My oldest active email is from roadrunner in the late ninties. My first email was a uucp account from around 1985.
{decvax!ucf-cs, ihnp4!pesnta, vax135!petsd}!peora!joel
My first email address was a .edu which I had at school from 1986 - 1990. During those 4 years, my combined total of sent and received emails was less than 10. The only people I knew with email were other Comp Sci majors and professors. I probably only emailed professors about assignments.
Now at work, I sometimes receive 10 emails in one minute. I don’t have any addresses that have been active for a long time.
My first email was in college, vintage 1982. I got my first non-school email in 1985 on; lastname@decvax, which was real handy since everyone could reach me easily.
“I have an email account dating from 1932!” he said boldly.
/me looks slowly from left to right …
“What?”
My current main e-mail address is from 1993, lastname@myworkplace(university).
My first awareness of e-mail dates back to 1983/84, when I had to deal with a student who was in love with a girl in another country. I got complaints from the university computer center that this guy was responsible for the majority of the e-mail traffic on their server, and had to tell him that daily email messages were too much.
My first was a CompuServe addy in the mid 70s. My current one is also a CompuServe addy that I got in the 80s.
Hotmail since 1995. Still use it, too.
The oldest saved email I can find on my Yahoo account, which I still use on a daily basis, is from July 2001. But I know I’ve had the account longer than that - probably from the mid-90’s would be my guess.
I signed up for my current e-mail address in 1995. I’ve gathered a few others over the years, but this has always been my main (non-work) point of contact.
-D/a
I had some sorta email address thingy for a short time back in 88 or so. Another one from 90 to 94 ( I think). These first two were such a pain in the ass that I used them as little as possible and now I can’t even remember exactly what they were or were like (info was sent too and fro… in some fashion). The first real solid for sure it was an honest to goodness email one was circa 1995 on AOL.
Oh, and there was another PITA one circa 1983.
Hotmail launched in July of 1996.
Didn’t get my first email address until either fifth or sixth grade, which means 1995 or 1996, and I don’t even still have that one, so I know I’m not going to win.
It was one of those really long ones that secondary schools used: flastname@computername.buildingname.k12.state.country. I had no desire to keep it even if I could have after I no longer had an account with the school ISP.
Hotmail since 1996. Still use it, too.
Wikipedia says Yahoo Mail launched in October 1997.
I have used the same Yahoo account since 1999.
I’m pretty sure they had beta accounts before that, but perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me. It’s seems unlikely that they would have had 3 years of beta.
Memory does play tricks. Yahoo didn’t develop its own web-based email, it bought Rocket Mail in October 1997. Hotmail and Rocket Mail were the pioneers of web-based email, and both launched in 1996. It seems unlikely that anyone had a non-ISP address before that.
AOL address from ca. 1993 – quite gone. Hotmail address from about 1997 – likewise gone. University address from 1999 – they finally got around to purging it about three years after I graduated. I have a Gmail account from the invitation-only beta in 2004 that I still use. I have absolutely no idea how many random spam-catch throwaway email addresses I’ve created over the years.
The two most recent email addresses I’ve acquired are actually the SMS gateway to my phone, which is the number @tmomail.net, and the email address that goes to my new Kindle.
I joined AOL with my first PC back in '94. Hence, my user name here. Couldn’t find any variation of my name so I just shortened it & added the current year. That was back in the dial-up day using their “flash sessions” that would go in, grab your e-mail, then disconnect. The hubby & I dropped AOL when Earthlink came around, so I changed my e-mail address but kept the familiar name. So there.
Now I learn that a year appended to your name in most cases either designates when you were born or your age. NEITHER!