# A friendly Challenge - SD's oldest Hotmail account
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 22, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959 "2012-06-22T17:10:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/1 "2012-06-22T17:10:14Z")
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 š upper right corner of hotmail screen, click your name, and select account. When was yours created?
Oldest account gets SD bragging rights. š
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/2 "2012-06-22T17:16:51Z")
Hotmail used to have a different name before Microsoft bought it. Anyone recall what it was?
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/3 "2012-06-22T17:20:38Z")
According to Wikipedia, it was ā[HoTMaiL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail)ā.
My current account was created December 20, 2000, but I had one from at least 1997 that expired.
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### Author:  [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/4 "2012-06-22T17:22:59Z")
Aug 1999. Iāve not looked in that account in ages!
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### Author:  [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/5 "2012-06-22T17:26:39Z")
September 4, 1998.
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### Author:  [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/6 "2012-06-22T17:29:00Z")
December 6, 1996
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/7 "2012-06-22T17:47:37Z")
Thought it would have been older, April 2001. I only keep it for sentimental and spam purposes. Thatās three months before I joined the SDMB, and the year before my oldest Yahoo account.
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### Author:  [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/8 "2012-06-22T18:29:02Z")
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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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/9 "2012-06-22T18:34:55Z")
July 22, 1998
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### Author:  [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/10 "2012-06-22T18:49:04Z")
November 15, 1996. I think that was pre-microsoft.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/11 "2012-06-22T20:03:13Z")
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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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/12 "2012-06-22T20:44:58Z")
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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### Author:  [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/13 "2012-06-23T00:23:42Z")
April 04, 1997
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/14 "2012-06-23T00:35:20Z")
I might have had a pretty old one, as soon as Hotmail was out, butā¦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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### Author:  [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/15 "2012-06-23T00:38:17Z")
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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### Author:  [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/16 "2012-06-23T01:28:37Z")
I just half-heartedly tried to resuscitate my circa 1998 hotmail account, but no dice. Oh well, I donāt mind, but it was a pretty cool address - [implementation@hotmail.com](mailto:implementation@hotmail.com). I donāt remember why I chose that word as my username.
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### Author:  [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/17 "2012-06-23T03:07:53Z")
December 05, 1998
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### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/18 "2012-06-23T03:16:06Z")
October, 1997
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### Author:  [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/19 "2012-06-23T03:20:38Z")
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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### Author:  [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-challenge-sds-oldest-hotmail-account/625959/20 "2012-06-24T00:22:37Z")
August 7, 1998
My Ebay account goes to Sept 15, 1999, FWIW.
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