That’s what my roommate uses. She is early 30s. Doesn’t talk on the phone either. I learned to use Discord to converse with her. She didn’t feel the need to learn any new mode to converse with me.
If I email her, I tell her via Discord that it is there, otherwise it might never be read. Then I mutter at her to get off my lawn.
But I want to know if there are any real reasons to “Get with it, Pops” and upgrade to gmail.
Are there security/storage/longevity issues with an aol or even Compuserve email?
( @ cs.com…that’s great! I want that and a MySpace page)
I also still have a Yahoo address. I was going to transfer everything over to the gmail address which is the same except for the domain name, but it kind of never really happened. So now I have to use both.
I tried Discord once to try to chat with a mobile game group. It confused me and made me feel old.
Yep, me too. It got better, ended up being another texting equivalent, with superfluous bells and whistles. Plus they have whims and ‘updates’, without warning. The ‘updates’ are more like upsets.
When i call my son, he prefers i use discord (which does voice calls as well as text chat) so he doesn’t have to hold a phone in his hand. He uses discord on his computer.
I communicate strictly through TikTok videos, NFTs and Wordle
I do have an AOL address I use for certain things, but my main email (outside of work, that is), is my @mac.com address. Modern by AOL standards, but old all the same.
Personally, I use a carrier pigeon and/or signal fires. I mean, if it ain’t broke…
I use gmail when emailing older folks. When I have to send something to one of my thirty-something-year-old kids (because it’s too freakin’ long to explain in a text), I text them to check their email.
With that in mind, who cares how old your email addresses are? The only people who use them are probably other people who are as old and as savvy as you are.
The exception to all this are the many medical offices that want your email address. Even the younger generation has to supply those. And I don’t think the automated systems care what your email address is, as long as it works.
I had a verizon account, but when I stopped using them for phone/TV/email I no longer had that email address.
At one point I was trying to log in for my retirement account info. Um, I had a verizon email at the time! So I totally get the idea of wanting to stick with one address. I mean if I buy something at Home Depot and they email me the receipt for warranty purposes…but it’s on the verizon account I no longer have…
And then there was the Betamax. Remember when Netscape ruled? What’s hot today might be extinct the next day.
My primary email is a Gmail account but I still hang onto my Yahoo! account that I’ve had I guess going on 25 years now. My mom made it for me when I was in middle school. She’s dead now so I guess it’s got some sentimental value. I still have some old emails from 2002 in there. A friend of mine still has a Hotmail account.
It doesn’t actually filter spam, it’s just that no self-respecting spammer bothers to send anything to a cs.com address. 
Laugh, son, laugh, but you wouldn’t believe the size of my penis.
Because he doesn’t know how to measure using nanometers?
Is it mightier than a sword?
I’ve had aol.com since 1996 or 1997, also. As long as it’s functional, I will use it.
I moved my blog OFF of Live Journal. I had some problems signing on, and then I found out the web site had been acquired by some Russians.
~VOW
To me, “legacy” implies something inherited from a defunct service provider or that otherwise might soon disappear. On the other hand, if your e-mail address from 1985 is still going strong, it’s just an email address, not a “legacy”.
My main email address still is my first ever on a hotmail domain. I don’t see why that should be a problem, Microsoft still isn’t some obscure or defunct company and just renamed the service to outlook.com a few years ago. It always had a good spam filter, at least for me, and it still is good. I also have t-online.de and a yahoo.com (I had to subscribe to for getting a flickr account some 10 years ago) which may also out me as an old fart, but I don’t mind. The gmail.com email account I got when I had my first Android device I never use.
Who still has an e-mail address like
utzoo!ihnp4!sunnyvax!diogenes ?
I’ve had my own domain for over 20 years and always use that. However, it’s not got a web interface, I use Eudora on my PC to access it, so it’s largely useless for on the go. That never used to be a problem, but it’s increasingly becoming one, so I may have to transfer it to be checked on Gmail, if that’s at all a thing you can do.
My oldest email I can still access is from Yahoo, but I don’t use it. (Before that I always just used the one from my ISP from the school.) My main email is Gmail, but I do have a Hotmail account which I created because my usual username was in use on Gmail. (Or, possibly, it wouldn’t give it to me because I used that same username on YouTube.)
My first email address was from the school ISP, and was quite long. flastname@astrologysign.nonprofit.k12.ar.us. The astrology sign was the name of their dialup server, which changes over time. Nonprofit is the name of who actually ran the server. The rest just means it’s part of an Arkansas public school district.