Where? I had a quick look on mine but couldn’t find a join-up date.
Gmail.
I never let mine lapse, partly for odd sentimental reasons, partly in case someone who only has that address from way back when sends me a message - it still happens from time to time.
I’ve always had a main account (in 1996 we also got work e-mail accounts, and subsequently btinternet at home) and used hotmail when travelling - that was before webmail. Once I got onto Gmail, it became my main account, and as I said, I keep hotmail and check it just frequently enough to keep it from lapsing.
I got firstinitialmiddleinitiallastname@hotmail.com but my name is unusual so even if I registered today I’d probably still get it - I have the same ID for Gmail.
Incidentally, my first work e-mail address from 1996 has never been cancelled even though I haven’t been a permanent staff member since 2000 - but I still work for them on short contracts/consultancies, and they have reactivated the
firstinitiallastname@organisationname.org.uk account successfully every time. I’m working for them again at the moment and get stuff from mailing lists I was on over a decade ago, as well as things like CNN alerts on Haiti from when I was working there (2004/5).
I’ve had my Yahoo account since May 7, 1998. It’s pretty amazing since I had applied and gotten “[username]2” where as now, I probably couldn’t get the same username unless it was followed by at least 3 digits.
I went to inbox/options/more options/view and edit your personal information.
My join up date was July 29, 1998
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing…I first got it when it was still AOL for DOS…this was back in mid-1991; I had just left home for college…it was an hourly rate, so thank god there wasn’t the massive porn there is today or I would have gone bankrupt! I got my real name (because even though I got my real name, all the Star Wars names, my first choices, were already taken - I think they were the first to go.) It’s still my primary account, even though I quit subscribing a year or two back, and I still get mail for other people, some of who have threatened me for “stealing someone else’s mail.”
Man, I never really thought about it before, but I’ve had that address for over 16 years now…wow…
Bingo! October 30th 1997 - almost 10 years ago to the day, and just before I went to work in Central America for two months - I remember using it from there - but it wasn’t 1996 after all. It was the work account that dates back to 1996.
May 7, 1997. I seem to recall that I signed up because I was about to move to another state and wanted an address I could carry from one location to another.
I hardly ever check it now; no one writes me at that address. I do find it interesting that there’s a screenwriters’ mailing list I signed up for way back in '97 or so, and I still have a few e-mails from them every time I log into the Hotmail account.
I still have my hotmail account from way back in 97/98. I can’t determine the exact start date as the early emails were in the small inbox period and got dumped regularly. Sadly, the emails from my g/f in the early days of our relationship all got wiped when I broke the 30 day deadline for logging in :rolleyes:
I have my emails from 1991 on.
There’s a gap between 1993-94. Those were lost.
Thanks I would have never found that!
Registered since: April 15, 1997
Do I win? 
Damn! You’ve made me look, and found that I was mistaken on myself:
Well, here’s to next year. ::cheers::
Tripler
But I can prove on another site ‘1995’.