I got AOL in 1995. This means that I got one of the early login names. Like if I were tom smith mine would be tsmith@aol.com rather than the tsmith823@aol.com
This means that I get a lot of email for other people. People forget to put on the numeric extension, or they add aol.com when they meant fredsdrycleaning.com or well, whatever.
This has made for some interesting times of the years.
I got (and still have) one of the first hotmail accounts.
I remember getting it sometime in mid 1996, and Wiki says hotmail was launched on 7/4/96.
I remember having aol back then, too, and logging onto the “world wide web” using a 14.4 baud modem, or some such thingy.
I didn’t get mine until 1999. 
I got my Hotmail account in early fall of '96; I remember setting it up in the brand new computer lab in college. I gave it up a while back for Gmail because the spam was ridiculous. I login every once and a while to check it because I’ve had old college friends email me there in the past.
I have a still-active Juno account from the summer of '96, and archived e-mails from a free Prodigy account in the mid-'90s.
I’ve had one work account since at least 1996, and I still have all that mail going back to 1996 in Eudora.
My Hotmail account I’ve had for a very long time, not exactly sure how long because the bastards emptied my account when I didn’t log on for a while. Hotmail is mainly my “throw-away” account, Gmail is my personal account now.
Aww! I met my oldest friend, zyzzyva on Prodigy back in, oof, 1993 or so. I still keep in touch with another friend I met back then. I remember when they started charging for email, or when they switched to hourly fees (I forget which), a bunch of us shared the username/password for one account. Then we’d send email to that one account, which would bounce back (since it was sent to itself) and we’d use it like a message board and avoid the per email charge!
I definitely had mine in 1996 and still use it as a fall-back address now when my others are malfunctioning. I can’t remember the month I got it though. I wonder if they have the original signing up date there someplace. It’s a bit like having an old fashioned phone or a vintage car.
I remember seeing/hearing about ‘Hotmail’ for the first time and thinking it was something risqué.
I never got my first email account until 1999, and that was only because i was going on a research trip for a professor and needed a way to be in easy contact with him while i was away. It was a Hotmail account, and i let it lapse as soon as i got my own university email account.
I’ve been using that account as my main account now since the end of 2000, and i have every single email that i’ve sent and received during that time (well, i delete my SDMB subscribed thread notifications, and spam).
I set up a GMail account a couple of years back, and i tend to use that for things that might lead to spam. That way, i avoid getting too much spam in my main account.
Me too–I think I signed up in '96, but something tells me it was just a little earlier than that–I’m thinking October or November of '95. Of course, I can’t prove, it because I lost the e-mail, but oh well. . .
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Hell, I didn’t even learn about the Dope until '96.
I’m still in touch with my ARPAnet buddies. Boy we really thought noocuelar war was in the offing. 
I got my first Hotmail account in 1998. I still use it, along with two others, and two Gmail accounts.
It took me a few minutes to crack the address and password of my Hotmail account. Violinplayer13, well, that’s how old I was, indeed. 21 now, so I’ve “had” that account for 8 years. 6 pages of messages from iwon.com, the American Family Association, and Major League Baseball. Yep, it’s apparently been one of my spambuckets for when I was required to provide an email address.
I use Yahoo! and Gmail for my spam and real email now, respectively. Before I got the Hotmail address, ISTR the same username with Mindspring, and I’m pretty sure I got my first AOL screen name when I was 10 or 11. Couldn’t get into those anymore if I wanted to, though.
I can’t really remember, but I think my hotmail address must’ve been from 1997. I know that’s when I started my first job as a website designer, so it was probably either at, or just before, that time.
Hmmm, I had one of the original Columbus Freenet accounts in 1994. Later I had a Compuserve account. Used a roommate’s e-mail account prior to 1994 for maybe a year or so. I think my Hotmail account only goes back to about 1999 when I got broadband.
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I have the former, but not the latter. I’ve got myname @ hotmail.com (since about '97, I think, no old emails to tell me), myname @ gmail.com, @aol.com and @yahoo.com (all unused), Myspace, www.myname.co.uk etc. etc. etc. www.myname.com is available but I can’t be bothered. I’m pretty sure I’m the only person with my combination of first and surnames in the world.
I had mine for so long I can’t remember. When I first started with Hotmail it was so early that I was able to create accounts with firstname.lastname@hotmail.com, firstinitial.secondinitial.lastname@hotmail.com and the variants with underscores. Although I was constantly telling people about the wonders of email I didn’t get any, no-one else had accounts there was no advertising, no spamming. I would forget my password and create a new account. Then it suddenly took off and I could no longer get any approximation of my name and switched to nonsense anonymity. I’ve had the same account since.
Aha. According to the new fancy way that Hotmail’s set up, it includes the date of when I first joined: 2 October, 1998
My brother’s aol account is still active, technically (he doesn’t use it anymore, but still has the name registered to him, email forwarded and free access). He was using it before 1992. And, having just checked, it is still not rejecting mail.
Wow, your post inspired me to do some digging, and after a few false starts, i was able to get into my old Hotmail account. I hadn’t used it since 2000, and assumed that it had been reclaimed and snapped up by someone else (i have a fairly common name), but there it was. There were no messages in it at all, as i had completely cleaned it out before abandoning. It’s nice having it available, because it gets no spam, and it’s a good address (first initial second initial lastname at hotmail).