A friendly Challenge - SD's oldest Hotmail account

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was changing my Hotmail password(s) and noticed the account info showed my account creation date.

The account in my personal name was created November 02, 1998. I have two other hotmail accounts that were created in Feb and April 2000. I did have another hotmail account back around 1998 that expired from inactivity. I never bothered with it again because it was heavily spammed. I use my personal hotmail for friends and family. The two created in 2000 are for web site registrations.

A friendly Challenge :stuck_out_tongue: upper right corner of hotmail screen, click your name, and select account. When was yours created?

Oldest account gets SD bragging rights. :smiley:

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Hotmail used to have a different name before Microsoft bought it. Anyone recall what it was?

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According to Wikipedia, it was “HoTMaiL”.

My current account was created December 20, 2000, but I had one from at least 1997 that expired.

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Aug 1999. I’ve not looked in that account in ages!

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September 4, 1998.

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December 6, 1996

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Thought it would have been older, April 2001. I only keep it for sentimental and spam purposes. That’s three months before I joined the SDMB, and the year before my oldest Yahoo account.

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May 16, 1996.

Before Microsft bought it.

Funny thing was that at the time it was unthinkable to waste characters on full name as email name so I simply used 8 characters longt username from my college Unisys system.

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July 22, 1998

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November 15, 1996. I think that was pre-microsoft.

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July 1998, early enough so that my surname alone serves as the address.

My daughter scored that privilege with gmail, however.

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Just since Dec 2000, I wonder how to find out how old my yahoo is? I got it when it used to be rocketmail.

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April 04, 1997

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I might have had a pretty old one, as soon as Hotmail was out, but…forgot my passwords ages ago and doubt I could log in, or that the accounts exist anymore. Switched when GMail did their beta thing.

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Sept 12, 1998. Second time I created an account with the same login, since the first one expired from non-use.

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I just half-heartedly tried to resuscitate my circa 1998 hotmail account, but no dice. Oh well, I don’t mind, but it was a pretty cool address - implementation@hotmail.com. I don’t remember why I chose that word as my username.

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December 05, 1998

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October, 1997

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February 13, 1999

About a week after I got my first computer and the Internet. I was 15 y.o. Neat!

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August 7, 1998
My Ebay account goes to Sept 15, 1999, FWIW.