I think it was dircon.com or .co.uk, back in 1997. Hotmail quickly followed.

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Cornelius-Figgle@reddit

Mine has always been a custom one my dad setup way before I was born😂

Gmail and only Gmail other than that.

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Bilb-@reddit

AOL.com :(

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mk6971@reddit

Hotmail

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sangreblue@reddit

Yahoo in 1999, via Altavista

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Separate_Fun_2850@reddit

@googlemail which morphed in to @gmail

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Foxiestofstoats@reddit

@aol.com

Kinda hard to place because I'm British but still shows my age 😂

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NighthawkUnicorn@reddit

I had a talk21 too. My first email address ever. I don't remember the email but I remember the password still.

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Wonderful-Cow-9664@reddit

@another.com

Short lived I think. 3rd year at college around 2000/2001 and they made us sign up for an email account. I had absolutely no use for it.

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Anon_on_internet@reddit

dial.pipex.

My first (dialup, of course!) ISP

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JollyMatlot@reddit

Mine was before hotmail and freeserve! 1466585184@Compuserve.com

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redcircle1313@reddit

Hotmail, way back before it was owned by Microsoft and was called HoTMaiL

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hookbeak@reddit

Demon.co.uk. They had a grand total of four lines in our area. So four people only could access the internet at a time in our city. We just used to leave it on redial for hours until it connected. Then, as it was 10p a minute you’d quickly download all the Usenet headers and disconnect again.

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TheIhsaan7@reddit

Still got my Hotmail.

I remember msn. Peak social media 😅.

Man i feel old.

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Dissour@reddit

@googlemail.com before it changed ro gmail.com

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Vast_Cycle6990@reddit

You probably already know this but you can still use googlemail.com and it goes to your Gmail. Useful for signing up for trials and stuff.

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anarchtea@reddit

Do you have email addresses like e.m.a.il+spamsignup@googlemail.com ?

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Unlikely-Opening2485@reddit

Poptart@fiberia.com 🤣

https://web.archive.org/web/19990831023028/http://home.fiberia.com/root/nph-redirect.cgi?/

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sjplep@reddit

University when I was a student. Pre-WWW (but had access to Usenet).

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brokenlandmine@reddit

Aol. Com or Hotmail. 😂

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Grumblefloor@reddit

University - doc.ic.ac.uk.

Well before Hotmail and its ilk existed, when there were only a handful of commercial ISPs around.

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sihasihasi@reddit

@tesco.net, I think. c. 1995, or thereabouts.

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EvandeReyer@reddit

Yeah I think mine was either Tesco.net or btinternet.com (apart from my university email which was my actual first email)

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Pizzagoessplat@reddit

Its still my main email address.

.............@yahoo.co.uk

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foxprorawks@reddit

Not quite the same, but I’m saying fidonet.org.

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Gouldy444444@reddit

Yahoo

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_c0mical@reddit

i guess one from the AOL CDs that you used to get on magazines and through the mail, tiscali is another one that I remember

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FootballUpset2529@reddit

Fuck, I think it was compuserve.

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Chunkylover0053@reddit

@bigfoot.com service and just redirected to whatever isp i was with at the time.

eventually though they enshitified the service (it was supposed to be for life, but assume they cam ed to realise a free email with zero advertising for life wasn’t possible) so i just went for one of the first @googlemail.com things from some startup or other. still using it (although have switched to the shorter snappier gmail.com version), still spam free.

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Vequihellin@reddit

I think my first ever email domain was actually Yahoo. I don't think I've signed into that account in so long I have no idea if it even still exists.

Once I got a Hotmail address I just used that.

But this really will show my age - I used to have a bunch of custom email addresses on 'another.com' until it turned into a paid service. Once it went paid, usership dropped off drastically and they disappeared completely.

It was fun while it lasted though. I was a big X-Files fan back in the day and I had myname@ibelieve.co.uk lol

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jaywast@reddit

altern.org

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ot1smile@reddit

First was Hotmail, then mac very soon after and that’s still my email

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Far-Dimension3508@reddit

Rocketmail way out there and still works

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ribenarockstar@reddit

Which.net ! In about 2001

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catasha7@reddit

My husband still uses his @yahoo.co.uk one not sure how old that is

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Shadow_UK@reddit

@tinyworld.co.uk when I bought my first PC bundle from Tiny in 99!

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madnasher@reddit

Hotmail.co.uk

Back before it was .com only 😂

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ChangingMonkfish@reddit

hotmail.com

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ShqueakBob@reddit

ymail.com(yahoo) and Hotmail.com

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Binners297@reddit

@msn.com

Got set up for me when I was like 10, and I still use it to this day, I only have 2 emails lmao

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RelativeShoulder370@reddit

Mine was Supernet, part of BT. But it was not as a teenager as the internet didn't exist then 😂

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abyssal-isopod86@reddit

Hotmail.com

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br0wn0ni0n@reddit

Think it was a demon.co.uk (or maybe it was .com, I don’t remember)

I doubt anyone else remembers demon internet.

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Witty-Following6541@reddit

aol.com

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LinuxMage@reddit

@ntl.com. I also had a work email domain I could use. This was around 1997.

I also had a freeserve email account as well.

After that, I had one of the early @googlemail accounts before it was changed to gmail.

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Perpetua11y_C0nfused@reddit

The better question is what was your first search engine?

Ask Jeeves 😂

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RelativeShoulder370@reddit

Me too

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SixFiveOhTwo@reddit

Altavista

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agent_violet@reddit

Mine was also @talk21.com, from 1999. It's long gone by now

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Dynamiccookie14@reddit

Mines always been Gmail but my Mum's was until very recently @tiscali.co.uk! And my Dad still uses @Btinternet.com

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scarletOwilde@reddit

I have an AOL one somewhere. And I have some with my full name and no numbers!

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teedyay@reddit

My first email address was from the university I was attending: that was the first time I’d ever seen an email.

The first one I got for myself was @supanet.co.uk, because they put a flyer through my letterbox about the same time I got a modem.

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SloaneEsq@reddit

celtic.co.uk was a small ISP on Colchester Avenue in Cardiff, Wales.. 1995. I'm sure there are posts on newsgroups from me with that domain archived somewhere.

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NthLondonDude@reddit

It’s still yahoo.com and I love it

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JakeRiddoch@reddit

Abdn.ac.uk, Aberdeen University. My first personal one I think was wintermute.co.uk, now defunct ISP in Aberdeen.

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SloaneEsq@reddit

celtic.co.uk was a small ISP on Colchester Avenue in Cardiff, Wales.. 1995. I'm sure there are posts on newsgroups from me with that domain archived somewhere.

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Alexander-Wright@reddit

mygapyearplacement.co.uk

Later york.ac.uk then demon.co.uk

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HashDefTrueFalse@reddit

Early on I had aol, yahoo, tiscali. Can't remember which was first, but I'd guess aol. These days my own because I have my own server which is set up for mail for some side projects (for fun).

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Pristine-Bet-5764@reddit

@aol.com

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Nevis888@reddit

Compuserve.con

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waxcrayonupmynose@reddit

Blueyonder...

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CallMe_Noodle@reddit

@msn.com

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DevilishlyHandsome63@reddit

AOL,and that's still my main email address!🤣

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snarkycrumpet@reddit

Hotmail but then Talk21 as they had sms notification so you didn't unplug the phone, plug in the computer and boot up AOL for nothing with them

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cackiwhack@reddit

First name_last name@hotmail.com I have a very common first and last name too!

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LettuceItchy@reddit

Not mine, but real ones know about @blueyonder

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Depress-Mode@reddit

Hotmail. My second was a beta Google Mail account.

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nothisactualname@reddit

@madasafish.com

Unbelievably was still going till 2016!

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Silvatek@reddit

Compuserve

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SocieteRoyale@reddit

@merseymail.com..... a completely defunct local email system for Liverpool

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nfurnoh@reddit

Yahoo.com, and I still use it. My earliest email on there is from May 2000.

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Abitruff@reddit

AOL or yahoo

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grandmasterbester@reddit

AOL.com lol

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RaisinRainbow@reddit

excite.co.uk - that was waaay back!!

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Brookiekathy@reddit

@karoo.co.uk

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TheSmokeyGiant031@reddit

Blue yonder 🫣

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doihavetousethis@reddit

Globalinternet.net

First email from school was Hotmail.com

ICQ number in the low 5 figures

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delicious_brains818@reddit

Freeserve. Followed by msn.

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melanie110@reddit

I had an @lycos one years and years ago, then an @btinternet.com now a gmail

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robhall1@reddit

@blueyonder.co.uk. And AOL

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El_Zilcho@reddit

yahoo.co.uk

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westofcentre@reddit

cix.co.uk from 1987. Still got it too.
I did have earlier email addresses from BL Comet but they weren't RFC822 compliant so only worked inside the organisation. I had a Prestel address from BT too, but again not the universal service that we now associate with email.
I did write gateways between our internal company mail and the new universal service and was told by IT experts that email between organisations would never catch on and to take it down.

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pgnlzbth@reddit

Hotmail.com

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nogardleirie@reddit

My then-country's official internet provider

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Fuzzy_Percentage5873@reddit

@talk21.com

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badger906@reddit

Think mine was freeserve or BT cell net

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Nomis1982@reddit

I had a btinternet address back in the day. I managed to get myself firstname middleinitial lastname Gmail address many years ago, without the need for any random numbers, which is quite satisfying.

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llufnam@reddit

@freeserve.co.uk

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Outside-Sherbet-9448@reddit

I think it was Tiscali got dialup, when I turned 17 and started working part time I paid for 512Kb ADSL with V21.

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spannermeetworks@reddit

Someone@demon.co.uk ....

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CaptainMCMLVIII@reddit

Compuserve. Lots of numbers on a dial up modem.

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madman1255@reddit

@hotmail

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bluebellwould@reddit

Yahoo, used for logging into MySpace of course.

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NuisancePenguin44@reddit

I used another.Com. You could then choose a personalised domain from a huge list.

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Monkeybox21@reddit

@supanet.com

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misterlambe@reddit

junglemail.co.uk

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xQueenAurorax@reddit

Can’t believe I scrolled so far and didn’t see gmail. I feel like such a baby

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Key_Television_1910@reddit

@blueyonder

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Silure@reddit

I remember my friends all having an @ purpleturtle email address. Think by the time I made one I went with hotmail.

Just had a quick google can't see that purple turtle still exists or any information about it.

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ChiaraRimini@reddit

I think mine was .aol in 1997 although I had first name.surname@hotmail. Lost the password many years ago. I then had first name.surname@gmail.com and still have that.

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tharrison4815@reddit

I can’t remember for sure but I would guess @ntlworld.com

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steven71@reddit

UKonline. Doubt anyone remembers them. This would have been around 1998/99

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ouzo84@reddit

First was Hotmail, but I think googlemail probably ages me more.

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Benreh@reddit

An angelfire.Com or bluemountain.Com One in the early 90s iirc, plus all the other yahoo and hotmail lycos ones that everyone had.

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stuarttevendale@reddit

@wintermute.co.uk Aberdeen-based isp in early 90s.

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JohnLef@reddit

Pre any of the big mail services we have today - can't remember which I had first, all via dialup of course, 9600 or 14.4k baud.

lineone.net (via Psion) AOL.com Demon.co.uk Freeserve

Before that I had an email address at Uni, Late 80's, so ending .ac.uk

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quellflynn@reddit

myname@hotmail.com

no excess numbers, no changes.

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jesussays51@reddit

I have myname@gmail.com this was back in the day when you had to be invited to get an account

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ambientfruit@reddit

Same here. I got an invite and I wasn't even a little smug about it. It was prestige back in the day.

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umngaz@reddit

Same, opened my account in 2004. I then invited my OH and made accounts for both my sons who were children at the time. They've both since locked themselves out of their accounts, but OH and I still have ours.

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Wingskull@reddit

Same here

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n8te85@reddit

Same.

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ktitten@reddit

I wonder when they started rolling out Hotmail.co.uk? All my family is Hotmail.co.uk. Unsure if we had any choice in it.

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Fireynay@reddit

There was a choice 11 years ago. I have firstname_maidenname@hotmail.com from when my teacher set it up in around 1999, when I got married I wanted firstname_marriedname@hotmail.com. The default was definitely .co.uk but there was a way to change it, which I did. I still have access to my old one, it's where my Microsoft account is tied to and still get the occasional email to it, but most goes through my married name now. I'm now divorced (kept the name to be the same as my daughter and avoid the faff) and wonder if I'll be able to get another one if/when I marry again lol.

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Slow-Bookkeeper7021@reddit

Mine was Hotmail. Made when I was around 10 so I could sign up and play online games. The email address was along the lines of cute_firstname207@hotmail.co.uk 😫😂

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fanacapoopan@reddit

Hotmail and I still have it.

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Present_Bandicoot154@reddit

@virgin.net

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AlwaysTheKop@reddit

AOL.com

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SavingsFeature504@reddit

Not really my age. But my Google email address is still @googlemail.com as opposed to G Mail.

I used to get a pop up saying do you want to migrate it and I just said no. Those pop ups stopped about 6 years ago 🤣🤣🤣

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Max_Power_332@reddit

Old enough that I had my name with no numbers on both Hotmail and Google.

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infinitewowbagger@reddit

The peril of having a really common name is there when I got an invite for Gmail (summer 2004) my name was already taken.

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Max_Power_332@reddit

Oh I’m a bit ahead of you then - I got my email address in IT class in 1999!

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infinitewowbagger@reddit

Probably about the same. I was in secondary school then. I was just saying that even on a completely new platform I still couldn't get first name.lastname

Makes me impossible to Google though so that's good!

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Aromatic-Club-3916@reddit

234446.865679@compuserve.com

That's how old I am

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Salt_Safety2234@reddit

A friend of mine still uses his talk21 account!

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Spiceymike0@reddit

I had a Freeserve address as it was my first ISP back on late 99'. They then introduced a webmail version which was fsmail.net I believe which then got bought by Orange.

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CapitalAd5339@reddit

I have my first name as my Twitter/X handle. It’s a very common first name…

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RhubarbImmediate7007@reddit

First name last name with no space at yahoo.com

My name is not common , but not unusual either.

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Bazzlekry@reddit

First one was @vossnet.co.uk - a local ISP where I used to live.

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tola9922@reddit

AOL

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Artistic-Cream6921@reddit

ntlworld.com, although I think I had an email address with my Sega Dreamcast but never used it.

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SixFiveOhTwo@reddit

@innotts.co.uk, around 1996 or 1997

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sausagemouse@reddit

Old and @freeserve.co.uk

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noAnimalsWereHarmed@reddit

USA.net. It would have started around the time Hotmail did. Only used it to chat to my brother in uni as no one else had an email address

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PlatypusFragrant2692@reddit

Uboot.com

Early 2000’s

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Puzzled_Pig@reddit

AOL.com

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lamblegsteak@reddit

Thesicness2002@_.com

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FreddiesNightmare65@reddit

The first one I remember was crazyhouse@blueyonder.co.uk, at was around 30 years ago, but i also had another crazy house one before that, can't ferment who it was with though, think it was a BT one. I lost both, the blueyonder one when I left virgin and hubby put it in his name to get out cheaper, and the BT one just closed down. I just use a web based one now save having to change anything if I ditched virgin again, which I did some time ago.

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Pircster38@reddit

aol.com

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gowithflow192@reddit

spuddy.mew.co.uk

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Flabby-Nonsense@reddit

Tesco.net lmao

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Aggravating-Fun9361@reddit

Think you should clarify ‘personal’ email as I’m pretty sure I had email at Uni before I got a personal email account, yes I’m that old.

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Jinx-Put-6043@reddit

I have firstnamelastname@hotmail.com for all my junk stuff, companies etc and firstnamemiddleinitiallastname@gmail.com for other stuff

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Mysterious_County154@reddit

@ daum .net

Probably unknown to most brits, i had it before we moved here

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_TattieScone@reddit

Is that a Korean one?

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pasarocks@reddit

Freeserve.co.uk

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broken-neurons@reddit

Privately, a Demon Internet address with dial up account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Internet

user@{accountname}.demon.co.uk

But around the same time a Uni address:

username@{institution}.ac.uk

Early 90’s.

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Ugglug@reddit

Hotmail.com. I got on before Hotmail.co.uk existed

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GoldBear79@reddit

Anyone remember Liberty Net?

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Slight-Character5826@reddit

I had firstnamelastname@ntl.co.uk

But im really old.

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CraigL8@reddit

Blueyonder

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ZestyBeer@reddit

Tiscali

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iceman2g@reddit

I only signed up so I could make a Geocities site, and never used it for email, but technically it was @yahoo.com.

My first 'real' email was from a Russian server that let you pick your own domain name, so I picked @chronic.da.ru, because it was the late 90's, I loved hip hop, and I was (and still am) painfully white.

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BugAdministrative683@reddit

@.ac.uk

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Available-Nose-5666@reddit

Mine was hotmail and I don’t care what others say but those were the best days. Logging onto msn messenger back then.

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Diega78@reddit

Aol.com

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stitchard@reddit

@brunel.ac.uk in 1989. I didn't know what email was and never used it. After that it was a .demon.co.uk dial up account. Never had a "generic" email domain.

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ItsDominare@reddit

Email was CompuServe, instant messaging client was ICQ (for which I still remember my number)

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IsomerUK@reddit

Memory unlocked… 78529046 was my ICQ. Haven’t even thought about it in getting on for 20 years

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clrthrn@reddit

Hotmail. But my current GMail is so old that it started off as a google mail.com address, pre G mail.

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Brevard1986@reddit

AOL because you had to. Then the likes of NTL, Blueyonder and Yahoo.

Hotmail is my "kid" one that I still use today for "fun". Gmail my "official" one(s).

Will be teaching my kids not to put their birth year in their "official" email or anything that connects to them online.

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katie-kaboom@reddit

@[firstuniversity].edu. Commercial services were available at the time, but not to 16-year olds.

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mikpgod@reddit

CompuServe.com

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Polythene_pams_bag@reddit

Mines a hotmail.co.uk that’s how old I am and I still use it to this day

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iluvnips@reddit

We still have ntlworld.com email addresses

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elhazelenby@reddit

Mine was Hotmail.co.uk

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Lazy_Kangaroo703@reddit

compuserve

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anonoaw@reddit

yahoo, and then I got a Hotmail for MSN messenger later

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Consistent-Pirate-23@reddit

Hotmail which was ditched when I was able to pay for my own internet cafe sessions

Got an email through another.com. I had a bunch that went to the same mailbox including one with a chief Wiggum domain.

Had to have a serious one for uni so went with talk21

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iwantmorewhippets@reddit

I still have my talk21.com. it's the one I use for things that are most likely to give me lots of spam

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Necessary_Village878@reddit

Tiscali

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19Ben80@reddit

MSN.com and still use it

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BasicBanter@reddit

@ntlworld.com

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mbe220@reddit

7xxxx,xx@compuserve.com. Accessed via WinCim.

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Relevant_Natural3471@reddit

You're not that old if it was for a sky digital box.

I had an ic24 account, which was an ISP that was free (minus the 56k dialup call costs from the LL). First was probably AOL but on a technicality that it wasn't my own account.

I did have a yahoo account for yahoo messenger, mind.

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Anxious-Bid4874@reddit

Like many others Hotmail, I have initialssurname@hotmail.com. I have an older person who seems to think she's emailing her mate. It all went quiet for a couple of years and I thought she'd shuffled off but no, she reappeared a few weeks ago giving her mate an update.

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UndulatingUnderpants@reddit

@mailcity.com

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ArtichokeDesperate68@reddit

Compuserve.com

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CyndersParadigm@reddit

@aol.com in the first half of the 2000s

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Logical_Pineapple841@reddit

Firstinitialsurname@googlemail.com

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Otherwise-Plane8282@reddit

I’ve been using the same hotmail.com address for almost 30 years

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yoloswaggins92@reddit

My Dad worked in tech so bought a domain name in the 90s and was over the moon about it.

Email address was @(ourfamilysurname).org.uk

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MJ-Franklin@reddit

@ NTLWorld I can't even remember the year, but it was ancient.

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DutchOfBurdock@reddit

Demon.co.uk

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GooseyDuckDuck@reddit

@excite.com looking it up, it closed down 25 years ago 😀

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HarryBayles@reddit

Another.com - it had custom domains, mine was something like "[myname]@some-pub.co.uk. Had a t-shirt with it printed on and everything. Would love to get access to that.

My main personal email is still yahoo.co.uk

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craptainbland@reddit

Surprised I had to look so far for this. No doubt my parents would’ve gotten one with our ISP (Freeserve iirc) but we were all brand new to computing

I vaguely recall seeing an advert for another.com on tv and thinking it’d be useful to have an email address so signed up the next time the phone line was free. They offered a paid tier which I’m assuming gave you extra privileges as one day they informed me my address was losing a letter (still practically the same; think havelock to havlock although it did cause some confusion when I gave it out to people. Turns out most people expect full proper words)

After that had a couple of hotmail and yahoo mail addresses but then I got a gmail when it was invite only and haven’t looked back since

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cbawiththismalarky@reddit

@uk.ac.salford.eng

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Comprehensive_Cow_13@reddit

Same! I'd completely forgotten it ended in .eng back then 🤯

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Albert_Herring@reddit

Another JANET address, I'm not the only proper old bugger here.

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bakedNdelicious@reddit

Lineone.net

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Bonzos_Bowler_Hat@reddit

Had two, one junk, one live: @hotmail.com & @tiscali.co.uk respectively

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smileystarfish@reddit

@btinternet.com

I still have access to it, it's still full of junk haha.

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No_Pea-1@reddit

@pop.ntlworld.com i think?

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BeginningProgram6993@reddit

aol.com

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daxamiteuk@reddit

I think I had some sort of bt internet one but never used it , I didn’t see the point!

When I got to uni, my friends explained the point of it and so I signed up to Hotmail and got my name plus 3digits , I still use it now as my junk mail account for whenever a website demands an email address .

I eventually got another Hotmail with my name and surname but didn’t use it long. Finally got a gmail with name and surname and I’ve still got that today.

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pcgamez@reddit

ukonline anyone?

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gander8622@reddit

I was scrolling for ages looking for it.

Yup! ukonline here too.

I still remember the day we finally joined the internet. It was exciting!

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Poschi1@reddit

Hotmail but .co.uk rather than .com.

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Bringme2lyf@reddit

@handbag.com

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cloud__19@reddit

This whole thread has probably generated about a hundred automated modmail messages about doxxing.

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SketchbookProtest@reddit

Yahoo lol

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Dull_Vanilla_2395@reddit

@sky.com

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jmsld_@reddit

Anyone remember Vossnet broadband? I had that.

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Neat_Consequence4792@reddit

@hotmail.co.uk still have it to

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Adventurous-Fun8547@reddit

my-bulldog.com. A long gone ISP that didn't safeguard its domain name, because if you wanted information or support you'd find hardcore porn.

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yossanator@reddit

Compuserve email from the days of BBS and dial up.

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Luna259@reddit

fsnet said Freeseeve if I’m not mistaken

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Ambitious_Rent_3282@reddit

Aol.com. Still use it 'cause I'm vintage :)

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rondal99@reddit

@compuserve.com

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CaveJohnson82@reddit

Mine was something like myname@angelwings.com, presumably before they started charging for that sort of thing. It was very shortlived though, I think I only used it for a the Trouble chat board (where I pretended I was at least 16). Does anyone remember that?!

I had a Hotmail.com address too, pretty sure that was before they did .co.uk.

I also have a myname@googlemail.com address which also works as myname@gmail.com as it was the precursor to Gmail. I even got married and changed my name early enough that I managed to get a mymarriedname@gmail.com address.

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naughtymo83@reddit

@yahoo.co.uk

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do_you_realise@reddit

My first ever email address was via the Dreamcast, first time I went on the internet on my own. But I can't remember what the hostname was! @ whatever it was. Then I lost the password and had to sign up again and add 1 to the house number.

I think the first truly useful one was @btinternet.com

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Brilliant_Bullfrog84@reddit

@Ntlworld.com

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Live_Lifeguard1267@reddit

Demon.co.uk

Whatever happened to that?

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greedos_dead@reddit

Phs.wcape.school.za

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Rubberfootman@reddit

cc011rfm01@ntu.ac.uk 1993.

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Psychological_Sir780@reddit

Blueyonder has entered the chat

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ScaredCrowww@reddit

aol.com then hotmail.com then yahoo.co.uk which I still use but need to change because it’s awful. 🥲

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Spottyjamie@reddit

Compuserve

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adreddit298@reddit

Hotmail.com, in 1995. I still have the account.

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SlippyA@reddit

@Tinyonline.co.uk it came with a disk from curreys

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zonaa20991@reddit

@yahoo.com

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Previous-Bicycle9993@reddit

first last name @googlemail.com feeling really old

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invokes@reddit

@bbcnc.org.uk

The BBCs (Beebs) ISP for the public in the early 90s.

The BBC Networking Club.

However, I'm pretty sure we had another service from a local ISP first.

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Zero_Squared@reddit

@Libertysurf.co.uk then Orange-Freeserve-Wanadoo.

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britilix@reddit

A bunch of random characters @Blueyonder.com

🤣

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NoCoffee8231@reddit

@barrysworld.co.uk

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Boothros@reddit

Can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something@ntlworld

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carotimekiller@reddit

Still using AOL. You will prise that email address out of my cold dead hands

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PretendPop8930@reddit

Mine was also @talk21.com. I had to use the Sky remote control to type emails, which took ages!

My main email now is still @aol.com. I've had this for about 26 years...

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Emperors-Peace@reddit

@ask.com back when ask jeeves was the world's best search engine. (Or so I thought)

I eventually migrated to Hotmail and Gmail.

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OldDomG@reddit

First email I made myself was a hotmail.com, before that my dad made me an myname@lineone.net ready for when I left school because emails were going to be vital to adulthood down the line that I don't think I ever actually got to use 😅

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takeawaycheesypeas@reddit

Firstname@Iobox.com as the offered a free text message to mobile service back in 1999

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CEP64@reddit

Think mine was something@btcellnet.co.uk, later became 02.

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Worried-Penalty8744@reddit

Freeserve but I also had AOL and an ICQ ID at the same time.

My dad is still clinging on to his NTLWorld address

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betterland@reddit

@yahoo.co.uk

The first part of the email was name after my favourite stuffed animal at the time 😁

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underdog8912@reddit

@fsmail.net

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viva__hate@reddit

.freeserve.co.uk

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lessthandave89@reddit

Freeserve.net. Hotmail.com (.co.uk) wasn't an option. Unfortunately I forgot my ICQ number

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axomoxia@reddit

I had a demon account, named after the off the shelf limited company I bought when I went contracting in the late 90s....

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M1k3_esc@reddit

Mine was an ac.uk account when I worked at a university in the early 1990s. When Apple introduced their Mac.com domain in 2000 it was only available in the US so I had to fake a US address to get one.

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sbaldrick33@reddit

@ntlworld

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schmoovebaby@reddit

@yahoo.co.uk and I still use it 😂 Luckily at some point they offered a second email address going to the same mailbox (probably because everyone set up an embarrassing initial one) and mine is firstname_maidenname@yahoo.co.uk so that’s what I use these days.

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Familiar-Woodpecker5@reddit

I still have aol.com 🫣

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CharlesWafflesx@reddit

I still have it dude: @hotmail.co.uk

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Sprogletto@reddit

I’m young so was a gmail in 2011 by that time all the good names were taken. In 2016 just as I left high school I bought firstname+lastname.com so used that ever since, 10 years coming up mid May.

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Albert_Herring@reddit

uk.ac.umist.ccl

I think it was JANET (the Joint Academic Network) that put the elements in the reverse order from the one we're used to now. It worked the normal way round for external stuff and Usenet, anyway.

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Dranask@reddit

My first was Hotmail, others domains have followed including some unique to the company I worked for.

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davedoesntlikehats@reddit

Soton.ac.uk - my first time on the internet was in freshers week. Got a hotmail.com not long after and had gmail when it was on beta and invite only.

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death-in-tipton@reddit

Mine was @redhotant.com

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Wise_Advertising_888@reddit

@btinternet.com

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bobtheboffin@reddit

Was a Madasafish domain (which no one seems to remember)

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No_Topic5591@reddit

This should probably allow you guess my age to within a year or two, but: myname@natalieimbruglia.co.uk (I was very young, and a fan)

Not a great choice, as it turns out, because most people can't spell her name.

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Tru72@reddit

AOL, then BT Internet, before it became Blueyonder, then became virgin.

Hotmail and gmails as well, but those were my first

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RudeEntry8219@reddit

sta5cw@leeds.ac.uk, 1988.

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Akkuze@reddit

globalnet.co.uk think it originally came free on a cd and i just went with it (paying for a second phone line to be installed as my parents weren’t happy they could never use the phone…)

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kimbosaurus@reddit

@msn.com

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Everything-is-normal@reddit

Postmaster

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drs_12345@reddit

Mine was Yahoo, and I vividly remember using Yahoo Messanger

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Physical-Industry-21@reddit

AOL or Hotmail, I can't remember it's that long ago.

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Educational-Fish4266@reddit

firstname.secondname@ntlworld.com

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Sacu-Shi@reddit

I think having an email with no numbers in it is a good way of determining someone's 'Internet age'.

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titlrequired@reddit

I think mine was also talk21.com, but I remember I had a bbc.co.uk, all sorts when they all offered dialup services.

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OG-87@reddit

Hotmail but was Devilboy666 I was a cool 11 year old

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ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit

Dead heat between a dial.pipex.com and Hotmail.

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Fit_Swordfish5248@reddit

I had an @blueyonder.co.uk. they was one of the first to offer full 'broadband' but my first was hotmail I think in around 2000 when we first got AOL.

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funkyjoehovis@reddit

Tiscali - old school royalty !!!

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SexySpringRoll@reddit

I’ve got an email and with my first name only

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jamesmb@reddit

@ed.ac.uk and a had to fill in a multi-page form to justify why I would ever need an email account! 1992. Happy days. They should reintroduce a justification hurdle to get access to the internet. It'd solve a lot of issues!

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FSF87@reddit

Lycos.co.uk

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AdmirableAthlete8823@reddit

Mine is InitialsSurname@Hotmail.com and I created FirstNameLastName.gmail.com for my children as soon as it became fashionable. Genuine question: what do people use now, if not Gmail?

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Belle_TainSummer@reddit

Just a string of numbers from compuserve.

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tommy-turtle@reddit

My first ISP, GlobalNet - FSurname@globalnet.co.uk

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AmethystOuidWolf@reddit

Original email was a Hotmail, then an ntlworld, then a Gmail, then an Outlook. Now a Gmail and an Outlook.

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j389191m@reddit

nildram an old internet isp

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OwnedByGreyhounds@reddit

Yahoo.com probably. I got my Gmail account a bit later when it was still invite only.

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WorcsBloke@reddit

Yahoo, because at the time in the UK it offered 6MB of space while whatever its main competitor was (Hotmail?) only offered 4MB. Back then those were reasonable figures!

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need_a_poopoo@reddit

Mine was leeds ac.uk, which doesn't really help with my age, but it does show that we didn't have internet at home until after I was old enough to go to uni.

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jiggymiggy@reddit

Hotmail and aol, though I can’t remember the actual emails at all!

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14JRJ@reddit

Hotmail.com. Then I got a Googlemail account in 2007 when you still needed an invite

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New_Elderberry5181@reddit

I've got a firstnamelastname hotmail.com and yahoo.com email addresses. I think the yahoo one was my first.

When I had to give my email address to a salesperson recently, they stopped and said "that's old".

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sconebore@reddit

I still have a talk21 address that I use for all my spammy newsletter signups. I had a Hotmail address first though.

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PingouinFluffy@reddit

AOL- America online and I still have it. I am in the UK too.

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Strange-Regret2524@reddit

Technically i got hotmail after freeserve my isp. Still got my hotmail.com account.

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monkeyshoulder22@reddit

My 1st one was via my dial up isp. Global internet I think they were called. Have had my Hotmail since before Microsoft took them over.

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rogfrich@reddit

It might be my university one - I can’t remember if I had a personal one before I went to Uni in 1995.

My first personal email address was one provided by my ISP. After that, I had a Hotmail one.

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jmcrk@reddit

netscape.net, then freeserve, then hotmail, then googlemail.

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maybedont18@reddit

Mine is somehow still @hotmail.co.uk. My parents email got hacked and they had to use @hotmail.com after that.

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Tuesdaynext14@reddit

Bit of planning ahead meant both my daughters have firstnamelastname@gmail.com. All their friends at school had to grab what they could at the time many year later. Winning at parenting.

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Any_Willingness_9085@reddit

I cant remember if it was @ntlworld or @aol. My AOL is still active 😄

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buginarugsnug@reddit

@aol.com

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Undefined92@reddit

btinternet.co.uk or might've been .com.

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inthepipe_fivebyfive@reddit

....@euronet.com before I switched to @hotmail.com

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DavidBovvinge@reddit

nene.ac.uk - showing my age because it changed its name to something else in 1999.

My first home one was demon.co.uk, later replaced with ntlworld.com - which still works!

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Tiny-Wrap7332@reddit

Clara.net - I was surprised to find that they still exist;

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Eddles999@reddit

@nildram.co.uk

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a-punk-is-for-life@reddit

Mine was talk21 too

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MCL-Jonathan@reddit

Hotmail, Rocketmail

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DiligentCockroach700@reddit

Mine was cix.com ( was anyone here on CIX?)

Anybody remember CompuServe? They had those email addresses that were just numbers

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notoriousgtt@reddit

msn.com

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SupernaturalPlonk@reddit

I have firstnamelastname@gmail.com from back when gmail was invite only.

I do wonder about the poor sod that actually has firstnamelastname @whatever as their email 😂

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dcsearle@reddit

I had an OG aol.com and a freeserve email… buy my talk21.co.uk stood the test of time… until i forgot my password and had no way to reset it 😂

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Weewoes@reddit

aol.com

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-Rhymenocerous-@reddit

Blueyonder.co.uk

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Not-a-Cranky-Panda@reddit

Yahoo and I still have it.

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MrPatch@reddit

Umm I'm pretty sure I owned madweed.co.uk before I had any email address. Back then there weren't free email providers so you had to do your own thing.

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johnnyjonnyjonjon@reddit

I also had a talk21 email and it must've been quite early on because it was just my first name... No random letters or numbers... Just myname@talk21.com.

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TheRealTRexUK@reddit

@workbebch.freeserve.net

previously was a bbs email Id

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Repulsive-Bridge111@reddit

I still have and use a lineone.net . however it is on the verge of dying as they want me to pay for it to keep it. For years it's been great to send junk mail to when you need to put your e-mail but dont want to give them your real one.

I also have an OG hotmail one with my name only (no numbers)

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Severus_1987@reddit

@ntlworld I think and then msn, before eventually getting to Hotmail!

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Aggravating_Cloud657@reddit

Aol

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Bumpyslide@reddit

I worked at Sun Microsystems so had one of those from ‘92 but home would have been @zoom.co.uk

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IkeTurn@reddit

compuserve.com

:-)

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PetetheMann@reddit

Hotmale@hotmail.com

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soopercerial@reddit

@Merseymail.com 😬

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rigxla@reddit

@blueyonder think the got bought by virgin

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Bob_Leves@reddit

My university one in 1993

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Key_Tour_9365@reddit

aol.com! I still remember the free disks that they gave away everywhere! We used them as coasters. Also how I met my ex husband on an AOL message board!

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mmetalgaz@reddit

Hotmail.co.uk...

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Fun_Stock7078@reddit

Hotmail, still have it. It’s my name, no numbers,symbols etc, just my name @hotmail.co.uk.

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techbear72@reddit

Mine was the university I went to (.ac.uk) back before NCSA Mosaic was released and we didn’t even have web browsers that showed images inline with the text on the www..

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ocdfi@reddit

My first was @peopleweb.com - what happened to them? I then got a googlemail.com - someone told me it wasn’t very cool and you needed gmail because only special people got invited to that so I started using the same NAME@googlemail.com but NAME@gmail.com without creating a separate account and it worked. So even today if you email me at either I still get them in my uncool googlemail account.

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moonsorrow9@reddit

firstname@surname2110@freeserve co.uk.

Used to check my email at every opportunity, even though I was about 9 and no one was sending me any emails.

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NortonBurns@reddit

Compuserve, 1992, then a private company domain for the rest of the decade.
I bought my own domain in 2001 & that's been my email ever since.

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GabberZZ@reddit

CompuServe.com

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Sure-Junket-6110@reddit

Some of us are keeping Rocketmail alive

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fussyfella@reddit

My first email address was with my company and it was all I used for years (before most people even knew what an email address was). The first personal one I set up was @rocketmail.com an early email provider that was purchased by hotmail, which as most people know was eventually purchased by Microsoft.

I actually set up my own domain in 1998 and have used that ever since although how and who hosts the mail has changed many times.

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PolyFun-UK@reddit

Personal domain bought back at the start of the internet. I actually bought 10 or 12 domains as I started an internet business.

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Limit_Ok@reddit

aol.com ..

I used my dad's email at first as it wasnt really a thought that we would all have one individually.

I may have also got my dad kicked out of a few chat rooms.

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hhfugrr3@reddit

Probably freeserve.co.uk

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NoMortgage3467@reddit

Freeserve

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jhughes1986@reddit

Aol.com

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rustytoe178@reddit

hotmail and then talktalk

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Low-Praline-7521@reddit

Had a yahoo.com but ultimately kept my live.co.uk which I think from was msn. Sometimes I wonder if people think I’m a cam girl or something

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4x6x8@reddit

Hotmail

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Physical_Boss7224@reddit

AOL then madasafish.com

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CptBananaPants@reddit

Firstname.Surname2164@freeserve.co.uk

Later acquired by Orange (RIP)

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AvitarPhil@reddit

Hotmail and ntlworld

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Opteron-X@reddit

First_last@hotmail.com I guess Hotmail was in 1996 perhaps 1997 as I had started work and I remember internally we ran a mail server too but hardly any external messages were sent. Fax, Phone even the odd Telex from more remote countries. At uni the year before nobody had email addresses.

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Opteron-X@reddit

I should add - the HR Manager asked me about email around that time and I'll never forget that when I gave him my email he spelled it back to me as @hotmale - wonder if he thought it was a dating tool

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TheShakyHandsMan@reddit

Mine was (name)2002@yahoo.co.uk

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welshlondoner@reddit

Hotmail and I still use it. My address is firstnamelastname@hotmail.com I don't have a particularly unusual name.

When I give my address to people I generally get asked to repeat as they missed the numbers and are surprised there are no numbers.

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Emilyx33x@reddit

@aol.com born 2001

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pattybutty@reddit

My university one, then @yahoo.co.uk once I graduated. Still got that account, too

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SDHester1971@reddit

@dial.pipex.com in late 1996

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cwatt69@reddit

Freeserve

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haltonsnumberone@reddit

Madasafish.com

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Poppy9872@reddit

First name.lastname@uk.gateway.com - who remembers the joy of the black & white boxes arriving with your new PC 🐄

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Psychological-Sea785@reddit

Probably mail.com or googlemail

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Leading_Nectarine776@reddit

@btopenworld.com

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DevilMonkeyJon@reddit

Ooh no results for 'supanet'! (90% sure that's how it was spelt). First family PC was set up on it. A 'Time' branded beige box. Then btinternet a bit later. I still remember the dial up sounds so clearly.

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No-Calligrapher-7415@reddit

Yahoo had it since 2001 :)

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Material-Bee-907@reddit

I have a feeling my @onetel.net.uk address just pre-dated my hotmail account by a smidge

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andrewshort71@reddit

@demon.co.uk

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CrossCityLine@reddit

@rocketmail

Yahoo bought them out about 15 years ago but the domain still works and it’s still my main email address.

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Mariashax@reddit

Telewest I think!

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Awhyte1983@reddit

@blueyonder.co.uk

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martyrees76@reddit

Mine was talk21!! (Still is)

It was from when you could send and receive emails through your sky digibox. Think it got changed to something else but it still works as well, so I still give it.

My email address is an antique

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bopeepsheep@reddit

The company I worked for in 1993. Not naming because it was very small. We were pretty much all firstname@ apart from two lads with the same name, who had to be firstnameE and firstnameJ.

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bopeepsheep@reddit

Then it was .ac.uk, and Freeserve at home.

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theworldsaplayground@reddit

AOL and, unbelievably it still works even though I haven't used it in like 20 years. The one after that was virgin.net until the buggers shut down the servers.

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blinkinthedark@reddit

@msn.com

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whatformdidittake@reddit

Blueyonder

I still use my Hotmail one, which being so old is just my name, no numbers or variation! Unlike my Gmail where I had to change l to 1 and e to 3 to spell it!

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dukeofplazatoro@reddit

Either Hotmail.com or excite. The family had an ntlworld one for connecting to the dial up lol

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AyPeeBee@reddit

punkindrublic2k2@aol.com 😎

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shell-x@reddit

Yahoo.co.uk

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IamImpostersyndrome@reddit

Mine had 2k2 in it…. And of course - hotmail

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AirconGuyUK@reddit

msn.com

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russ_knightlife@reddit

Hotmail.com from 2001, still use it.

Probably a huge data security risk as deffo been compromised before but I’ll never retire it.

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TorstedTheUnobliged@reddit

Compuserve I think or AOL, then a few years later Excite and by 1999 Hotmail.

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danjimian@reddit

Work (1992) - @nynexuk.mhs.compuserve.com

Home (1998) - @freeserve.com

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herebymistake2@reddit

I had a domain on demon.co.uk back in 1994.

Huge fun back then running your own sendmail server and nntp server on Slackware with a Linux 1.0 kernel. It’s almost like you had to read stuff to make things work properly. Made some good virtual friends back then.

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George_Salt@reddit

My first ever email address was a Denver Freenet address around about 1993, because uni gave us a login for internet access but not an email address and there were very limited providers of free email addresses. A few months later I had my first proper .ac.uk email address.

My current personal email address is still googlemail.com, from before the contraction to gmail. Prior to that it was a Tinyworld/Tiscali address.

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the-holy-one23@reddit

I saw an AOL.com email in the wild this week, on a scaffolding company sheet thingy

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Visual-Tap-6105@reddit

Lineone.net

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snakeoildriller@reddit

Demon.co.uk 👨‍🦳😁

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Glittering-Round7082@reddit

Me.

I have firstnamelastname@me.com

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SWTransGirl@reddit

I had talk21, then my own domain for work and hotmail for personal.

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Jassida@reddit

I once had an email from someone around 2001 from @hotmale.con

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Dodo_Repellent@reddit

My first email was with rocketmail.com in 1996, which was later bought out by Yahoo. That was when I opened my Hotmail account, which I still use today firstname.lastname@hotmail.co.uk

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Specific_Pomelo_8281@reddit

Crazymusiclover@hotmail or something like that. God a new one when I started using it for CV’s and I got a reply telling me I won’t get a job with that email.

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Joober81@reddit

I was on Force9! That was 1997.

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banana_assassin@reddit

Blueyonder.co.uk and then hotmail.co.uk

Both defunct now, but I haven't heard of Blueyonder as an ISP for a very long time.

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Frustib@reddit

It was telewest before being bought by virgin media

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Therealladyboneyard@reddit

AOL

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BitcoinThrowaway202@reddit

amserve.co.uk courtesy of Alan Sugar’s Amstrad - my granny’s not mine. She had one of those Amstrad internet-connected landlines with a mini keyboard and a terrible screen interface. I guess it made Alan Sugar rich tho

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barriedalenick@reddit

Demon internet. I was pig@demon.co.uk for a while before I got a hotmail account

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Jassida@reddit

Hotmail.com First name_last name

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aNDY-aND@reddit

Fidonet.org

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SpaceJkr@reddit

excite.com, or was it .co.uk?

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bopitbeatz@reddit

i loved my aol!!!!

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miked999b@reddit

My first was freeserve@brazilia.com or something like that. But then I got Hotmail and I've had that since 2002

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adamh02@reddit

@googlemail.com

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BanginDrumsNMums@reddit

@dial.pipex

and

@compuserve

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Asuperniceguy2@reddit

Hotmail.co.uk. Had it for a very long time!

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Swimming_Photo9295@reddit

Hotmail

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Last_Imagination8597@reddit

Freeserve.co.uk

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Wibblejellytime@reddit

It was @(place).ac.uk and it was pine based so the letters were green and it was a black background!

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OldBorktonian@reddit

AOL or Compuserve late 80s. Didn't have much use for email, more sharing messages BBS style. Was a beta tester (gamma in fact) for Forte Agent for using Usenet and that prog was my first standalone for emails.

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Remarkable_Movie_800@reddit

Firstnamemiddlename@hotmail

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Youtalkingtomyboobs@reddit

Very first was @tinyworld.co.uk, but that was on the family outlook, so soon after got a hotmail.com. I still have it, but it gets so much spam, I can’t use it.

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MealComplex8672@reddit

fsmail.net thanks for making me feel my age this wonderful morning

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budgiebirdman@reddit

I have a friend whose is his.name@hotmail.com.

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MuddyBoots472@reddit

My ntlworld address had a meltdown last weekend and I was shook - it’s older than my kids. I’ve started transferring everything to a newer domain just in case it dies permanently. My first ever email address was at Uni in 1993/4. I had end008 as the 8th user in the English dept 🤣

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Greavsie2001@reddit

Compuserve - when your username was a string of numbers in octal like 76743,635 and your email address was that with @compuserve.com added.

Yes I am old.

Then Demon.

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lardarz@reddit

I had a aol one then a gotadsl one

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Naive_Product_5916@reddit

Through my university. Then Hotmail.

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mbridge2610@reddit

Still have it now; @hotmail.co.uk

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A_track89@reddit

@ntlworld.com

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itsableeder@reddit

Blueyonder, I think? I genuinely can't remember though.

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speak-for-the-dead@reddit

AOL - set it up at an internet cafe (remember those?) back in 96 or 97.
Still using it now almost 30 years later.

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YourLocalMosquito@reddit

btinternet

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HamsterEagle@reddit

My first was @.ac.uk it was in a command line interface no clicky clicky for me.

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GlynHugh@reddit

Mine was @demon.co.uk which may have been the first £10 per month Internet I think?

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koyliMeld9003@reddit

Mine was name@fsnet.co.uk.

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ASY_Freddy@reddit

@btinternet

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hiddenkinkz@reddit

I briefly had my very common last name lastname@gov.uk - when I was a military scientist. This was right at the very start of email when we were experimenting.

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floralflourish@reddit

Hotmail.com and before that msn.com

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omg_daisy@reddit

Mine was boo_madgirl 😂😂 I only retired it a few years ago

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RedSunWuKong@reddit

I still use me talk21 account

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mydog8it@reddit

Compuserve

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jonnoscouser@reddit

God. Lineone.net

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YOF626@reddit

Hotmail.com

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TedWasler@reddit

AOL, I think, than Demon.co.uk

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foxglow210@reddit

Lycos

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Suspicious_Hotel_908@reddit

Blueyonder.com

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No_Direction_4566@reddit

Fairly sure it was Lycos.com

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Damage2Damage@reddit

My first email was my first name dot last name @lycos.com

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No_Direction_4566@reddit

Mine too - except I was told the internet was full of paedos so it was a fake last name!

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choc_L8@reddit

Mine was @freeuk. Got it in late 98 when I got my Bondi Blue iMac. I think they got bought out by Claranet

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PhillyDeeez@reddit

Mailcity.com was mine iirc. Also Blueyonder!

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gunbo3000@reddit

I was an aol.com kinda guy. My wife still uses her Hotmail address

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tall_dom@reddit

Got given @physics.ox.ac.uk at uni before I even had a personal. Had to use Pine on UNIX to check it though

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ricky251294@reddit

Hotmail and yahoo

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koombot@reddit

I will never tell another soul my first email because the only link it will bring up on Google is the terrible Tenchi Muyo / MacBeth crossover fanfiction I wrote

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christop42@reddit

Hotmail

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theguy_dan@reddit

My sister still uses her talk21 account. I think it's through MS these days. I remember us using the special sky keyboard to sign up...! I used to have a virgin.net email - this was pre virgin media / ntl...

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KPV_UK@reddit

___@mad.scientist.com

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Tweddhead@reddit

AOL.com

(Always OffLine!)

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barbz1190@reddit

Virgin.net

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Woodsthedog@reddit

I had firstname@lastname.co.uk because my dad bought the domain name. My second was firstnamelastname@gmail.com

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Bastrato@reddit

1st email address was smoke_sum@ganja.com. yeah I know it's lame.

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tom__stockton@reddit

fsmail.net 😂

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PengyLi@reddit

Yes! The joys of being old. I have both my maiden name and my married name as firstame.lastname@gmail.com and I was quite late to the party with Gmail I felt! Before that, I didn't need a free email address because my company email address was internet enabled so it was firstname_lastname@uk.companyname.com which got me connected to the outside world as well as internally. And before THAT, because I worked for a big international tech company, we had internal email addresses which looked like LASTNAME+initials@DOMAIN which, for me, was from the late 1980s.

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Mrs_Monopoly@reddit

@aol.com

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ZandalariTrollDK@reddit

It would have been an aol.com email address as in the UK AOL had an unlimited service for a reasonable fee whereas with BT I believe you were paying by the minute which my parents were very unhappy about. The first time I ever used the internet in my life was through a Sega Dreamcast

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ubiquitousuk@reddit

Yeah, that pay by the minute thing was gash. Especially because you had to pay both your ISP's per-minute charge and the per-minute phone call cost. I remember once I couldn't connect to Compuserve's local server so I dialed into the one in Birmingham instead, which BT charged as a long-distance call at 50p/minute. Parents also not happy.

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marc512@reddit

Yahoo

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JanuaryGrace@reddit

Hotmail! Firstnamelastname@hotmail.com

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AffectionateHat561@reddit

First one woukd have been some AOL address related with all those one month free trials. After that freeserve before having a Hotmail one and then eventually a mix of gmail and personal domain

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JobAnxious2005@reddit

@microsoft.com

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hartlepaul@reddit

It has to be @aol.com . That was the free months dial up access from the cd on the front of every pc magazine back in the day

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Realistic-Muffin-165@reddit

Cix.compulink.co.uk

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justhereforthecrac@reddit

Blueyonder

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Status2020@reddit

Lineone.net

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GoneAway404@reddit

Anyone remember before alphabetic addresses? My first ever email address was 10.16.10.357@compuserve.com.

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WorthWarning4351@reddit

107342.1163@compuserve.com

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TraditionalScheme337@reddit

Hotmail for me but my wife still uses her old ymail. A lot of younger people don't know what it is.

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Otherwise-Eye-490@reddit

Hotmail and I still use it.

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northerncodemky@reddit

Compuserve. It was a number, and their proprietary protocol. My first really personal one was junglenet, then yahoo and finally Hotmail (in prep for UCAS applications) which I have and use as my primary email to this day.

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TheBristolBulk@reddit

Telewest, then it became Blueyonder after a buy out I think!

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Donnermeat----@reddit

AOL . Com 🕺🏼

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fjtuk@reddit

dsl.pipex.com

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gggggenegenie@reddit

Freeseeve.co.uk

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TepidHalibut@reddit

Either Compuserve or AOL, back in early 1994

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misterygus@reddit

I had a .ac.uk address in 1989, then got a demon.co.uk address in 1993 or 94 on their ‘tenner a month’ service.

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DangerousDisplay7664@reddit

@aol.com

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NotMyRealMoniker@reddit

@postmaster.co.uk

Back when one would Ask Jeeves.

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Zubi_Q@reddit

Hotmail and still the one I use to this day

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Inside-Judgment6233@reddit

Yahoo!

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loveyouronions@reddit

Yahoo.co.uk

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lookhereisay@reddit

@hotmail.co.uk and still using it! My parents still use their aol.com one too.

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AlexF2810@reddit

@aol.com

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Same_Difference_3361@reddit

msmail and compuserve at work.

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ObiSvenKenobi@reddit

aol.com

freeserve.co.uk

Yes, I was there when it all began.

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Tall-Paul-UK@reddit

breathe.com

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Leicsbob@reddit

Aol.com. I still use it as my main email address. It must be 30 years old now. God I feel old.

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legalfoxx@reddit

@nbc.xoom.com

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Foxtrot7888@reddit

Pemail.com

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nibor@reddit

I got online in 1993.

Possibly my college as I was doing a computer level but u’m not sure if they gave out email at the time. .

I did have Hotmail before I resort bought them and it is still working.

I might have had an email with my first ISP demon but i never committed to using it as I did not want provider lockin.

I got my own domain in the late 90s and have used that ever since.

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Mundo7@reddit

No one have a cwcom.net address? cable and wireless

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fucksinshortsupply@reddit

@googlemail.com

Before they shortened it to gmail.com

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strobe_jams@reddit

Mine was a college email domain - ac.uk from 94 using the Eudora email client.

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Plus_Pangolin_8924@reddit

Freeserve.co.uk those were the days!

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hippyjon@reddit

Madasafish.com I think.

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kapowey@reddit

@btconnect.com

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cowbutt6@reddit

My university's ac.uk from the early 90s.

The first email domain that was solely mine was my demon.co.uk account in the mid-90s.

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Grotzilla1@reddit

@ntlinternet.com or something about NTL

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AgentPegging@reddit

Screaming.net the first ISP to offer free internet phone calls, required moving to a different telecoms provider and was beset with teething problems

There was a forum for customers called thescream.net iirc

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stevielfc76@reddit

Tiscali for me, I’m proper old

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Revilo1st@reddit

Yahoo, moved onto Hotmail and got googlemail before the Gmail change over.

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Extreme-Kangaroo-842@reddit

Think it was an AOLUK address in 1997. But I'm a bit hazy on that. If not, it was for definite a Freeserve address in 1998.

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Rich-Cake6306@reddit

Compuserve, which was a or should I say, the rival to AOL, before the great www/http and hypertext was invented. I really am old lol

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bickles_cab@reddit

Hotmail.co.uk back in 2004, still using the same email address to this day

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Hair_of_the_cat_@reddit

Yahoo for me!

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Haresmoors@reddit

my first email was Maggie after the Simpsons with a bunch of numbers after. we were all named after the Simpsons besides my dad who kept his name and Lisa was left out 🤣

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Claire4Win@reddit

Aol

I technically have an AOL account but it is full of spam

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Abobs@reddit

AOL

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RaisinZealousideal39@reddit

Hotmail

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chris5689965467@reddit

York.ac.uk the university of York seemed very early out of the box. This was 1992.

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TommyAtoms@reddit

Hotmail was my first.

I also signed up for talk21 with my Sky digital thing, and still use it! I think BT took it over.

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Norfuckingood@reddit

Mine is ymail. It was my first and still my main mail account…

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Surreywinter@reddit

@easynet

Signed up in Cyberia - which I didn’t realise at the time was the UK’s first cyber cafe

Would have been around 94 or 95

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EugeneHartke@reddit

My first email was.

[My first name]@ed

I was a bit gutted when I had to give it up.

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Greatgrowler@reddit

AOL.com back in the days when you got an AOL cd in any magazine or newspaper you bought.

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Joyanonymous@reddit

Yahoo.com!!! In the 90s - I still use that same email as my primary email! 😆

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browneyone@reddit

Freeserve I believe

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kirwanm86@reddit

Characters@hotmail.com

It has carried across to adult life quite nicely.

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thatguyjames_uk@reddit

aol

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Quality_Controller@reddit

Orange.net

Got it with my Nokia 3210.

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Fancy_a_cuppa13@reddit

msn account, it's still going strong

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NoPalpitation9639@reddit

Mine was USA.net. I'm not from the USA, but there were limited free email providers. I then moved to Hotmail (first name last name @Hotmail.com) but abandoned it because their spam control really annoyed me (even when I restricted nails to addressbook only, spam got through). Had ntlworld.com and btinternet.com for a while. Moved to Gmail as soon as it became available and used it ever since

Bizarrely a forwarder I set up from my ntlworld.com address still works despite not paying NTL for two decades and them no longer existing

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Alarming_Oil5419@reddit

My first personal one was .uklinux.net, around '00, before then I just relied on my .ac.uk accounts.

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D0wnb0at@reddit

Cant remember if it was AOL or Hotmail. My first dial up internet provider was AOL, but I only remember my Hotmail email address.

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SparkyMarchi@reddit

My first email was “sorry_for_the_extremely_long_email@hotmail.co.uk”

I used it for a good 5 years and it always got a laugh in gaming lobbies. I luckily also signed up with “firstnamelastname@hotmail” too and I still use that today.

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smackshaw@reddit

I can't remember which came first demon or pipex. I did snap up an early hotmail.com address which I still use to this day.

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I_am_Reddit_Tom@reddit

Demon internet

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DXS110@reddit

My dogs name @ live.com

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Dazpiece@reddit

Mine was @homeserve.co.uk with our family's first ever dish-up internet provider 😅

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crumblingruin@reddit

It was an American .edu domain in summer of 1993. My first commercial one was Yahoo! and I still use it (among others).

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jesussays51@reddit

Hotmail.com but to show my age I also had Ekno.com. This was a lonely planet email service that allowed me to store scans of my passport and travel insurance as hotmail did not have the storage capacity for that

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FingersMartinez@reddit

@orange.net - old as fuck.

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Historical_Nail7271@reddit

yeesh. that was a million years ago: at LiquidSky.com

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CraftyCatMum@reddit

@tesco.net here, closed many years ago and took a lot of nostalgic emails with it

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

uea.ac.uk

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gimbha@reddit

myname@juno.com

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OkPhilosopher5308@reddit

Hotmail.com, still have it and still use it. Various others have come and gone over the years.

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mynameismarty007@reddit

Man Utd! Got a disc on the magazine I think

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Advanced-Fig6699@reddit

@fsmsil.net!!

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Gwenfrewy@reddit

excite

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properchels57@reddit

Around 1996/7 @england.com

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GrandDuty3792@reddit

@ntlworld.com

It was a family email address we all accessed

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Prestigious_Spot9635@reddit

Hotmail

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bloxie@reddit

talk21.com

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MacabreMagpie@reddit

@btopenworld.com - still have access to that!

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Victorius_Meldrus@reddit

DJ_Asspiece@hotmail.com

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SnooHamsters5480@reddit

I had an ntlword.com when I was a kid (early 2000s?), never actually used it, the first one I remember using was a hotmail.com.

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ZookeepergameNo7151@reddit

Talk21

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Kapika96@reddit

@aol.com or maybe .co.uk

Was definitely AOL first though. Then hotmail later.

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MissKLO@reddit

aol

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ahoneybadger3@reddit

Blueyonder.

Still use it.

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noxwiitch@reddit

Hotmail

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New-Evidence350@reddit

hotmail.com

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NewtSoupsReddit@reddit

I think it was a compulink address, at the time there were only about three ISPs in the UK.

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Adventurous-Shake-92@reddit

@aol.com

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Middle-agedCynic@reddit

Yahoo

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carnage2006@reddit

@aol.com you've got mail!

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PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit

I think it was freeserve.net.

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PassiveTheme@reddit

Ntlworld.

Although I never really used that one. My dad made it for me when I was young, and by the time I needed an email address, all my friends had Hotmail accounts and I didn't want to be the odd one out.

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Practical_Net_8944@reddit

Something AOL based can’t remember. But I got a free internet trial cd with a magazine. I remember those cds were everywhere.

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terahurts@reddit

cix.co.uk sometime around 1990ish, before the web was a big deal.

CIX was/is a dial-up BBS platform a bit like a cross between USENET, Reddit and a forum. It also had a email and Gopher access to the internet.

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mikec62x@reddit

My first email was @compuserve.com in 1995.

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Brilliant-Shirt-6376@reddit

Not the first by any means but I certainly recall Blueyonder !!

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Veeb@reddit

Still got my talk21 address via Gmail. Was just thinking the other day, I doubt anyone would even know what that was. Thanks for proving me wrong! I am also old.

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llynglas@reddit

att.com

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Captain_Stable@reddit

@freeserve.co.uk

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auntie_climax@reddit

Freeserve was my first

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scottyman2k@reddit

It was a compuserve address! So old that Apple thinks it’s a spelling error!

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Remote_Development13@reddit

yahoo co uk

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TW1103@reddit

Tiscali

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gtr455677ujbvxz4@reddit

Yahoo.co.uk

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Intrepid_Bearz@reddit

AOL.com 😅

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fairkatrina@reddit

Some random isp server called fastpo.st. Graduated to Hotmail, which I had to convince my nan wasn’t something porn-related.

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fouhay@reddit

I went to uni in 1994 and they gave us email addresses at the start of the year. It would have been an edu.au address; first commercial one would have been hotmail.com or Bigpond.com (Australian ISP)

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BromsgroveandReddit@reddit

Netscape.net. Still use that domain even though aol or aim.com work with it too.

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YoNoHuckleberryDude@reddit

@eircom.net it was a sad day when they discontinued that service.

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negras@reddit

Hotmail

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phil8715@reddit

My first email address was: @aol.com

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Various_Extreme_8773@reddit

@wanadoo.com

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Els236@reddit

I did have an MSN one at one point because of Messenger, but the big one I remember was a very stupidly-named Yahoo mail address, that I found super funny because I was like... idk 7 or 8 at the time.

I used that for quite a while honestly, until I grew up a little bit, closed it down, and got myself a rocketmail address, which I've used since as my main inbox.

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ActionBirbie@reddit

@compuserve.com.

You didn’t get to choose your address back with them!

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lacbeetle@reddit

thexyz.com

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OfflersSausages@reddit

Talk21.com

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likelivewirevoodoo@reddit

@demon.co.uk

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geekypenguin91@reddit

Can't remember if we had freeserve (fsnet) or ntlworld first

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Grand_Reputation_609@reddit

fsmail.net

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FireAntV1@reddit

Btinternet.com and fsmail.net

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winner_luzon@reddit

@Googlemail.co.uk

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G0reCatz@reddit

I got a private family name one. Idk what age that makes me 😅

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spinners_888@reddit

I had talk21.com based on my brother's recommendation because you could send free SMS but they stopped it after a while.

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wakou2@reddit

@demon.com

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gooner_ped@reddit

Pretty sure it was Demon.co.uk

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sqwz@reddit

It was.

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obsidianstrobe@reddit (OP)

As in the ISP? Wasn’t that like, 1992?..

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AllYouNeedIsRawk@reddit

Yahoo.com. yes, PRE-.co.uk. With an initial 60mb limit for capacity. Gutted that I couldn't use it for storage of my university-era emails when the internet came in, as it would have been great to cc my original uni email address mails for posterity. My school friends used to write long (text-only, no images!) emails to each other keeping in touch, after we split and went around the UK to our respective unis.

Still have it to this day, though don't use it as often, having different emails for historical, business, subscriptions, personal etc (mostly gmail). I do also have a blueyonder.co.uk in there as well from my first broadband package.

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obsidianstrobe@reddit (OP)

That was like a forwarding service, right?

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Financial-Ad6475@reddit

Yeah it was a forwarding service, you could have a couple of standard email addresses behind it.

Seemed a good idea at the time, used it for years. Till they pulled the plug on it.

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obsidianstrobe@reddit (OP)

“YahhhooooOoooOoo..” I can still hear the jingle

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